A front-page Saturday Bangor Daily News story reports on Friday’s visit to UMaine by representatives of a Russian company with broad responsibilities for transportation infrastructure at the 2014 Winter Olympics. They were in Maine to investigate the possibility of using bridge-in-a-backpack technology, developed at UMaine and licensed to an Orono-based company called Advanced Infrastructure […]
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Comments from Jane Conroy of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty are included in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel story providing advice about budgeting during the holiday season. In the story, Conroy also points to her recent research about the economic value of shopping locally.
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An Associated Press story details a new stage in the extensive hazing research project being conducted by Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden of the UMaine education faculty. Following their 2008 survey that provided the most extensive information ever collected on the subject as it relates to U.S. colleges and universities, Allan and Madden have launched […]
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The Bangor Daily News posted a story to its website a few hours after Friday’s announcement that a company marketing UMaine’s bridge-in-a-backpack technology had signed a memorandum of understanding with a Russian firm that could put the carbon-fiber bridges, developed at the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, to use during the 2014 Winter Oympics […]
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In an article listing tips for holiday shopping, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper gave a suggestion from UMaine’s Cooperative Extension. The suggestion was for parents who bring children shopping to give the child something to do during the shopping excursion, such as looking for an item organizing coupons.
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The website FISHupdate.com has a story about a new high-level containment lab being built at UMaine in order to study fish pathogens that occur in cold-water species. Construction on the lab, which was funded in part by a $600,000 grant from the Maine Technology Institute, is expected to begin next spring.
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Contact: Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, 581-3124 Research by UMaine professor of clinical nutrition Dorothy Klimis-Zacas and colleagues about the positive health effects wild blueberries have had when fed to hypertensive laboratory rats was cited in an article Nov. 18 on the NutraIngredients-USA.com website, a daily online health and nutrition news service. The article discusses findings of research […]
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State Rep. Emily Cain, whose legislative district includes UMaine’s Orono property, has been elected minority leader of the Maine House of Representatives. Cain, who is a UMaine graduate, is pursuing a UMaine degree and she serves as coordinator of advancement in the Honors College. A Maine Today Media (Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Central Maine […]
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Comments from UMaine Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Robert Dana are included in a Friday Central Maine Morning Sentinel story about alcoholic energy drinks. The Food and Drug Administration has issued warnings about these drinks, marketed under brand names such as Four Loko and Joose.
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The Emergency Management news Web site features a story about bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed in UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center. “The new technology could be one way to help rebuild the country’s bridge infrastructure, which has scored poorly in recent years on an annual report card of their integrity,” the story notes.
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