Maine Public featured Jason Bolton, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension food safety specialist and associate Extension professor, on a recent segment of “Maine Calling” about starting and operating a food business in Maine.
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University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy will welcome more than 150 researchers, policy makers and coastal community partners to a blue economy virtual discussion at 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 18. The event will focus on the challenges and opportunities for Maine in the blue economy and how Maine’s public research university factors into solutions. Heather […]
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WCVB (Channel 5 in Boston) reported on University of Maine-affiliated lobster research. The program explored research conducted at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm that was funded by the UMaine Lobster Institute. It also featured Marin Skincare, a startup founded by UMaine alumni Amber Boutiette and Patrick Breeding that sells a specialty skincare product made with […]
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Mainebiz reported on the latest research by Walt Golet, an assistant professor with the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, to conserve western Atlantic bluefin tuna and explore new marketing efforts to help fishermen sell it.
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Habib Dagher, executive director for the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, spoke with News Center Maine about the floating offshore wind technology demonstration project his center is developing with New England Aqua Ventus LLC. “If we harness just 3% of the offshore wind resource in the Gulf of Maine, we can heat […]
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The Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriations bills were officially released from the Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday, October 18. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $57,537,000 in funding to support research and initiatives at the University of Maine and the University of Maine System. Included in the bill is […]
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UMaine experts and partners are among the participants leading the virtual 2021 Life Sciences Summit from 9–11:30 a.m. Oct. 19–20, sponsored by the Bioscience Association of Maine and Maine Center for Entrepreneurs. Among them include Renee Kelly, UMaine assistant vice president for innovation and economic development, and Kristy Townsend, graduate faculty member in the Graduate […]
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Mainebiz spoke with Andrew Crawley, a University of Maine assistant professor of regional economic development, about plans to establish the University Center for Economic Development in partnership with the University of Southern Maine and UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. The new center will work to cultivate innovation and develop a skilled regional workforce to […]
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The Economic Development Administration has awarded the University of Southern Maine and the University of Maine $509,000 over five years to fund the University Center for Economic Development, a collaboration of experts from the University of Maine System that will provide technical assistance and research for the implementation of the state’s 10-year economic development strategy. […]
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Renee Kelly, assistant vice president for innovation and economic development at the University of Maine, discussed the many ways in which the COVID-19 has affected businesses on a recent episode of “Maine Calling” from Maine Public.
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