A new collaboration among researchers at the University of Maine and Saint Joseph’s College of Maine was included in a Bangor Daily News business roundup. The researchers plan to work with seafood wholesaler Ready Seafood Inc. of Portland to create an environment where a soft-shell lobster can turn into a hard-shell one after it has […]
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Hemant Pendse, director of UMaine’s Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) about the recent sale of the Old Town mill. The institute has a research center in the mill’s warehouse, which city officials say will remain on the property, the Associated Press reported. In June, ND Paper LLC bought the Rumford paper […]
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More than 152 companies are expected to be represented at the University of Maine’s 2018 Engineering Job Fair on Oct. 17. The 20th annual event, which is expected to attract more than 1,000 students, will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. Co-sponsored by the UMaine College […]
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The Office of Innovation and Economic Development and the Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies Office will host an Introduction to External Partnerships and Commercialization Workshop for University of Maine faculty, staff and student researchers. The workshop will help participants learn how to take their research further through external partnerships and commercialization. […]
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Down East magazine published an article focused on research conducted by Richard Wahle, a professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences and director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute. After more than 30 years of ever-increasing landings, the Maine lobster catch plunged 16 percent in 2017, and scientists and fishermen are concerned that it […]
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Angela McCue, innovation engineering outreach manager at the University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation, was a judge on a recent episode of “Greenlight Maine.” The second episode of the fourth season features Heather Lux with True North Beauty and Michele Gilfoil with Planet Botanicals as they present their businesses in front of sponsor […]
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Mainebiz, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported the University of Maine is one of seven colleges involved in a yearlong national 21st Century Skills initiative to promote interpersonal job skills in students through the use of digital badges. UMaine will connect students with employers at Bangor Savings Bank and Northern Light Health who […]
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The University of Maine, in partnership with Eastern Maine Healthcare System/Northern Light Health and Bangor Savings Bank, is participating in a national Education Design Lab project, designed to identify, recognize and match the workforce skills that college students need and employers want. UMaine is one of seven colleges participating in a yearlong 21st Century Skills […]
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The Portland Press Herald, Maine Public, Bangor Daily News, News Center Maine, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on an announcement made at the University of Maine to help boost Maine’s forest economy. Forest Opportunity Roadmap/Maine (FOR/Maine), a group with representatives from industry, communities, government and others including UMaine, said the forest products […]
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The Maine Mass Timber Event, a daylong conference focused on established and emerging cost-effective mass timber construction technologies that are growing in popularity nationwide and around the globe, will be held Oct. 11 at the University of Maine, offered by UMaine’s Maine Mass Timber Commercialization Center in partnership with WoodWorks – Wood Products Council. The […]
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