Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News reports on plans for a Thursday Aroostook County motorcade and funeral, honoring and remembering Marine Lt. James Zimmerman, who was killed last week while serving in Afghanistan. Zimmerman was a 2008 UMaine graduate, commissioned as a Marine officer upon completion of UMaine’s Navy ROTC program. The motorcade will begin in Smyrna, […]
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A Mainebiz story and a longer Bangor Daily News report describe UMaine plans to build a state-of-the-art aquaculture research laboratory on the university’s Orono campus. The Bangor Daily News story includes comments from Prof. Ian Bricknell, Libra Professor of Aquaculture Biology and director of UMaine’s Aquaculture Research Institute and Debbie Bouchard, manager of the Maine […]
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WABI television broadcast a Monday report about a UMaine chemistry research effort. A team led by professors Ray Fort and Barbara Cole, both of whom were interviewed in the story, are developing better ways to extract a specific acid from pine needles. That acid is a primary ingredient in Tamiflu, a medicine commonly used to […]
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Contact: Gretchen Gfeller, 581-1667 ORONO, Maine — Is your family name in the town report? Did it appear there in 1898? What did this mean? Do you still think of the annual reports prepared by towns in Maine as dull bureaucratic documents detailing arcane activities of municipal governments, of little interest to anyone except local […]
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Artist Reza Safavi (http://www.hi-reza.com/) will give a talk on Tuesday Nov. 9 at 7 p.m., in Room 100 Lord Hall. He will talk about his current interactive art projects and collaborations. Using a variety of media to create interactive displays, Safavi explores the ways in which technology influences human perceptions, social behavior and other aspects […]
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Contact: Robert Meulenberg, (207) 581-2245 or Robert.meulenberg@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine will by next summer have in place a state-of-the-art magnetometer with which it will be possible for faculty members in several science disciplines to perform high-resolution magnetic and electrical experiments. The superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer, known as a SQUID magnetometer, will reach temperatures […]
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The Midcoast Village Soup newspapers reported in the Herald Gazette recently that the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s 4-H Camp and Learning Centers at Tanglewood and Blueberry Cove have received a $20,000 donation from the Oct. 29 Wentworth Charities Golf Classic Tournament at the Samoset Report in Rockport. The donation will support a variety of […]
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Contact: Ethel Hill, 581-1834 The University of Maine’s Explorations Program for first-year students who are undecided about a major has received one of only three certificates of merit in the Academic Affairs category from the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). The association has more than 10,000 members in all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico and […]
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Contact: Beth Calder, 207-581-2791; George Manlove, 581-3756 With more than 62,000 people waking up in Maine this morning without electricity due to rain, sleet, snow and high winds overnight, University of Maine Cooperative Extension food science specialist Beth Calder offers advice on how to know if refrigerated or frozen foods are safe to eat after […]
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The Town Report Digitization Project was the subject of a Bangor Daily News story. UMaine’s Fogler Library is one of the partners on the project. Friends of Fogler Library is sponsoring a presentation about the project at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15., in the Special Collections Reading Room on the third floor of the library.
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