The Associated Press quoted Dana Humphrey, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Maine, in the article, “Group envisions Maine’s former air bases as spaceport for tiny satellites.” The group behind the project is proposing to use the former Loring Air Force Base in northern Maine and the more coastal former Brunswick […]
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release on the augmented reality Virtual Cocktail invention developed by Nimesha Ranasinghe, a new assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information Science at the University of Maine. The Virtual Cocktail, or Vocktail, is a device connected to a mobile app that allows the user […]
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The December issue of Maine Home + Design includes a profile of the University of Maine Museum of Art exhibition “So Real: Selections from the Museum Collection.” The magazine’s “Showcase” story highlights the realism depicted in the “extreme commitment to detail and the portrayal of real-life events” of the works by painters, woodcarvers and embroiderers. […]
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Penny Rheingans, director of the School of Computing and Information Science at the University of Maine, spoke with News Center Maine for the report, “Closing the gap: Women in computing.” Nationally and in Maine, there is a trend showing fewer women are going to college for computer science degrees, according to the report. The reason […]
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Down East magazine interviewed University of Maine paleoecologist Jacquelyn Gill for its “My Favorite Place” story. For Gill, that’s Gorham Mountain in Acadia National Park. The story notes that the Vermont native first fell in love with Acadia on an eighth-grade field trip, and as an undergraduate at the College of the Atlantic, the park […]
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The Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News and 92.9 FM The Ticket reported University of Maine head football coach Joe Harasymiak has been named a finalist for the Eddie Robinson Award, given annually to the national coach of the year in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision. Harasymiak, in his third year at the helm of […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported better-than-expected investment income, cost-cutting and an increase in tuition revenue from out-of-state students helped put an extra $15 million into the University of Maine System in the past fiscal year, according to system officials. The University of Maine, the system’s flagship campus, saw higher-than-expected revenue from out-of-state students, contributing to […]
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The Associated Press, Mainebiz, WABI (Channel 5) and Fiddlehead Focus reported the Caribou Russet potato, developed by the University of Maine, is now available in more stores throughout New England. The Caribou Russet first went to market in the fall of 2016 and has seen its popularity explode in the last two years, according to […]
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Keith Kanoti, forest manager for the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for the article, “Wet weather dampens this season’s firewood supply.” For firewood, wetness presents a problem from the start, according to the article. In addition to waterlogging the stock once it is stacked, rain compromises the […]
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The October 2018 issue (Vol. 26, No. 10) of Landings, the newsletter of the Maine Lobstermen’s Community Alliance, reported on the retirement of Bob Bayer, former director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine. Bayer, 74, grew up in New York and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in animal science at the University […]
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