WVII (Channel 7) reported Penobscot Community Health Care (PCHC) is partnering with the University of Maine School of Nursing, Harrington Family Health Care and Hometown Health Care in Newport to help fill the shortage of nurse practitioners in Maine. The reestablished nurse practitioner residency program, made possible by a $1.7 million U.S. Health Resources & […]
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News Center Maine reported on a consumer taste test of bread made with Maine seaweed that will take place 11 a.m.–4 p.m. July 14 at the Westin Portland Harborview hotel in downtown Portland. University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture graduate student Laurel Simone and professor Mary Ellen Camire are leading the test as […]
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Gov. Janet Mills recently signed legislation directing the Public Utilities Commission to approve the contract for Maine Aqua Ventus, a first-of-its-kind wind project in the United States, the Portland Press Herald reported. “With the innovative work being done at the University of Maine, our state has the potential to lead the world in floating offshore […]
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Mainebiz and The Penobscot Times reported the federal government will award $1.25 million in grants to support forest-industry development projects at the University of Maine and in East Millinocket. UMaine will receive $1 million to build a demonstration-scale nanocellulose plant, and East Millinocket will get $250,000 to support the acquisition of a former paper mill site, […]
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The Bangor Daily News cited the 2017 Maine Aquaculture Economic Impact Report published by the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute in an article about proposed fish farms. Ohad Maiman of Kingfish Zeeland in the Netherlands told the BDN he would like to build a land-based yellowtail fish farm somewhere in Maine, but the relentless […]
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The University of Maine has been awarded $1 million from the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) to build a demonstration scale nanocellulose plant that will advance next generation bio-based products. U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King announced the NBRC will award $1,250,000 in grants to UMaine and the town of East Millinocket. Both projects […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Mainebiz and Maine Startups Insider reported Neuright Inc., a biotech spinoff from the University of Maine, and Sticky Sweet, Portland’s first company featuring plant-based ice cream, each won a $25,000 prize as winners of the Top Gun entrepreneur contest. Neuright is developing a combined diagnostic test and therapy for early detection […]
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News Center Maine spoke with Hemant Pendse, director of the University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Research Institute and a professor of chemical and biomedical engineering, about a process that converts sawdust, wood pulp or any other wood biomass into crude oil. The FBRI, located in Old Town, operates a fee-for-service pilot plant where new startups […]
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The Sun Journal and Mainebiz reported on the Manufacturers Association of Maine’s annual summit held in Auburn. Hundreds of attendees from 132 companies turned out at the Maine Manufacturing Summit to talk challenges and innovation, answer state trivia and watch high school robotics demonstrations, according to the Sun Journal. “Innovator of the Year” was awarded […]
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Mainebiz reported Charlotte Mace will lead the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development’s new Office of Business Development and Innovation. Mace most recently served as the executive director of Biobased Maine, a nonprofit trade association focused on creating high-paying manufacturing jobs in rural Maine, according to the article. Her efforts to make Maine a […]
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