Prof. Tom Hess from the UMaine physics faculty was interviewed for a Friday WLBZ television story about trace amounts of radiation observed by UMaine monitors since the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. UMaine is part of a national network monitoring radiation, with reports to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The Bangor Daily News published a Saturday report on a national award given to UMaine for bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center. The American Society for Civil Engineering recognized the technology with its annual Pankow Award Thursday in Washington, DC. UMaine received the recognition along with the Maine Dept. of Transportation […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal is reporting that Carol Hathorne, the principal of Hope Elementary School, has been named the Maine 2011 Elementary National Distinguished Principal of the Year. Hathorne received a master’s degree in educational administration from UMaine in 1990, according to the article.
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MSNBC’s Innovation and Technology website featured an Associated Press story about the biodegradable golf balls, made out of lobster shells, developed by UMaine bioengineer David Neivandt and undergraduate Alex Caddell. The Bangor Daily News also reported on the golf balls, as did Bangor television station WABI.
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The Rockland-based weekly newspaper Free Press covered last week one of a series of meetings about UMaine’s efforts to research deepwater offshore wind energy. Presenters at the meeting, which was held in Port Clyde, included Bob Lindyberg of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center which is leading the research effort, and Paul Anderson, the […]
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A Sen. Olympia Snowe news release recognizes UMaine and its collaborators for innovation excellence. Representatives from UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, the Maine Dept. of Transportation, Advanced Infrastructure Technologies and KlienfelderS/ E A Consultants were recognized in Washington, DC with a prestigious award. The award, from the American Council of Engineering Companies, for Bridge-in-a-backpack […]
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The Portland Press Herald and Boston Examiner website both have articles about new UMaine-developed biodegradable golf balls made out of lobster shells. UMaine bioengineer David Neivandt and undergraduate student Alex Caddell provided the research for the golf balls, which are the brainchild of Carin Poeschel Orr, who earned a master’s degree in marine bioresources from […]
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The blog Working in These Times quoted UMaine labor historian Charles Scontras regarding the removal from the Maine Department of Labor of a mural about labor history. Scontras equated the decision to remove the mural to a totalitarian regime attempting to erase history.
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Channel 5 (WABI) recently featured UMaine business and accounting students helping area residents with 2010 tax returns. Maine Business School accounting professor Steve Colburn, who oversees the annual service, and an accounting student, Joe Rosenwasser, were interviewed for the story.
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The Falmouth Forecaster newspaper website has a photo of Maine Department of Transportation workers on Monday posting signs directing travelers on Interstate 295 to UMaine’s new Regional Learning Center at Tidewater Farm in Falmouth. The center, which is scheduled to open the first week of May with a grand opening on May 14, will include […]
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