Jonathan Farley of the UMaine computer science faculty co-authored an opinion column published by The State, a South Carolina newspaper. In that column and a similar essay that The Guardian newspaper in Great Britain asked him to write, Farley criticizes the Democratic party establishment for its failure to support the South Carolina Senate candidacy of […]
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Comments from Deb Neuman, director of UMaine’s Target Technology Incubator, are included in a front-page Thursday Bangor Daily News story about Wednesday’s Invention to Venture conference. The UMaine technology incubator organized the conference, held in Orono. Under Secretary of Commerce David Kappos spoke at the conference, lauding Maine and its people for the “can-do attitude” […]
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UMaine Prof. Irv Kornfield is featured in a WABI television story about his work helping the Maine Warden Service investigate illegal hunting cases. Working in UMaine’s Wildlife Forensic DNA lab, Kornfield assesses evidence and matches animal DNA in ways that help law enforcement officials investigate and prosecute these crimes.
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Knud Hermansen of the UMaine engineering faculty provided expertise that helped the town of Minot settle a dispute over a building permit. The town’s board of appeals voted on Tuesday night to reverse a previous decision and grant a land developer permission to build on a lot located beyond the end of York Road.
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UMaine’s Sea Grant Program is teaming up with the Department of Marine Resources and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute on a series of meetings around the state to focus and encourage research in areas of importance to the sustainability of Maine’s marine resources, according to a story on the website fenceviewer.com. The first meeting, […]
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The science, physics and technology website Physorg.com has a story about a new piece of equipment that will be up and running at UMaine next fall. UMaine is gaining a superconducting quantum interference device magnetometer, known as a SQUID magnetometer, which will make it possible for faculty members in several science disciplines to perform high-resolution […]
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Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News reports on plans for a Thursday Aroostook County motorcade and funeral, honoring and remembering Marine Lt. James Zimmerman, who was killed last week while serving in Afghanistan. Zimmerman was a 2008 UMaine graduate, commissioned as a Marine officer upon completion of UMaine’s Navy ROTC program. The motorcade will begin in Smyrna, […]
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A Mainebiz story and a longer Bangor Daily News report describe UMaine plans to build a state-of-the-art aquaculture research laboratory on the university’s Orono campus. The Bangor Daily News story includes comments from Prof. Ian Bricknell, Libra Professor of Aquaculture Biology and director of UMaine’s Aquaculture Research Institute and Debbie Bouchard, manager of the Maine […]
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WABI television broadcast a Monday report about a UMaine chemistry research effort. A team led by professors Ray Fort and Barbara Cole, both of whom were interviewed in the story, are developing better ways to extract a specific acid from pine needles. That acid is a primary ingredient in Tamiflu, a medicine commonly used to […]
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The Midcoast Village Soup newspapers reported in the Herald Gazette recently that the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s 4-H Camp and Learning Centers at Tanglewood and Blueberry Cove have received a $20,000 donation from the Oct. 29 Wentworth Charities Golf Classic Tournament at the Samoset Report in Rockport. The donation will support a variety of […]
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