The Bangor Daily News has an advance on next week’s visits to campus by the three finalists for the UMaine System chancellor position. All three will be on the UMaine campus Jan. 18-20 with open forum sessions from 10 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. in Wells Conference Center Room 2. The system’s chancellor search web page […]
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Habib Dagher, the director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, will be a guest during the 3 p.m. hour Friday on the National Public Radio “Science Friday” show. Dagher will discuss the potential of deepwater floating turbines. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Several media outlets, including the Hartford Courant covered the news that former UMaine President Robert Kennedy has been appointed as president of the Connecticut Board of Regents. Kennedy had served as the interim president since September. the Journal News of New York ran an Associated Press story about the announcement, which noted the regents oversee […]
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A Bangor Daily News report on Thursday night’s Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce dinner noted UMaine’s Habib Dagher, the director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was named the winner of the Catherine Lebowitz Award for Public Service. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Mainebiz website has an item (http://www.mainebiz.biz/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120119/NEWS0101/120119947) about the news that UMaine is part of a consortium of New England schools that will receive a grant for transportation research. The research is part of a nationwide, $77 million federal effort for research to promote transportation safety and efficiency. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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FIS, the website of Fish and Information Services, noted a pilot project being done by the UMaine-based Sea Grant and Cooperative Extension’s Marine Extension Team that will help mussel farmers build understanding and knowledge of growing kelp. Through photosynthesis and simple growth, seaweeds remove carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the atmosphere. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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University of Maine associate professor of new media Jon Ippolito and George Markowsky, professor and associate director of the UMaine School of Computing and Information Science, were interviewed for a 6 p.m. Channel 7 (WVII) news report Wednesday on proposed Congressional Internet piracy legislation. The proposal, designed to stem the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted content […]
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Maine farmers surveyed recently for a University of Maine Cooperative Extension research project expressed optimism about the state’s farming opportunities and suggested business would improve if the “buy local” message reaches more consumers and institutions.
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Leroy Patterson, a 33-year veteran of the UMaine Department of Public Safety, died Wednesday morning of cancer at the age of 67, according to a story in the Bangor Daily News. UMaine Police Chief Roland Lacroix told the BDN Patterson, who joined the department in 1977 and eventually rose to the rank of sergeant, touched […]
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The website Physorg carried a news release about a pilot program coordinated by the UMaine-based Maine Sea Grant and UMaine Cooperative Extension to start a demonstration hatchery where a species of seaweed would be grown along with mussels. The project is an example of Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA), which is believed to reduce the environmental […]
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