The Associated Press, Maine Public, the Mount Desert Islander, Splash 247.com, Recharge, Windtech International and The Hill reported that Maine Gov. Janet Mills has applied for a lease to build a floating offshore wind demonstration site in federal water approximately 30 miles off the coast of Maine. About 12 floating hulls, which were developed at […]
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Tim Waring, a University of Maine associate professor of economics and faculty fellow with UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, was a guest on an episode of Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” discussing the buy local movement in Maine.
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Emma Wilson, an entrepreneurship events and marketing coordinator at the University of Maine, talked with WVII (Channel 7) about Maine’s Big Gig, a competition aimed at jump-starting small businesses. Contestants pitch their ideas to an expert panel to win money and advance their businesses. Mainebiz also previewed the event.
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk about how collaborative teams can draw from lessons learned in kindergarten to tackle complex problems 3–4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 13. Humanity is grappling with many “wicked” problems — such as climate change, ocean plastic pollution and […]
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The Bangor Daily News, The Ellsworth American, Centralmaine.com, The Irregular and the Sun Journal advanced an upcoming talk from the University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions about how collaborative teams can draw lessons learned from kindergarten to tackle complex problems featuring Pips Veazy, director of the UMaine Portland Gateway. The talk will be held […]
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Wallace Dunham, dean emeritus of the University of Maine College of Applied Sciences and Agriculture — now the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture — passed away Aug. 24. He was 91. Dunham joined UMaine in 1966 after serving on the faculty at Ohio State University and the University of New Hampshire. In addition […]
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Phoebe Jekielek, director of research at Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership and a Ph.D. student at the University of Maine, and Dana Morse, a UMaine Cooperative Extension scallop specialist with Maine Sea Grant, spoke with the New York Times about scallop aquaculture in Maine. Jekielek is investigating the impact of scallop farming on […]
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Four faculty-led teams pursuing commercialization of research projects are ready for the next steps in that journey having completed the University of Maine’s 2021 MIRTA accelerator program. The teams presented their projects at an event earlier this month, marking the conclusion of this year’s program. The 2021 MIRTA teams, the fourth cohort to complete the […]
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Mainebiz, ScienceDaily and the Bangor Daily News advanced an effort from University of Maine scientists to develop more effective, safe, sustainable and affordable fish vaccines using nanocellulose.
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In an effort to support Maine and the nation’s growing finfish aquaculture industry, University of Maine scientists seek to develop more effective, safe, sustainable and affordable fish vaccines using nanocellulose produced from Maine’s renewable wood pulp industry. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a team of UMaine aquaculture […]
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