Biomass Magazine reported on a new venture between Sierra Resins Inc. and Jason Bolton, a food safety specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Bolton is working with the company as a food safety consultant to advise them on remediation testing and food safety regulations related to the development of next-generation bioplastics for the […]
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WVII (Channel 7) spoke with University of Maine nursing student Shannon Lyons about her upcoming trip with other nursing majors to Belize during spring break. About 20 UMaine nursing students will take part in a 10-day medical volunteer program. Lyons called the trip a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and said it’s unbelievable to be able to gain […]
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Boston.com, Seacoast Online, Winnipeg Free Press and WLBZ (Channel 2) carried an Associated Press report on the performance of an offshore wind turbine prototype that was deployed last summer off Castine. Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, said the 65-foot-tall turbine has performed as engineers expected even as […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported on the University of Maine Museum of Art’s winter exhibitions that will open to the public on Jan. 17 and run through March 22. The exhibits, “From Piranesi to Picasso: Master Prints from the Permanent Collection,” Hannah Cole’s “Time’s Wife” and Kenny Cole’s “Parabellum (Prepare for War)” include art from Maine […]
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The Maine Edge reported parents in the Orono and Old Town area will be able to encourage reading with “Literacy to Go” kits that include informational text, a storybook and a storyboard in a themed pizza box. The University of Maine Raymond H. Fogler Library in partnership with UMaine’s College of Education and Human Development, […]
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The Times Higher Education (London) published a weekly “From Where I Sit” column by Howard Segal, a history professor at the University of Maine. The article, titled “Demonisation and hatred,” focuses on the American Studies Association’s boycott of Israel.
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For reports on fatal overdoses in Maine, the Bangor Daily News and Portland Press Herald cited research by Marcella Sorg, a medical and forensic anthropologist in the University of Maine’s Department of Anthropology, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and the Climate Change Institute. Sorg has been tracking drug-related death patterns in Maine with Margaret Greenwald, […]
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Boston.com, WLBZ (Channel 2), WGME (Channel 13), San Antonio Express-News and News OK carried an Associated Press report about the University of Maine’s plans to deliver an update on the performance of its offshore wind turbine prototype that was deployed last summer off Castine. Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, is […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported John Patches, executive director of the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine, announced he will retire effective Jan. 31. Patches, 70, has been the head of the center since 1992 and said he is retiring to spend more time with family in Maine and California.
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Slate published an opinion piece on net neutrality by Michael Socolow, an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine. The article focuses on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision to strike down the FCC’s network neutrality rule that would make it illegal for cable and phone companies […]
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