The Bangor Daily News had a front-page story about a visit Monday to the Monhegan Island site where the UMaine-led DeepCwind consortium will deploy next year the country’s first deep-water wind turbine prototype. The group who visited the site included Habib Dagher, director of the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center; Peter Jumars, director of […]
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An article in the June issue of Fisherman’s Voice discusses how research at the University of Maine Lobster Institute and Animal Health Laboratory is helping coastal lobster pound operators determine the best ways to reduce “shrinkage” of the catch through lobster deaths after capture. Some pound owners facing 15-20-percent shrinkage rates have gone out of […]
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New Hampshire’s Seacoast Online carried an opinion piece, written by journalist Doug Rooks, about the future of offshore wind in Maine, including the efforts of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center to develop a wind farm in the Gulf of Maine. Rooks, called Advanced Structures and Composites Center Director Habib Dagher a rare visionary. […]
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UMaine alumnus Silas Rossi, who owns a mountain-climbing guide business called Alpine Logic, was featured in a Bangor Daily News article. Rossi, who last week became the first Maine native to be certified through the International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations – the highest professional award for mountaineering and skiing – was introduced to mountain […]
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Dennis Stoup, a former cook and baker with UMaine’s dining services, has opened a new business in Old Town, according to a Bangor Daily News story. The Daybreak Bakery is located in a former Old Town Canoe retail space. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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UMaine Center on Aging Director Len Kaye was quoted in the Morning Sentinel about the importance of supporting those who are taking care of aging parents. Kaye said caregivers are known to be more likely to be in poor health with depression, alcohol, and prescription drug issues. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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WABI television broadcast a Friday report about an event celebrating the 30th anniversary of UMaine’ Cooperative Extension’s Senior Companions program. The story includes comments from volunteer Bob Mattingly and from Ann Swain, the program’s director.
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Prof. Len Kaye, director of UMaine’s Center on Aging, was quoted in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel feature story about the challenges faced by those providing care for elderly relatives. The story includes perspectives on the support services available for those in such situations, especially in Maine, where the story says that network is “expanding.”
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The June 12 Maine Sunday Telegram previewed two upcoming photography exhibits at the UMaine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. “Photo National: 2011: A Survey of Contemporary Photography,” featuring the work of 34 photographers, opens at the museum on June 24, along with “New Dawn Fades,” photographer Thomas Hager’s tribute to processes developed by Sir […]
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Comments from Richard Powell of the UMaine political science faculty were included in a Friday Maine Public Radio story about a Chinese daily newspaper’s recent opinion column criticizing a plan to bring 60 Chinese students to Millinocket’s Stearns High School next fall. Powell, who was in China last year as a Fulbright Fellow, notes that […]
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