Sara Flanagan, University of Maine assistant professor of special education, and Rachel Brown-Chidsey, assistant professor of special education at the University of Southern Maine, have an article in the new edition of Maine Educator, the magazine of the Maine Education Association, titled “Dyslexia 101: Questions & Answers for Educators.” Dyslexia is the most common type […]
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Ambrook Research featured YongJiang “John” Zhang, assistant professor of plant physiology at the University of Maine, and his research on how biochar may be used to improve moisture retention in Maine’s wild blueberry fields.
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News Center Maine and WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) reported on the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab receiving $6.2 million in one-time federal spending as part of the omnibus spending bill approved by Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in December. The funding, which was part of a $53 million package of […]
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Stephanie Shea spoke with the Bangor Daily News about a study she led as a University of Maine Ph.D. student to determine the prevalence of Lymphoproliferative virus (LPDV) among Maine wild turkeys and the factors that can influence their chance of infection. All of the turkeys that tested positive for the virus during the study […]
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In an article about Caribou’s first snowmobile festival and its prospective economic impact, the Bangor Daily News cited a 2020 University of Maine study titled “The Economic Contribution of Snowmobiling in Maine.”
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Salimeh Sekeh wants to help humanity — and she sees artificial intelligence as a key way to do that. At the University of Maine, Sekeh is leading research that designs machine learning models and teaches artificial intelligence to essentially improve itself, which will have impactful applications in Maine and beyond. Before Sekeh joined the University […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported that the University of Maine will receive $6.2 million in federal funding to research ways to control tick populations, identify emerging tick species and expand public health efforts as Lyme disease cases have reached record-high levels in Maine. Griffin Dill, director of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Tick Lab, […]
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The Bangor Daily News, News Center Maine, MaineBiz, CentralMaine.com, Lincoln County News, Morning Ag Clips, WMAZ-TV (Channel 13 in Macon, Georgia) Spud Smart, Potato Pro, Potato News Today and Potato Grower reported that researchers at the University of Maine are currently exploring whether lobster shells can be used to combat soil pathogens like early dying […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Piscataquis Observer reported that researchers from the University of Maine and Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife are working together to develop new resources that will support current and future management strategies for wild turkey populations in the state. Building on the last project, the team now aims to […]
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The Williston Observer, the Citizen, the Colchester Sun and the Milton Independent featured research from the University of Maine that examined animal personalities by looking at “synzoochory,” the dispersal of seeds by seed-caching animals.
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