The Weekly newspaper has a preview of the upcoming HOPE Festival, which will take place Saturday at UMaine’s Student Recreation and Fitness Center. The UMaine festival sponsors include the Peace & Reconciliation Studies Program, the Women In Curriculum and Women’s Studies program, and student groups Maine Peace Action Committee, Sustainable Agriculture Enthusiasts, and Green Team. […]
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A Camden firm which is a member of the UMaine-led DeepCwind Consortium received earlier this month a $500,000 grant from the Maine Technology Institute, the Village Soup website noted. WindFloat Maine LLC will use the grant to help fund the development of a floating foundation for deepwater offshore wind turbines, a project being developed at […]
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A Forbes Magazine blogger has a post about the lobster shell golf balls developed at UMaine by engineering professor David Neivandt and his student, Alex Caddell of Winterport. Contact: Kristen Andresen, 207-581-3742
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The Bangor Daily News has a Tuesday story about two UMaine funds, the President’s Gift Account and the UMaine Priorities Account, to which the UMaine president has access in order to fund unforeseen situations that arise or activities such as private fundraising initiatives. President Robert Kennedy recently announced he would use the gift account to […]
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The Digital Directions blog on the Education Week website is running a Bangor Daily News story about iPad use among kindergartners, featuring comments from UMaine researchers Bonnie Blagojevic and Mary Ellin Logue. Blagojevic, a research associate at UMaine’s Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, said the iPad can be a game-changer for education, but […]
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An op-ed piece written by a UMaine graduate student was published in the Bangor Daily News. Elissa Rowe, who is also a social worker, advocated for support of LD 18, An Act to Extend the School Year in which the school year would go from 180 days to 185 days. Rowe writes that Maine is […]
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Friday’s Bangor Daily News reported that Nicole Goggin has been named Brewer’s economic development specialist. Goggin will graduate from UMaine on May 7 with an MBA. Chosen from a field of 43 applicants, she supplemented her UMaine course work with involvement in the Knowledge Transfer Alliance, an interdisciplinary effort that brings UMaine expertise to bear […]
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Tuesday’s lecture on climate change and the fall of the Roman Empire was advanced in the Bangor Daily News. Michael McCormick, the Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History at Harvard University will speak on the subject at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, at the Collins Center for the Arts on the UMaine campus. McCormick will […]
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The Boston Globe ran on Monday a story linking the lobster shell golf balls engineered at UMaine with the revival of the practice of hitting golf balls off of cruise ships, which was banned in around 1988. The Globe story included interviews with UMaine engineering professor Dave Neivandt and UMaine-based Lobster Institute Executive Director Bob […]
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Renae Moran of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty will give a Camden presentation on Tuesday May 3. An expert on fruit trees, Moran will speak on subjects related to growing fruit varieties in Maine’s climate. The talk, detailed in a Village Soup story, is scheduled for 12 noon at Merryspring Nature Center. Contact Joe Carr […]
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