State Rep. Emily Cain, whose legislative district includes UMaine’s Orono property, has been elected minority leader of the Maine House of Representatives. Cain, who is a UMaine graduate, is pursuing a UMaine degree and she serves as coordinator of advancement in the Honors College. A Maine Today Media (Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Central Maine […]
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Comments from UMaine Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Robert Dana are included in a Friday Central Maine Morning Sentinel story about alcoholic energy drinks. The Food and Drug Administration has issued warnings about these drinks, marketed under brand names such as Four Loko and Joose.
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The Emergency Management news Web site features a story about bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed in UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. “The new technology could be one way to help rebuild the country’s bridge infrastructure, which has scored poorly in recent years on an annual report card of their integrity,” the story notes.
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News included a story about UMaine plans to develop a Biomechanics Laboratory for Injury Reduction and Rehabilitation. The project, funded by a $533,000 Maine Technology Asset Fund grant, will use state-of-the-art crash test dummies to test equipment designed to prevent head injuries. The newspaper story is based on a UMaine news release.
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You’ve seen plenty of bumper stickers urging people to save the whales. But what about the lobsters? In the ocean, lobster larvae have a survival rate of less than 0.1 percent in the first three months. It’s a wonder any full-grown lobsters make it to the trap, let alone the dinner table. Aquaculturists have tried […]
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Contact: Vicky Blanchette, 581-2204 ORONO — The University of Maine College of Engineering has selected former faculty member Lawrence L. Kazmerski, now the executive director of the Science and Technology Partnerships at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo., to receive the 2010 the Edward T. Bryand Distinguished Engineering […]
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A Thursday Bangor Daily News story reports on a $500,000 Maine Technology Asset Fund grant to UMaine to establish a center for research, testing and education related to animal diseases. More details are in a UMaine news release.
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Thursday’s Bangor Daily News includes a report on a Wednesday hearing held by the UMaine Faculty Senate’s Program Creation and Reorganization Review Committee. The session was intended to gather public feedback about the proposal to suspend UMaine’s Dept. of Public Administration. Several members of the UMaine community, including faculty members in that department, spoke at […]
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A Thursday Bangor Daily News story provides details about Wednesday’s Greater Bangor Chamber of Commerce meeting about biomedical research collaborations in the region. The story includes comments from UMaine President Bob Kennedy, who was one of three featured speakers at the event.
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Vice President for Administration and Finance Janet Waldron is reminding members of the University of Maine community that today is the 35th anniversary of the Great American Smokeout, and that the campus is just weeks away from becoming a smoke-free environment, joining some 400 other colleges and universities around the country. Information about the new […]
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