reNEWS reported that the University of Maine is a partner in a research team to create a wave energy converter that was one of five projects selected to receive $4.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office. The team, comprising Enorasy, Raytheon and Draper […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal article, “Maine puts new voting system to the test.” Maine voters will be able to choose more than one candidate in crowded primaries, including contests for the governor’s race, according to the article. Voters in 2016 approved […]
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The County reported the SAD 1 Presque Isle Career and Technical Center has announced a dual-enrollment opportunity for students in the drafting and engineering technology program. As a result of a collaboration between the University of Maine College of Engineering, Bridge Year Educational Services Inc. and the technical center, beginning in fall 2018, students enrolled […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported Tora Johnson, an associate professor of geographic information systems (GIS) and environmental studies at the University of Maine at Machias, will discuss the current and future impacts of climate change at the Southwest Harbor Public Library from 5:30–7 p.m. June 12. Johnson will speak about climate change effects in the area […]
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The Bangor Daily News referenced a University of Maine Cooperative Extension fact sheet in an article about a forest tent caterpillar invasion in Blue Hill. According to “Pest Management Fact Sheet #5022: Forest and Eastern Tent Caterpillars,” the caterpillars’ favorite hosts are oak, poplar, maple and birch trees. The caterpillars mature in June, with adult […]
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The Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier reported Union Church in Biddeford will host a panel discussion on ending hunger in Maine from 7 to 8:30 p.m. June 10. Panelists are expected to include Justin Alfond, former president of Maine’s Senate and co-founder of Full Plates Full Potential; Frank Wertheim, an associate professor of agriculture with the University of […]
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WABI (Channel 5), Mainebiz, the Bangor Daily News and the Associated Press reported the University of Maine will receive a $2,570,600 grant to lead a coalition of New England universities in the creation of a University Transportation Center (UTC). UMaine will receive about $14 million over the next five years toward leading transportation research to […]
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Susan Gardner, director of the University of Maine’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program and Rising Tide Center, as well as a professor of higher education, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on how implicit bias manifests itself and what people can do to understand their own […]
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Eric Gallandt, a professor of weed ecology at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Times Record article on locally grown lettuce. Springworks Organics, a Lisbon company founded by a Bowdoin College student, is providing a locally sourced sustainable option for greens at a time when more people are thinking about where their food […]
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The Associated Press, Metro, Newsweek, Boston magazine, United Press International, WBZ (Channel 4 in Boston), WHDH (Channel 7 in Boston), The Washington Post, CBS News and Richland Standard cited statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine in a report of a rare orange lobster discovered at a Massachusetts supermarket. Roche Bros. Supermarkets said workers at […]
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