A Bangor Daily News story about a planned $40 million boiler-turbine project at the Verso Paper Co. mill in Bucksport included comments about the company’s work with UMaine researchers to develop new projects in order to remain profitable in the paper market. Verso spokesman Bill Cohen said UMaine is doing research in Orono and tests […]
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WABI television broadcast Saturday reports about weekend UMaine events. One story described Culturefest, UMaine’s annual celebration of diversity in its community. The other story reported on Girl Scouts from around Maine visiting UMaine to learn about engineering programs and opportunities.
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was quoted in an Associated Press story published in Sunday’s Laconia Citizen the York Weekly and other papers. The story looked at the impact of early voting on the Maine governor’s race. He also commented in a Maine Today Media report on Maine polling in the days […]
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Sunday’s Boston Globe included an Associated Press story featuring comments from UMaine chemistry professor Ray Fort. The story described research by Fort and his colleagues, who are testing a new process for extracting shikimic acid, an important ingredient in Tamiflu, from pine needles. At 6 p.m. Sunday, it was the most emailed story on the […]
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UMaine professor of soil science Ivan J. Fernandez, who recently received a distinguished lifetime appointment as a Class of 2010 fellow in the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), presented the Sergei A. Wilde Distinguished Lectureship in Forest Soils at the International Annual Meetings of the SSSA Nov. 3 in Long Beach, Ca. This is […]
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Contact: Vincent Caccese, (207) 581-2131 ORONO — Engineering researchers at the University of Maine are receiving more than $533,000 in grant funding to create a new biomechanical laboratory to help test and evaluate injury-reduction, repair and rehabilitation equipment under development by several small Maine companies. The lab will employ a family of state-of-the-art crash test […]
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Contact: Robert Causey, (207) 581-2782 ORONO — University of Maine animal and veterinary science researchers are receiving nearly $500,000 to establish a unique research, testing and education center that promises to substantially advance the diagnosis, treatment and understanding of particularly problematic animal diseases. The project, funded by a $497,392 Maine Technology Asset Fund grant, will […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at 581-3571 Note: a photo is available upon request. ORONO — A group of 56 UMaine students, joined by Bananas the Bear, UMaine Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Robert Dana and Senior Associate Dean of Students Kenda Scheele, brightened an otherwise-dreary afternoon by staging a Friday “flash mob” […]
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UMaine’s Malcolm Hunter, professor of wildlife resources and Libra Professor of Conservation Biology, traveled to Washington D.C. to give a Wednesday Nov. 3 talk at the National Conservation Leadership Forum. That is a group tasked by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with developing a “National Fish and Wildlife Climate Adaptation Strategy.”
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A Bloodhorse.com story describes concerns about drought-included conditions at the Churchill Downs race track in Kentucky, site of this weekend’s Breeders’ Cup. The story notes that UMaine engineering professor Mick Peterson, an expert on race track surfaces, has been consulting with track officials as they work to prepare the surface and that he will be […]
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