The websites Earth Techling and the technology news website nanowerk have published reports on the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s new test wind turbine erected on campus, a 1:8 scale model prototype of a planned series of larger, offshore wind turbines being developed by UMaine and the DeepCwind Consortium. Channel 5 (WABI) […]
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News reports on the surprising discovery by University of Maine marine scientist Rick Wahle and graduate student Noah Oppenheim that Maine lobsters will cannibalize their young after dark were posted in two websites, Medical Daily, and the animal news blog PetsLady.com. Contact: George Manlove, 207.581.3756
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The Potato Association of America (PAA) has honored University of Maine associate professor of plant, soil, and environmental sciences and of biological sciences David Lambert with an Honorary Life Membership for his commitment and work with potato disease. He was one of only three individuals so honored for 2012. Lambert received the Maine Potato Board’s […]
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More than 50 students from University of Maine computing and information science professor George Markowsky’s COS 125 Introduction to Problem Solving Using Computer Programming will compete from 11 a.m.–1 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 13 at Soderberg Auditorium in Jenness Hall in the annual fall semester computer gaming exhibit and competition. The event, one of many organized […]
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Graham Morehead, a graduate student in the University of Maine’s School of Computing and Information Science, wrote in a blog post, “As American as Glasnost 2,” on the journal Nature website about how the work of Jonathan Farley, a former UMaine associate professor of computer science, could help terrorists and those out to catch them. […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) reported on the 18th annual Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration held at the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum in the Collins Center for the Arts, where artists and crafters from the four prominent Maine tribes displayed their art, process and celebrated Native American culture. Contact: George Manlove, 207.581.3756
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In a Bangor Daily News article about the scale-model wind turbine erected at the University of Maine as part of ongoing wind power research and development, Habib Dagher, director of the university’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, compared the 121-foot-tall test model to NASA’s first satellite Explorer I because of what it promises in the […]
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The University of Maine Standardbred Drill Team invites the public and campus community to its free Santa’s Reindeer holiday event from 5–7 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 16 at the J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center on University Farm Road, off College Avenue in Old Town, for crafts, games, baked goods, hot cocoa and to meet the […]
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