UMaine in the News

BDN interviews Fanning on pollinators

Bangor Daily News interviewed Phillip Fanning, assistant professor of agriculture entomology at the University of Maine, on the pollination process of bees. In Maine, there are 90 native pollinators that visit wild and cultivated flowering plants. All of them are far more efficient at pollination than domestic honey bees. “Our best pollinators are bumble bees. […]

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Eos highlights Laatsch’s team preparing for total solar eclipse

Eos highlighted Shawn Laatsch, director of the Versant Power Astronomy Center at the University of Maine, participating in the total solar eclipse by helping coordinate the Citizen Continental America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) 2024 project. The effort, which builds on a similar project conducted around the 2017 total solar eclipse, is looking to place roughly 35 […]

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Sentry promotes Maine Big Night

The South Portland Sentry interviewed Greg LeClair, University of Maine Ph.D. student and founder of Maine Big Night, regarding the impact of the event. Maine Big Night is a nonprofit community science project established to help save amphibians from getting hit by cars on roads. It is a community-driven effort, spearheaded by volunteers dedicated to […]

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Mainebiz promotes UMaine’s Hotel Ursa grand opening

Mainebiz promoted Hotel Ursa, the first hotel on the campus of a Maine public college, opening  at the University of Maine. Hotel Ursa has 95 guest rooms, a cafe and a bar, among other offerings. The hotel was developed through a historic rehabilitation of two original buildings on campus, Coburn Hall and Holmes Hall, and […]

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New research on wearable sensors from UMaine highlighted by Fox 22

WFVX (Fox 22 in Bangor) highlighted research from University of Maine students and assistant professor of chemical engineering Evan Wujcik that aimed to make wearable sensor technology more comfortable and reliable. The team of researchers created a prototype of a wearable sensor system that can repair itself like skin by reattaching pieces that tear. “Those […]

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Maine Monitor interviews UMaine Machias’ Beal on wild mussels

University of Maine at Machias cooperating professor of marine ecology Brian Beal, who is also the volunteer director of research at the Downeast Institute, was interviewed by The Maine Monitor on the disappearance of wild mussels. Beal said the decrease in the presence of wild mussels could be caused directly or indirectly by warming ocean […]

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New USDA PFAS research center at UMaine highlighted by E&E News, BDN

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is launching a new center for researching and finding solutions to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are found in Maine’s water and land and have been linked to liver disease and high cholesterol, at the University of Maine. E & E News by Politico and the Bangor Daily News […]

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