Year: 2012
40 Years of Climate Change Research
How do ice cores give scientists a picture of the past in order to better understand what will happen in the future?
Read moreDagher Comments on PUC in Offshore Wind Report
Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article about Maine Public Utilities Commission concerns about the profitability of an offshore wind-power project proposed by the Norwegian Statoil North America company. Dagher said PUC commissioners are not questioning the viability of offshore wind power technology, but […]
Read moreArticle Features Extension 4-H Livestock Program
An article in southern Maine’s KeepMECurrent newspapers about several Cumberland-area youths participating in livestock programs at local county fairs cites the students’ participation in 4-H, a youth development program run through the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. UMaine Extension’s Jessy Brainerd, who was interviewed for the article, said 4-H membership has grown to 2,765 members, […]
Read moreNews Reports on UMaine Role in Moth Eradication Strategy
The Bangor Daily News carried a Falmouth Forecaster article about the town of Harpswell’s use of a parasitic fly — the Cyzenis albicans — to kill destructive and invasive winter moths noted that the University of Maine is assisting in the project by monitoring moth damage to town forests. The Maine Forest Service and University […]
Read moreWebsite Reports Job-Spawning UMaine Collaborative
The Mass High Tech website posted an article about the Blackstone Accelerates Growth (BAG) program, in which UMaine is involved, and $3 million in funding from the Blackstone Charitable Foundation to launch a new Innovation Hubs initiative in Bangor and Portland. The Maine Technology Institute, the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development and UMaine are part […]
Read moreUniversity of Maine Museum of Art Fall Exhibits Open
Three new University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) exhibits open to the public Friday, Oct. 5, for the fall season. Exhibits include “Alan Bray: At the Edges,” which features more than 20 works by one of Maine’s most respected contemporary landscape painters; “Mayumi Sarai: Ring Cycle,” a display of floor-based and hanging sculptures; and […]
Read moreUMaine and ESTIA Hosting Conference on Slow Food
The University of Maine and ESTIA, a nonprofit and nongovernmental organization based in Maine dedicated to the protection of cultural and biological diversity, will host the 9th Annual ESTIA Conference on “Slow Food: A Model for Sustainable and Healthy Living.” Interest in the concept of Slow Food has grown in recent years as more people […]
Read moreSmith to Speak at Portland Intermedia Art Discussion
Owen F. Smith, director of the Intermedia MFA program at the University of Maine, will participate in a panel Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the Maine College of Art in Portland on Intermedia as part of discussion sponsored by Portland Ovations. Titled “Post-Performance Lecture: Inter-media Panel Discussion,” the discussion […]
Read moreUMaine President Panelist for National College Engagement Award
University of Maine President Paul Ferguson attended the 13th annual National Outreach Scholarship Conference at the University of Alabama, which was held Oct. 1–2, and served on the judges’ panel for the 2012 C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award sponsored by the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU). Established in 2006 with […]
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