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Pay
Dirt -
May /
June 2009 |
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The Maine Compost School’s lessons in how to efficiently manage
organic waste have increasing economic and environmental ripple
effects for businesses and communities in the state and beyond. |
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Turbulent
Lives -
May /
June 2009 |
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Marine scientists at the University of Maine are exploring the role
of cell shape in phytoplankton ecology, hoping to better understand
how the diversity affects function. |
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Agents
of Change -
May /
June 2009 |
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On the arid coast of southern Peru, anthropologist Gregory Zaro
studies the desertification of what was once farmland, hoping to
better understand the role of humans and climate change in the
landscape’s evolution. |
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Operation
Robot -
March /
April 2009 |
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In Maine's first
biomedical engineering laboratory, robotic devices are the building
blocks of technology that has the potential to help revolutionize
human surgical procedures. |
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The
Big Switcheroo -
March /
April 2009 |
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Since 1987, biochemist
Mary Rumpho-Kennedy has been studying sea slugs to unlock the
evolutionary secrets of photosynthesis in an animal through
symbiosis and gene transfer. |
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The
Mighty Cranberry - January / February 2009 |
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Food scientist Vivian
Wu's research on cranberries is part of the ongoing fight to keep
humans safe from food-borne illnesses. |
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Traceable
Bombs - January / February 2009 |
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Engineers Paul Millard
and Mauricio Pereira da Cunha are developing biological taggants to
enable law enforcement officials investigating terrorist bombings to
determine where the explosive materials were manufactured. |
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Taking
Stock -
November / December 2008 |
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Yong Chen has developed
complex, cutting-edge computer modeling to assess the stocks of a
variety of marine species from lobsters to sea cucumbers. |
