The University of Maine will bolster its research efforts in offshore wind and tidal energy with the appointment of Krish P. Thiagarajan as the first Alston D. and Ada Lee Correll Presidential Chair in Energy.
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Parents of children with autistic spectrum disorders are invited to a free public presentation by a leading authority on the subject who currently is a visiting professor at the University of Maine.
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U.S. Senator Susan Collins announced Thursday that she has secured a commitment from the White House that the Department of Agriculture’s New England Plant, Soil and Water Laboratory (NEPSWL) at the University of Maine will remain open.
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UMaine Libra Foundation Professor of Engineering Michael “Mick” Peterson is the co-author on a white paper released Wednesday about the current state of knowledge pertaining to training and racing surfaces for horse, according to a post on the Handicapper’s Edge, a daily racing news website. Peterson, who is quoted in the website’s story, is also […]
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The Somali Narrative Project, a successful oral history collection collaborative among four University of Maine faculty members with residents of the Lewiston-Auburn area Somali population, has resulted in the publication of a new book about the experiences of the newly arrived residents in their own words.
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Crews are scheduled to begin construction on a sidewalk project on Tuesday June 14. The work will occur on Sebago Road (the road that runs between Hitchner Hall and Norman Smith Hall). It will require intermittent one-way traffic on Sebago Road. The project should take approximately two weeks to complete.
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The Orono Land Trust and the Bangor Land Trust, working for several years with multiple partners and donors, including the University of Maine, have successfully secured the permanent conservation of 2,738 additional acres of working forests, meadows, wetlands and lakeshores in Bangor, Orono and Old Town. They’ll celebrate the achievement this week.
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The Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine has received a Maine Humanities Council grant to develop an audio and slide presentation on the history and culture of the now-closed Stinson seafood cannery in Prospect Harbor.
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The Waterville Morning Sentinel had a story about the robotics team at Messalonskee High School in Oakland, and included a comment from senior Blake Bourque, a member of the team robotics team. Bourque, who said he is going to start at UMaine this fall with a major in electrical and computer engineering, told the newspaper […]
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ORONO, Maine – The University of Maine will host the Haskell/IEEE Conference from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, June 24, at Wells Conference Center on the UMaine campus.
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