Channel 2 (WLBZ) reported on the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium, which is taking place in UMaine’s Steam Plant parking lot. The symposium, which is being held in partnership with UMaine, features eight artists creating public sculptures for sites in Bangor, Old Town and Orono, including three for the UMaine campus. The report interviewed Indian Island […]
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In an opinion piece about bridging the gaps in Maine’s economic development that was published in the Bangor Daily News, Charles Hastings, a second-year MBA student at UMaine, noted UMaine’s Knowledge Transfer Alliance (KTA) and the contributions it makes to businesses. KTA, Hastings wrote, has worked to help businesses create business plans, conduct general business […]
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UMaine athletic director Steve Abbott was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News story about the possibility of the UMaine football playing a game at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., during the 2013 season. Abbott said UMaine is negotiating to play the University of Massachusetts at the stadium, which is known as the home of the […]
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The Concord Monitor newspaper in New Hampshire published an extensive article about the loss being felt at the University of Maine over the weekend of a student from Barnstead, N.H. who worked at UMaine’s New Balance Student Recreation Center. Friends and co-workers of 22-year-old Shirley Ladd, who succumbed to injuries suffered in a fall from […]
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The website “north American WINDPOWER” posted an article about the engineering challenges facing Sandia National Laboratory’s wind energy researchers who are designing, with University of Maine engineering research assistance, floating vertical-axis wind turbines to be erected and moored off the Maine coast. The article also mentions related collaborative work involving Iowa State University, TPI Composites, […]
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In her Bangor Daily News blog Pollways, University of Maine political scientist and commentator Amy Fried discusses flaws in the logic and message of a U.S. Chamber of Commerce attack ad vilifying former Maine Gov. Angus King, who is running for U.S. Senate. Fried called the ad “weird” and “nonlogical.” Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Several news organizations, including the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom, continued coverage of the accidental death Saturday of UMaine student Shirley Ladd, who fell from a mountain trail in Acadia National Park. The CBS News Travel Section also carried a report. Local news stations Channel 2 (WLBZ) and Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed Jeff Hunt, […]
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Channel 7 (WVII)interviewed University of Maine professor of wood science and technology Doug Gardner at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center about a manufacturing process for composite materials designed to advance the longevity of deck and fence construction materials. Gardner, UMaine research colleagues Chris West and Yousoo Han, and a researcher in Pennsylvania received a […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the death Monday of Charlie Slavin, longtime UMaine Honors College dean and mathematics professor. The report included comments from state Rep. Emily Cain, an Honors College graduate who now works there as the coordinator of advancement. A University of Maine news release has additional information. Contact: George Manlove, (207) […]
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A report on Maine Public Broadcasting Network radio features University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor of sustainable dairy and forage systems Rick Kersbergen, who is involved in a U.S. Department of Agriculture study on improving the marketability of organic milk. Kersbergen said the study looks at trying to decipher what forages and what pasture mixes […]
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