Year: 2012

Channel 5 Reports Free Admission at UMaine Art Museum

Comments from George Kinghorn, director and curator of the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor, were included in a Channel 5 (WABI) report that admission to the museum will remain free to the public through 2013 as a result of financial support from Penobscot Financial Advisors of Bangor.

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Snowe Congratulates UMaine on Wind Project Funding

In a news release posted on her office website, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe has congratulated the University of Maine for recent U.S. Department of Energy grant funding to continue work developing what will eventually become the nation’s first offshore, floating wind-energy farm. The senator said the funding is potentially worth up to $47 million.

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UMaine Faculty Members on Wabanaki Child Welfare Panel

The Bangor Daily News reported that two University of Maine faculty members, gkisedtanamoogk, a Wampanoag from Cape Cod who now teaches in the UMaine Native American Studies and the Peace and Reconciliation programs, and Gail Werrbach, director of the School of Social Work, have been named to a five-member panel, the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare […]

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Coastal Paper Carries UMaine Wind Turbine Article

The mid-coast newspaper Penobscot Bay Pilot published a news release about plans by the University of Maine and wind energy development partners in the DeepCwind Consortium to float a prototype wind turbine down the Penobscot River to the coast, where it will be moored offshore to test the technology behind plans for a full-scale wind […]

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New Statutory Guides for Wind, Wave, Tidal Power Permitting

An article on the Alternative Energy eMagazine website reported that energy and environmental attorney Jeff Thaler, a visiting professor of energy law and policy at the University of Maine School of Law and UMaine School of Economics, has written two guides for potential developers and others to navigate federal, state and local laws and regulations […]

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Science Website Posts Article about UMaine Geologist

The science website PhysOrg.com has posted an article about University of Maine geologist and research professor Ed Grew, who recently had two newly discovered minerals, “hydroxledgrewite” and “edgrewite,” named in his honor by two geologists at the University of Silesia in Poland.

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Benefactor Extends Free Admission at UMaine Museum of Art

The University of Maine Museum of Art will extend its free admission policy for the public in 2013 as a result of a gift from Penobscot Financial Advisors. Penobscot Financial Advisors has been a longtime sponsor of UMMA’s Community Partners Program, which provides support for education and exhibition programs, according to George Kinghorn, museum director […]

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Professor Emeritus Charles Buck Passes

University of Maine professor emeritus Charles Buck, who taught molecular and biological sciences classes at UMaine for 30 years, died at his home in Stillwater Sunday, Dec. 16, according to his obituary in the Bangor Daily News. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth, two brothers, three sons and a grandson. Calling hours are from […]

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