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Novel Partnership: Medical, Nursing Students Help COVID-Hit Maine Nursing Home
A nursing home in rural Maine has found a new partner after a difficult few weeks battling COVID-19 after months fighting the pandemic, which has killed more than a dozen of its residents. Nursing and medical students from the University of New England gained real-world experience they otherwise would not have had during the pandemic while the nursing home would...
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Medical Students Help Maine Nursing Home
A nursing home in Maine has found a new partner, the University of New England, after a difficult few weeks battling COVID-19.
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University of New England Plans to Reopen
Resuming on-campus classes is still up in the air for lots of colleges, but the University of New England in Maine has decided that classes will be back on campus as soon as summer.
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Shortage in Fish Used as Bait Could Impact Maine's Lobster Industry
Could a tiny fish be the reason your lobster roll costs just a little bit more? New quotas on herring are forcing Maine lobstermen to look at new types of bait to catch the crustaceans instead of traditional Atlantic herring.
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‘Surreal': Virtual Reality Simulation Shows What It's Like to Die
A new virtual reality simulation is helping hospice workers and medical students see what it’s like to die. An end-of-life simulation by Embodied Labs is now educating staff and students at the Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough, Maine. It’s also a required experience for medical students at the University of New England. Grant money awarded to UNE paid for...
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Scientists Studying White Sharks Find Another Off Maine
A marine scientist who is studying whether white sharks are becoming more common in Maine waters say he has detected one of the big sharks for the third time in three years. University of New England professor James Sulikowski says he learned last week that an acoustic receiver detected a 12-foot female white shark on Sept. 2 off Stratton Island.
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UNE Professor's Breast Cancer Biomarker Receives a Patent
A University of New England pharmacy professor has received a patent for an innovation in the early detection of breast cancer.
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Canadian Green Crabs With Bad Attitude Threaten Coastal System
Canadians are known as friendly folks, but these crabby brutes migrating from Canadian waters are better suited for the hockey rink. Green crabs from Nova Scotia are the same species as their cousins that already inhabit Maine waters, but are ornerier and angrier, threatening to accelerate harm to the coastal ecosystem by gobbling up soft-shell clams and destroying native eel...
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Turning Maine's Invasive Crab Problem Into a Potential Tasty Profit
Some scientists have a suggestion for pesky invasive green crabs that have been migrating to Maine waters and that is to eat them.
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Turning a Maine Problem Into a Potential Profit
Some scientists have a suggestion for pesky invasive green crabs that have been migrating to Maine waters and that is to eat them.
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Woman Spots Shark Off of Duxbury Beach in Mass.
There have been numerous shark sightings already this summer. The most recent sighting was Saturday off of Duxbury Beach in Massachusetts.
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Shark Sighting Off Maine Coast
A shark was sighted off the Maine coast by a U.S. Coast Guard vessel on Monday.
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Barbara Bush's Legacy Living on at Children's Hospital
The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital is a major part of the legacy Barbara Bush will leave behind, and patients are wishing the former first lady well amid news of her failing health.
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Stabbing Victim Describes Winchester Library Attack
77-year-old Lester Taber was one of several people who tried to stop a man from stabbing 22-year-old Deane Kenny Stryker at the Winchester Public Library on Saturday.
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Community Mourns 22-Year-Old Woman Killed in Winchester Public Library Double Stabbing
The community is mourning the loss of Deane Kenny Stryker, the woman killed in a double stabbing at a Massachusetts library.
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‘I Love You, Too!' Maine Marine Biologist Says Whale Protected Her From Shark
A marine biologist believes a humpback whale shielded her from a 15-foot tiger shark in the South Pacific. Nan Hauser said she didn’t understand the actions of the 25-ton whale that she met face-to-face in the Cook Islands. Then she saw the shark. She’s heard on a video telling the massive mammal, “I love you, too!” The encounter took place...
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Whale Protects Marine Biologist From Shark
A marine biologist from Maine believes a humpback whale shielded her from a 15-foot tiger shark in the South Pacific.
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‘I Love You, Too!' Maine Marine Biologist Says Whale Protected Her From Shark
A marine biologist believes a humpback whale shielded her from a 15-foot tiger shark in the South Pacific. Nan Hauser said she didn’t understand the actions of the 25-ton whale that she met face-to-face in the Cook Islands. Then she saw the shark. She’s heard on a video telling the massive mammal, “I love you, too!” The encounter took place...
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Scientists: More Great White Sharks Could Come to Maine Coast
A great white shark detected in waters off Maine could be a sign that the big fish will become a more common sight in the years to come, say scientists who study sharks in New England.
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How a Shark Researcher Is Putting Maine on the Map
When you think of sharks in New England, you may picture Great Whites off of Cape Cod. But a shark researcher at the University of New England is putting Maine on the map, shedding new light on a little-known species in the Gulf of Maine.