UMaine in the News

WBZN-FM shares Versant Power Astronomy Center’s Foo Fighters event

WBZN-FM (107.3 in Brewer) shared that the Versant Power Astronomy Center & Jordan Planetarium will host “Foo Fighters in February” on Feb. 12, 19 and 26. Tickets are $9 and can be purchased on the Versant Power Astronomy Center website, by phone at 207-581-1341 or at the box office prior to each show.

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Maine Monitor highlights Dagher, ASCC 3D printer

The Maine Monitor featured the Advanced Structures and Composites Center’s (ASCC) 3D printer, which is the largest in the world, and interviewed ASCC Founding Executive Director Habib Dagher about UMaine’s growing reputation as a place where science and technology combine to create products that benefit society. “By working together we can make a difference, educate […]

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Media share UMaine study about caring for children with serious mental illness

The Bangor Daily News, Mount Desert Islander and WMTW-TV (Channel 8 in Portland) featured a new University of Maine-led study that shows that parents raising children with serious mental illness and violent tendencies experience and express grief similar to those of children who have died, which informs how practitioners can help these caregivers cope with the […]

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MaineBiz reports on Innovate Maine Fellows Program doubling cohort

MaineBiz reported that the Innovate for Maine Fellows Program at the Foster Center for Innovation at the University of Maine is looking to double the cohort size this year to around 50 fellows. “This is made possible by additional funding from the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan to address the challenges startups and small businesses […]

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Dagher quoted in Engineering News Record about offshore wind in Maine

In an article about offshore and onshore wind projects moving forward in Maine, Engineering News Record interviewed Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, about the U.S. Interior Department approving a 9,700-acre floating turbine research site in a deepwater federal tract in the Gulf of Maine last month. Dagher said […]

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Lincoln County News shares Leslie honor as 2022 AAAS Fellow

The Lincoln County News reported that Heather Leslie, professor of marine science and director of the Darling Marine Center at the University of Maine, has been named a 2022 American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, one of the highest honors in the scientific community.

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