The international SustainableBusiness.com website noted plans by the oil company Statoil to build the world’s largest floating wind farm off the Maine coast with research assistance from the University of Maine’s Wind Energy Lab. Maine is considered a prime location for offshore wind projects because of state policy and the UMaine lab, “where they are […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported on a $7.9 million donation received by the University of Maine from the estate of 1958 graduate Thomas Homser.
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The San Antonio Express News website, published an Associated Press article about a $7.9 million donation to the University of Maine Foundation by the estate of 1958 UMaine engineering graduate and philanthropist Thomas Hosmer of Massachusetts. The money will support needed maintenance projects on campus and an endowed scholarship and an endowed lab to benefit […]
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A CNN news report about a Nova Scotia lobster boat pulling a rare bright blue lobster from the Atlantic included a reference to the University of Maine Lobster Institute, which has said blue lobsters like the one caught in Canada are a 1 in 2 million phenomenon. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Several news organizations, including the Maine Public Broadcasting Network, covered the unveiling Monday by Gov. Paul LePage, Maine Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen and Hermon High School students and administrators of the pilot Bridge Year Program, an educational collaborative involving the University of Maine. The project allows 15 college-bound technology students from Hermon to finish high […]
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A gardening column in the Portland Press Herald about peonies now blooming in Maine noted that $2 donations collected from visitors at gardener Ken Liberty’s open house June 23 at 23 Ohio Street in Bangor will benefit several nonprofit groups, including the University of Maine’s Lyle E. Littlefield Ornamentals Trial Garden, which now has various […]
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An article in the Waterville Morning Sentinel about how public consciousness of domestic violence has changed in the last four decades included comments from Mazie Hough, associate director of women’s studies at the University of Maine. Hough said what started in the 1970s as a grassroots feminist movement to establish domestic violence projects and influence […]
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A New England Cable News (NECN.com) interview about keeping kids safe from bullying and hazing at summer sports camps cited groundbreaking research by University of Maine College of Education and Human Development faculty members Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden that showed 47 percent of more than 11,000 students surveyed on 53 campuses nationwide reported they […]
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Several University of Maine collaborative partnerships helping research and design new water, wind and wave energy industries were included in an article in Maine Insights about how much money is being spent on out-of-state oil and gasoline, which could be reduced through the development of innovative local and renewable energy resources. The article included comments […]
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The news website Fenceviewer, an affiliate of the Ellsworth American, reported on a presentation before an Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting by University of Maine economists Jim McConnon, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics, and Todd Gabe, a UMaine School of Economics researcher and faculty member. They discussed […]
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