Comments from Deb Neuman, director of UMaine’s Target Technology Incubator, are included in a front-page Thursday Bangor Daily News story about Wednesday’s Invention to Venture conference. The UMaine technology incubator organized the conference, held in Orono. Under Secretary of Commerce David Kappos spoke at the conference, lauding Maine and its people for the “can-do attitude” […]
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UMaine Prof. Irv Kornfield is featured in a WABI television story about his work helping the Maine Warden Service investigate illegal hunting cases. Working in UMaine’s Wildlife Forensic DNA lab, Kornfield assesses evidence and matches animal DNA in ways that help law enforcement officials investigate and prosecute these crimes.
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Contact: Jim Settele, 581-1835 “The Promise & Problems of Transparency” is the title of the William S. Cohen Papers Forum 2010 on Friday, Nov. 12, featuring a panel of journalists, government representatives and academics discussing an issue of importance to Maine’s former U.S. Representative, Senator and Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, a Bangor native. […]
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The University of Maine Museum of Art has created the Photo National 2011 exhibition to run June 23 – September 17, 2011. This highly competitive exhibition will feature a survey of contemporary photography from throughout the United States. The exhibition will be juried by George Kinghorn, director and curator of the University of Maine Museum […]
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Contact: Jim Settele, (207) 581-1835 The UMaine School of Policy and International Affairs will host Ambassador John K. Veroneau, former Deputy United States Trade Representative and a University of Maine alumnus, Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. in the D.P. Corbett Business Building for a discussion on the law and politics of a global economy. He […]
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Knud Hermansen of the UMaine engineering faculty provided expertise that helped the town of Minot settle a dispute over a building permit. The town’s board of appeals voted on Tuesday night to reverse a previous decision and grant a land developer permission to build on a lot located beyond the end of York Road.
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UMaine’s Sea Grant Program is teaming up with the Department of Marine Resources and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute on a series of meetings around the state to focus and encourage research in areas of importance to the sustainability of Maine’s marine resources, according to a story on the website fenceviewer.com. The first meeting, […]
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The science, physics and technology website Physorg.com has a story about a new piece of equipment that will be up and running at UMaine next fall. UMaine is gaining a superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer, known as a SQUID magnetometer, which will make it possible for faculty members in several science disciplines to perform high-resolution […]
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Contact: Vicky Blanchette 581-2204 or 944-2695 The College of Engineering at the University of Maine is holding an event today at 3 p.m. to dedicate the Alton ’38 and Adelaide Hamm Student Design Project Laboratory. The dedication will be held in Room 1 of Boardman Hall. The donor, Alton Hamm, will arrive about 2:30 p.m. […]
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Contact: Lauren Wagner, 581-1796 ORONO — The UMaine Bodwell Center for Service & Volunteerism, Phi Gamma Delta and Crossroads Ministries have joined together again to collect holiday gifts for families in the greater Old Town-Orono-area facing hard times as the holidays approach. The Holiday Sharing Program and “A FIJI Christmas” effort is unique, confidential and […]
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