The Lewiston Sun Journal reported today that a Leeds Central School class has been selected to attend the Maine Engineering Expo at the University of Maine in March, after a “Dig into Science” contest organized by the S.W. Cole Engineering firm in Bangor. The fourth- and fifth-grade students prepared a YouTube video in which they […]
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The coastal Knox VillageSoup reported comments from U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree about the importance of the Northeast Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems weather buoys, formerly known as GMOOS, managed by a partnership that includes the University of Maine. NOAA has agreed to maintain funding for the program, which informs mariners and fishing vessels […]
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The Margaret Chase Smith Foundation has announced that it has entered into an agreement with the University of Maine under which, beginning Jan. 1, 2012, UMaine will administer the Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan, Maine on behalf of the foundation.
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Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News report on the potential for deepwater offshore wind power in the Gulf of Maine. Dagher said the recent news that a Norwegian company is seeking to put in a wind farm in the gulf galvanizes commercial […]
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ORONO, Maine – Clams of all kind are big business in New England, but the razor or jackknife clam, while worth between $2.50 and $6 per pound, has not been a focus of clam diggers. The elongated, elusive bivalve is hard to dig from the mud and usually only accessible at extremely low tides, resulting […]
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Several Bangor television stations covered Wednesday’s pep rally in the Memorial Union in support of the UMaine football team’s quarterfinal playoff game against Georgia Southern Saturday. WABI did a live broadcast from the pep rally, including an interview with Raibonne Charles, a senior defensive lineman and forestry major. WVII also interviewed senior linebacker Vinson Givans, […]
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A UMaine faculty and a staff member combined to write an opinion column in the Portland Press Herald about the lack of fiscal leadership on the part of both Congress and President Obama. John Mahon, the John M. Murphy chaired Professor of International Business Policy and Strategy at the Maine Business School, and Michael Hastings, […]
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The Bangor Daily News and other media outlets reported on the sentencing of a South Berwick man who was convicted of manslaughter and drunk driving in the January 2010 death of UMaine student Jordyn Bakley. Garrett Cheney was sentenced to 15 years in prison with all but seven suspended for the incident. Bakley would have […]
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UMaine political scientist Amy Fried’s biweekly Bangor Daily News column focused on the shift in wealth of the past decades and what that means for everyday people and the opportunities they will have in the future. Fried wrote that a nation with a highly skewed distribution of wealth is a nation with less opportunity for […]
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In an advance for the upcoming Maine Lego League Championship, the Central Maine Morning Sentinel newspaper noted UMaine’s College of Engineering is one of the sponsors. The annual Lego championship is the largest science and engineering education event in Maine, and this year’s event will feature 66 teams of children ages 9 to 14, who […]
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