All UMaine graduate faculty members, graduate students with their families and support staff members are invited to the annual Graduate School picnic, Wednesday Sept. 14 from 4-6 p.m. This event is scheduled for the Stodder Hall patio, located on the building’s east side. The rain date is Thursday Sept. 16.
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Contact: Andrew Pershing, Research Scientist, 207-228-1656; Ron Lisnet, 207-581-3779 Decades of whaling and fishing for the largest species have altered the ability of oceans to store and sequester carbon, according to a team of marine researchers from the University of Maine, the University of British Columbia and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI). An […]
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Contact: Charlie Slavin, Dean of the Honors College, (207) 581-3262 slavin@honors.umaine.edu Emily Cain, Coordinator of Advancement, Honors College, (207) 58103308 emily.cain@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Two University of Maine Honors College students have been selected to each receive a $1,000 Charles V. Stanhope ’71 Study Abroad Fellowship to support them as they study abroad this academic year. […]
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Offshore Wind Wire, which tracks stories about wind energy, named University of Maine, including the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composite Center director Habib Dagher, a world leader in deepwater floating turbine technology. The Maine Public Utilities Commission released Wednesday a request for proposals for the state’s deepwater offshore wind pilot project.
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A hazing study conducted by UMaine professors Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden was mentioned in a blog posting about a rally in response to a fraternity hazing incident at the University of South Florida. The study found that more than half (55 percent) of students report they experienced a specific behavior that was defined as […]
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The Bangor Daily News wrote about a $12.3 million grant awarded to the UMaine-based Maine Center for Research in STEM Education, or RiSE, to redesign the physical science curriculum at 48 schools in Maine. The grant will be used to form the Maine Physical Sciences Partnership, which will create 12 jobs and generate curricula for […]
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Former Bangor High School student Rebecca Ye blogged about her work with UMaine food scientist Vivian Wu on a rapid method to detect E. coli O157:H7 in water, enabling quick corrective action to be taken in hours as opposed to days.
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UMaine biological oceanographer Andrew Pershing presented earlier this year his concept of carbon credits for whale conservation, according to Nature Magazine. Pershing says whales are like trees because they store a lot of carbon. Just as planting trees removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, allowing whale population to rebound following the era of factory whaling […]
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A message from UMaine Vice President for Administration and Finance Janet Waldron to the UMaine community: “I am pleased to announce that Daniel Sturrup has been appointed as interim director of Auxiliary Services. Dan has been an integral member of the campus community for over two decades, most recently serving Auxiliary Services as its director […]
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The Portland Press Herald includes a report on Thursday’s 2-1 Black Bear field hockey win over Michigan in a game played at UMaine. Kallie Aldus scored the game-winning goal with just 12 seconds left in the second half.
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