The Bangor Daily News has an article about George Davis Carlisle, a UMaine graduate who recently donated $500,000 to Eastern Maine Medical Center’s CancerCare of Maine program, which is located in Brewer. Carlisle earned a forestry degree from UMaine and went on to work at Prentiss & Carlislie land management company, a family business of […]
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U.S. Senator Susan Collins announced Thursday that she has secured a commitment from the White House that the Department of Agriculture’s New England Plant, Soil and Water Laboratory (NEPSWL) at the University of Maine will remain open.
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Comments from Prof. Ivan Fernandez of UMaine’s soil sciences faculty are included in a Bangor Daily News story about Sen. Susan Collins’ Thursday announcement that the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s New England Plant, Soil and Water Laboratory, located at UMaine, will remain open. Fernandez provided perspectives on the value of the work conducted at the […]
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Friday’s Portland Press Herald includes a story wrapping up the three-day EnergyOcean International conference held this week in Portland. In the story, Ken Fletcher, director of Maine’s state energy office pointed out that the state is “fully committed” to the development of energy sources from the ocean. UMaine is leading the DeepCWind Consortium, a broad-based, […]
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UMaine Libra Foundation Professor of Engineering Michael “Mick” Peterson is the co-author on a white paper released Wednesday about the current state of knowledge pertaining to training and racing surfaces for horse, according to a post on the Handicapper’s Edge, a daily racing news website. Peterson, who is quoted in the website’s story, is also […]
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The website Working Waterfront posted a story about the dry labs and office space recently built at UMaine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole. The new labs offer space to researchers whose equipment sensitive to sea water previously had to be stored elsewhere. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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A number of media organizations noted this week’s international EnergyOcean Conference in Portland, where UMaine-led technology for developing deepwater off-shore floating wind turbines is among the topics of conversation. Maine Public Radio reported that hundreds of stakeholders from the ocean energy industry are attending the conference. A Bangor Daily News article about the conference said […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about recent UMaine graduate Roosevelt Boone, a former Black Bear football player, and the youth wellness and nutrition camp he will run next month on the UMaine campus. The Strong Mind, Strong Body camp is free and open to youth in the greater Bangor area whose families meet […]
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An article in the June issue of Fisherman’s Voice discusses how research at the University of Maine Lobster Institute and Animal Health Laboratory is helping coastal lobster pound operators determine the best ways to reduce “shrinkage” of the catch through lobster deaths after capture. Some pound owners facing 15-20-percent shrinkage rates have gone out of […]
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The Orono Land Trust and the Bangor Land Trust, working for several years with multiple partners and donors, including the University of Maine, have successfully secured the permanent conservation of 2,738 additional acres of working forests, meadows, wetlands and lakeshores in Bangor, Orono and Old Town. They’ll celebrate the achievement this week.
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