The Virtual Strategy Magazine website posted a news release from Hastest Solutions, Inc., a California company that designs and manufactures wind test chambers, which noted the company had designed, assembled and installed a three-story environmental wind turbine test chamber in UMaine’s Offshore Wind Laboratory. The release included a comment from Habib Dagher, UMaine engineering professor […]
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In an opinion piece in the Portland Press Herald, a public information officer for the Maine Department of Transportation defended the state’s response to the news that the Bridge-in-a-Backpack technology developed at UMaine had received a key approval from a national group of transportation officials. Responding to a column in Wednesday’s Press Herald, the officer […]
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Robert Bayer, director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, commented in a Portland Press Herald story about the falling prices of lobster. Bayer said given the glut of lobsters on the market, the margins between the wholesale and retail prices are probably less now. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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UMaine students Katie Chenard and David Bridges, who are serving as interns this summer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, were profiled in a Bangor Daily News story and video. Chenard and Bridges are living on Metinic Island to protect migratory seabirds that nest there. In addition to enhancing nesting grounds and monitoring predator […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried an advance on an upcoming fundraiser for the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium, which is being held starting July 22 in partnership with UMaine. SISS will take place in the Steam Plant parking lot off College Avenue. A news release has more information about the symposium. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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Maddelyn Harden, a UMaine marine science student, was listed as a co-author on an article in Working Waterfront newspaper about how restrictions on the herring fishery may lead lobstermen to search for alternative bait sources, which could lead to impacts on lobster health, human health, public perception and the marine ecosystem. Catherine Schmitt, the communications […]
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UMaine research into the lily leaf beetle was mentioned in a story about the beetle on the website for The Daily News of Batavia, N.Y. The story noted that UMaine has done research to identify lilies that have resistance to the beetle, and also mentioned research into botanical insecticides. A University of Maine Cooperative Extension […]
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Comments made by Robert Bayer, the director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, in a recent Wall Street Journal report about falling lobster prices were posted on the New Jersey Newsroom website and Trade Only Today, a website that carries daily news for marine industry professionals. Bayer has said the low prices will be a disaster for […]
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The news that the Bridge-in-a-Backpack technology developed at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center has won national approval from a group of transportation officials as the subject of a column in the Portland Press Herald. The column argued that the technology, which is a composite bridge that can be built faster, lighter and stronger than […]
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A column in the Bangor Daily News noted that former UMaine assistant men’s hockey coach has been inducted into the Manitoba Hall of Fame. Standbrook served as UMaine’s recruiting coordinator for 18 years, helping the Black Bears to two NCAA Championships and 11 Frozen Four appearances. Contact: Jessica Bloch, (207) 581-3777
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