Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News included a story about UMaine plans to develop a Biomechanics Laboratory for Injury Reduction and Rehabilitation. The project, funded by a $533,000 Maine Technology Asset Fund grant, will use state-of-the-art crash test dummies to test equipment designed to prevent head injuries. The newspaper story is based on a UMaine news release.
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A Thursday Bangor Daily News story reports on a $500,000 Maine Technology Asset Fund grant to UMaine to establish a center for research, testing and education related to animal diseases. More details are in a UMaine news release.
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Thursday’s Bangor Daily News includes a report on a Wednesday hearing held by the UMaine Faculty Senate’s Program Creation and Reorganization Review Committee. The session was intended to gather public feedback about the proposal to suspend UMaine’s Dept. of Public Administration. Several members of the UMaine community, including faculty members in that department, spoke at […]
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A Thursday Bangor Daily News story provides details about Wednesday’s Greater Bangor Chamber of Commerce meeting about biomedical research collaborations in the region. The story includes comments from UMaine President Bob Kennedy, who was one of three featured speakers at the event.
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Comments from Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty are included in a blog post on the National Journal website. The post examines issues related to moderate Republican U.S. Senators, such as Maine’s Olympia Snowe, and whether they might face challenges from the right.
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An Associated Press story on several news websites picks up on a Wednesday UMaine news release about UMaine “bridge in a backpack” technology. Representatives of a Russian company and others involved with that country’s transportation infrastructure are visiting UMaine this week to assess the technology and its possible usefulness for infrastructure related to the 2014 […]
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John Cutcliffe of the UMaine nursing faculty is one of the investigators involved in a research study of suicidal young men in Northern Ireland. A news release from Ireland’s Public Health Agency describes the project, intended to “increase the understanding of suicidal young men, and inform the delivery of accessible, acceptable and appropriate mental health […]
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Comments from Prof. Dan Harrison of the UMaine wildlife ecology faculty were included in a Tuesday WABI television report about reports of cougars showing up in the Maine woods. “In terms of a viable population of cougars, I’m very, very skeptical about that,” he said.
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The work of UMaine Climate Change Institute researcher Gordon Hamilton is featured in a Discovery News story detailing Hamilton’s observations relative to changes in Greenland’s glaciers. The Greenland ice sheet is retreating at what Hamilton has called an “alarming” rate. The Discovery story references an extensive Nov. 14 New York Times report about this issue […]
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CompositesWorld.com noted a recent story in the Boston Globe which highlighted UMaine’s bridge-in-a-backpack technology.
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