Several media outlets, including the Bangor Daily News, reported on new technology for strengthening wood glulam beams for which UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center was recently awarded a patent. AEWC Director Habib Dagher and Professor Mac Gray were interviewed by the BDN and Bangor television station WABI included comments from UMaine graduate student […]
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The website foodnavigator-usa.com has a report about a study conducted by UMaine economist Mario Teisl which appeared in the journal Food Policy. According to the study, which Teisl conducted with an Ohio State researcher, consumers are willing to pay higher prices than government analyses suggest in order to reduce their risk of becoming ill from […]
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty and frequent Maine political analyst, is scheduled to join reporters Mal Leary and A.J. Higgins as guests on Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s television show “Maine Watch” with host Jennifer Rooks this evening at 8 p.m. They’ll be discussing Gov. LePage’s state budget proposal, announced today.
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The Portland Press Herald has a column about the book “Muskrat Stew and Other Tales of a Penobscot Life: The Life Story of Fred Ranco,” which was published in 2007 by the UMaine-based Maine Folklife Center. Ranco was a member of the Penobscot tribe who served in World War II and the Korean War. The […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about Stu Haskell, former UMaine athletic director, who will receive Friday night the Founders Medal from the Hockey East conference. Haskell served as the Hockey East commissioner for five years. Since his retirement in 1997, Haskell has written The Maine Book, which covers Maine athletics from 1881 to […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal reports UMaine’s 4-H Camp and Learning Center in Bryant Pond has received an anonymous $69,000 donation that will be used to build nine new bunkhouses over the next few years. Oxford County Cooperative Extension Educator Susan Jennings said most of the bunkhouses will be built by students in the building trade […]
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UMaine and the University of Maine Foundation are working with the Bangor and Orono land trusts to conserve 2,738 acres of land in the Bangor-Alton area, according to the Bangor Daily News. This newest addition to the Caribou-Penjajawoc Lands Project protects and connects land parcels ranging from 43 to 1,100 acres, while also raising $1.2 […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried a column by Kate Yerxa, nutrition educator at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, about community supported agricultural farm share opportunities. She explains that winter is the time to begin researching farms that sell shares to the community and how to determine which produce options make sense for families.
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WLBZ reported on the Tuesday’s Nano Expo, which took place on the UMaine campus. The event, which drew more than 200 students and teachers from three area middle schools, is part of UMaine’s “Making Stuff” collaboration with Boston public television station WGBH, the Challenger Learning Center and the Maine Discovery Museum, and introduces students to […]
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Robert Bayer, the executive director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, commented in an MPBN radio report about a line of high-end lobster products being offered as a partnership between chefs and Casco Bay-based lobstermen. Bayer said the partnership is unique because it is a cooperative producing value-added products.
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