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UMaine News - Wednesday, July 23-Thursday, July 24, 2008
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Kinnison Paper Recognized by ScienceWatch.com |
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Associate Professor Michael Kinnison in
the UMaine School of Biology and Ecology is the coauthor
of a paper identified by ScienceWatch.com as the highest
cited core paper in one of its
“Fast
Moving Fronts.”
Fast moving fronts are areas of research that show the
greatest synergistic citation activity within 22 major
fields ranging from agriculture to space science. The
paper, “Contemporary
Evolution Meets Conservation Biology,”
by Craig Stockwell of North Dakota State University,
Andrew Hendry of McGill University and Kinnison,
published in February 2003 in the journal
“Trends
in Ecology and Evolution,”
was identified as the highest cited core paper from
2002-08 in the area of
“rapid
climate change,”
the fastest moving front within the field of plant and
animal sciences. Their paper provides a synthesis of
evolutionary theory and conservation biology by
considering how many of the factors causing species
declines, including environmental change, also promote
contemporary evolution in ways that can either aid or
hinder management.
A complete list of ScienceWatch.com Fast Moving Fronts,
including comment by Kinnison and his two colleagues, is
on the Web. ScienceWatch.com is a science trends
Web site published by Thomson Reuters, which also issues
the database Web of Science and the research performance
resource Essential Science Indicators. |
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Study Outlines Biorefinery Potential for Maine Pulp Mills |
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Incorporating biorefineries into suitable
pulp mills in Maine could help to wean the state from its
crippling dependence on imported fossil fuels while also
allowing it to maintain its traditional manufacturing
base, according to a study released recently by the
University of Maine’s
Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. In the "Maine
Bioproducts Business Pathway" report, research associate
Kate Dickerson outlines in detail how the six mills in
Maine that use the kraft pulping process could integrate
technology developed at UMaine to produce valuable
ethanol and acetic acid from woody biomass without
degrading the quality of the pulp they make. |
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Food Drive Results |
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Employees across the campus generously
supported a food drive recently organized by UMaine
Printing Services and Mailing Services, resulting in the
donation of nine boxes of food to the Crossroads
Ministries Food Pantry in Old Town. Departments across
campus put out central collection boxes during the month
of June and Mailing Services carriers collected donations
at the end of the month. Deering Hall, home of Plant,
Soil and Environmental Sciences and the Natural Resources
degree program, collected the most donations, according
to Printing Services. |
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Dagher Testimony News Reports |
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Wednesday's Bangor Daily News includes a story
about Tuesday's U.S. Senate testimony by UMaine Prof.
Habib Dahger, director of the Advanced Engineered Wood
Composites Center. Addressing energy security before the
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government
Affairs, Dagher detailed the potential of offshore wind
power as part of the way to develop energy independence.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is the ranking Republican
member of the committee.
The Korean news service Digital Chosunibo has a story
about the testimony, which also featured oil magnate T.
Boone Pickens, on its Web site. Stories about Pickens'
comments appear on hundreds of other news Web sites,
including those of the
Boston Globe,
Los Angeles Times and
Houston Chronicle. |
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Bushway Writing Project Featured Globally |
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Comments from Al Bushway of the UMaine
Food Science and Human Nutrition faculty are included in
an Atlanta Journal Constitution story examining the best
ways to wash produce. |
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Lobster College News Release on Press Herald Web Site |
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The UMaine news release about Lobster
College, a September education and outreach program
presented by UMaine's Lobster Institute, is on the
Portland Press Herald's mainetoday.com Web site.
An Associated Press version of the story also generated
coverage on WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland), in the
Boston Globe, on
WNBC television in New York and other newspapers
and news stations around the U.S. |
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