Comments from University of Maine marine scientist Mark Wells were included in a New York Times science blog about a California businessman who undertook his own ecological experiment, dumping 100 tons of iron dust into the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to create a plankton bloom to biologically remove carbon dioxide from the water and […]
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The North American Windpower website reported on a new collaboration with the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center and the university’s Physical Oceanography Group and NRG Systems Inc., AWS Truepower LLC, and Leosphere SAS to create and deploy laser-based technological equipment off the Maine coast to monitor wind conditions. UMaine will design and […]
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Several University of Maine students were interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report on student loan debt and the prospect of being unable to make payments after they graduate if they cannot find jobs. Music education majors Paul Griffin and Stephanie Beatrice and business and marketing major Sarah Faulkingham said they are already concerned […]
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An Associated Press report posted on the Boston Globe website about new members of Republicans United for Marriage noted that UMaine athletic director Steve Abbott has joined the group in support of same-sex marriage. Maine voters will decide Nov. 6 whether the state will recognize and allow same-sex marriage. Maine Public Broadcasting Network also carried […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Channel 2 (WLBZ) were among the news organizations to report that the inadvertent omission of a disclaimer about potential game contestants and tickets led to the abrupt cancellation Oct. 17 of “The Price is Right – Live!” at UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts. CCA Director John Patches was interviewed […]
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The Maine Edge newspaper published an advance on the University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ upcoming theatrical production, “How I Learned to Drive.” Marcia Douglas, a theatre faculty member and director of the play, told the paper the play is both touching and disturbing because of its theme and content. A campus announcement has […]
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The Bangor Daily News was among several news organizations to report the sudden cancellation of the Oct. 17 Collins Center for the Arts event “The Price Is Right – Live!” Adele Adkins, associate director of UMaine’s Collins Center, told the BDN there was a production issue that couldn’t be fixed. According to the story refunds […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) carried a report on the Oct. 17 presentation at UMaine by retired CIA strategist Bruce Riedel on the status of the United State’s progress and upcoming challenges in combating terrorism. Riedel said Saudi Arabia and Algeria are among the countries susceptible to social upheaval resulting from Arab unrest. The talk was sponsored […]
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Sarah Nelson, a researcher with the University of Maine Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, was interviewed for an article in the upstate New York North Country Now newspaper about UMaine research in the use of dragonfly larvae as bio-sentinels for mercury in lakes and streams in the Northeast. The Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation […]
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The Ellsworth American newspaper’s website has posted a University of Maine Cooperative Extension news release about the first Hancock County Business Conference and Trade Show scheduled in Ellsworth Nov. 1–2. Maine Gov. Paul LePage is scheduled to give the keynote address. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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