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On some days, it seems that mallards outnumber people on campus. Dozens of ducks congregate around Lake Andrews, colloquially known as “the Puddle,” for most of the year. Mallards use the reeds, cattails and low-lying shrubs around the Puddle as cover on the shore, venturing out in large groups to forage for food. They are,...
Andree Kehn/Sun Journal Published on December 17, 2020 On a Monday in early November, Associate Professor of Biology Brett Huggett was listening in on the state’s daily COVID-19 briefing, when a term used by Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, caught his attention: ultra-cold storage. That day, Nov. 9, Pfizer had just announced extremely positive findings from its early analysis of its coronavirus vaccine. And already, Shah was planning, in what Mainers had come to know as his cautiously optimistic way, to be ready if the vaccine was a...