Contact: Habib Dagher, (207) 581-2138 Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center and private company Advanced Infrastructure Technologies LLC (AIT) are talking with a Russian company about exporting UMaine’s Bridge-in-a-BackpackTM technology to Russia for use in preparation for increased traffic related to the 2014 Winter […]
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CompositesWorld.com noted a recent story in the Boston Globe which highlighted UMaine’s bridge-in-a-backpack technology.
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A recent meeting at UMaine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole about Maine’s oyster industry was the subject of an article in Fenceviewer.com. Oyster growers and state officials discussed an oyster disease that, while not lethal to humans, could affect the oyster market.
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UMaine political scientist Amy Fried was quoted in a Maine Media column on downeast.com about the growth of political blogs in Maine. Fried said openly partisan political blogs are a return to the time when newspapers were openly partisan, which many were until the early 20th century.
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — The University of Maine Page Farm and Home Museum has announced two popular annual holiday activities, a series of wreath-making workshops Nov. 27, Dec. 1 and Dec. 2, and Ye Olde Holiday Shoppe artisan and crafter sale on Saturday, Dec. 4. The public is invited to participate in wreath-making […]
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Today’s edition of the Bangor Daily News includes a news release about UMaine business and marketing professor Paul Myer and graduate student Kathy Welch embarking on a collaborative market study with merchants in downtown Orono. The object, Myer says, is to consider new ways to capitalize on the synergy between the University of Maine and […]
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Slate columnist Jack Shafer uses research by UMaine journalism professor to counter opinions offered by former ABC journalist Ted Koppel in a Sunday Washington Post column on the current state of television journalism. In that piece, Koppel writes that network news divisions were “loss leader(s) that permitted NBC, CBS and ABC to justify the enormous […]
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Contact: Theresa McManus, 581-2441 Children who attend the Child Development Learning Center in Merrill Hall are collecting food donations for the Black Bear Food Exchange on campus. The Exchange, located at the back of Estabrooke Hall, is a food pantry that serves the UMaine and surrounding communities. Those who would like to donate are asked […]
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By Jessica Bloch (207) 581-3777 The troop battalion that went into battle this morning has been ravaged by losses. The surviving soldiers are hungry and tired. War weary. And there are no reinforcements in sight. After walking miles, the battalion comes upon a farmhouse recently vacated by enemy sympathizers. Here for the first time in […]
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President Obama has appointed 1971 UMaine graduate Pamela White ambassador to The Ghana. White is an Auburn native who earned a UMaine journalism degree before embarking on a career in public service that began with work as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. She joined the U.S. Agency for International Development in 1978, serving in […]
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