Dana Morse, a Maine Sea Grant researcher who works at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, was quoted in an article published by The Free Press about Maine Foodie Tours — tours of restaurants and markets that offer local food — coming to Rockland in the summer of 2015. The Rockland tour will include […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension was mentioned in an article published by The Guardian that looks at Maine’s growing artisan grain industry. The article focuses on Skowhegan’s Somerset Grist Mill and Maine Grains, a wholesaler producing stone-milled flour and related products from grains grown by local farmers. “Lots of people are experimenting and working […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in a Mainebiz article about seaweed farming and the expansion of Maine Coast Sea Vegetables, a Down East company that sells sea vegetables as whole foods. According to UMaine’s Maine Sea Grant, there are more than 250 species of sea vegetables in the Gulf of Maine. Although most are […]
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CNBC named High Touch Courses one of the world’s “20 hottest startups of 2014.” High Touch Courses “is an online course system that utilizes gamification and provides on-demand education for the price of a Netflix subscription,” the report states. The startup aims to disrupt the traditional four-year degree system for certain areas of study, such […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on the University of Maine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR) in Franklin and its partnership with Acadia Harvest Inc. to develop a startup business of growing yellowtail using land-based aquaculture production. The company, which partnered with CCAR in 2012, now has 16,000 young yellowtail fish that they are growing to […]
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Dan Kerluke, a former associate head coach for the University of Maine hockey team, was a guest on the Grow Maine Show where he spoke about the startup he co-founded to create a hockey goaltending analytics app. Kerluke started Double Blue Sports Analytics with David Alexander, who was a UMaine goalie coach, and Tim Westbaker, […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in two Environment & Energy Publishing articles that focused on ocean energy. The first article mentioned the new wind and wave laboratory being built at UMaine. W² is the world’s first wind and wave lab to feature a rotating open-jet wind tunnel above a 100-foot-long by 30-foot-wide by 15-foot-deep […]
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Windpower Monthly published an article about the platform of VolturnUS, a prototype that’s one-eighth the scale of a full-size offshore wind turbine that was deployed off the coast of Castine in June 2013. VolturnUS was created by the University of Maine-led DeepCwind Consortium. During its deployment, the platform has experienced storm conditions allowing UMaine to […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) and the Bangor Daily News interviewed Robert Rice, a professor of wood science and technology at the University of Maine, for a report about Old Town Fuel and Fiber owners confirming the pending sale of the defunct mill to Expera Specialty Solutions, a Wisconsin-based company. Rice said Expera has a strong background […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on aquaculture research at the University of Maine for the report, “Aquaculture in Maine: A look inside.” WABI visited UMaine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR), a state-of-the-art business incubation facility and center for aquaculture research, development and demonstration on a 25-acre campus on the shore of Taunton Bay in Franklin, […]
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