The international SustainableBusiness.com website noted plans by the oil company Statoil to build the world’s largest floating wind farm off the Maine coast with research assistance from the University of Maine’s Wind Energy Lab. Maine is considered a prime location for offshore wind projects because of state policy and the UMaine lab, “where they are […]
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A $7.9 million gift from the estate of Thomas P. Hosmer was recently received by the University of Maine Foundation to primarily support maintenance projects at the University of Maine. This is the third-largest single gift given to benefit the University of Maine.
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Several news organizations, including the Maine Public Broadcasting Network, covered the unveiling Monday by Gov. Paul LePage, Maine Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen and Hermon High School students and administrators of the pilot Bridge Year Program, an educational collaborative involving the University of Maine. The project allows 15 college-bound technology students from Hermon to finish high […]
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Several University of Maine collaborative partnerships helping research and design new water, wind and wave energy industries were included in an article in Maine Insights about how much money is being spent on out-of-state oil and gasoline, which could be reduced through the development of innovative local and renewable energy resources. The article included comments […]
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Two students who said they are heading to UMaine were interviewed in a Bangor Daily News article about Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s promotion of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. Nick Ferguson of Sidney and Derek Caron of Oakland, both seniors at Messalonskee High School in Oakland, said they intend to study chemical engineering […]
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Initiative aimed at fostering the professional development of UMaine female faculty members in engineering, mathematics, technology, and the physical, biological and social-behavioral sciences.
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In a Bangor Daily News report about Ed Lindsey, a UMaine alumnus and Old Town High School teacher who is one of 18 teachers in the nation to have won the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators, Lindsey credited the Acadia Learning Project, in which UMaine is involved, for helping him win the award. Lindsey’s […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) aired a report on the high-altitude balloon launch over the weekend by several University of Maine engineering students and some from Bangor High School. The experiment was funded by the Maine Space Grant Consortium with support from NASA. Electrical and computer engineering professor Rick Eason was interviewed for the report. He said […]
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The global energy organization Iberdrola USA Foundation and the Fundacion Iberdrola Scholarship Program for Energy and Environment Postgraduate Studies in the United States announced the awarding of fellowships to University of Maine Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student Matthew Burns and a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Burns studies the feasibility of deploying […]
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An editorial in the Bangor Daily News endorsing proposed bond issues being considered by the Legislature cited the benefits and job creation resulting from research at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures & Composites Center as being worth the investment. A research and development bond proposal in particular, the paper said, will improve Maine’s long-term […]
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