Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was included in a Mainebiz article about legislation introduced by Sens. Susan Collins and Tom Carper to create financial incentives to spur the country’s emerging offshore wind industry. The Incentivizing Offshore Wind Power Act would create an investment tax credit redeemable […]
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Dana Morse, an aquaculture researcher with Maine Sea Grant, and Joshua Stoll, an assistant research professor of marine policy with the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, were mentioned in a Portland Press Herald story about Georgetown resident Pat Burns. He co-founded Georgetown Aquaculture to help locals find alternatives to traditional fisheries. Morse has […]
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Casey Rogers, a rising senior at the University of Maine, shared her experience as a summer intern with the Maine Department of Education Migrant Education Program, with the Sun Journal. The Farmington native who majors in social work has been traveling to meet migrant workers harvesting broccoli in Aroostook County. “It was still just so […]
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Gulf Seafood Institute representatives wanting to learn how to jump-start an aquaculture hub in the Gulf of Mexico toured several facilities in Maine, including the University of Maine Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research in Franklin. According to SeafoodSource, the 24 fishermen, scientists and state officials explored successful aquaculture companies and met seafood farmers. Carrie Castille, […]
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The Bangor Daily News highlighted University of Maine students Ian MacLellan, Parker Anderson, Kameron Haines and Madison Lawler, who are operating this season’s Black Bear Food Guild — an organic vegetable farm and community share agriculture (CSA) program at Rogers Farm. “I want to run my own farm one day, and this is a really […]
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A number of media outlets, including the Portland Press Herald, covered Jesse Orach and Rob Gomez’s dramatic finish at the TD Bank Beach to Beacon 10K race Saturday. Orach, who had a stellar academic, track and cross-country career at the University of Maine and was highlighted in the inaugural Black Bear Nation athletics magazine, won […]
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Jack Cosgrove, senior associate director of athletics at the University of Maine, and Seth Woodcock, senior associate athletic director for development, were quoted in a Bangor Daily News article about the Alfond Fund Ambassadors program that helps teams meet demands of NCAA Division I athletic programs, strengthens the Black Bear brand and creates a strong […]
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Mainebiz and WVII (Channel 7) reported the University of Maine and Eastern Maine Community College signed a memorandum of understanding that allows EMCC students in designated programs to easily transfer credits toward a bachelor’s degree at Maine’s flagship campus. The memorandum is intended to streamline admission opportunities for academically qualified students and graduates of EMCC, […]
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Robert Dana, the University of Maine’s vice president for student life and dean of students, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for the article, “Maine colleges defend emphasis on diversity in response to report of Trump initiative.” Maine college and university officials are defending their commitment to diversity in response to reports that the Trump […]
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WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) reported on the making of the 2016 documentary “Whatever Works: Exploring Opiate Addiction.” The hourlong film was produced in a University of Maine at Machias video class led by Alan Kryszak. When Kryszak was searching for a topic for his documentary class, the state’s heroin and opioid crisis stood out, […]
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