An organic grain grower from Benedicta, working with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Potato Board, is testing field peas, chickpeas and lentils, as possible third rotation crops for potato farmers in Aroostook County, the Bangor Daily News reported. The trials are taking place at Aroostook Farm, UMaine Extension’s potato research facility and […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reports U.S. Sen. Angus King will be at the University of Maine Friday to help announce a forest bio-based manufacturing partnership between the university and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. During his visit, King will receive a private briefing on the project and tour the Alfond Advanced Manufacturing Lab for Structural Thermoplastics.
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Bob Steneck is cited in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine, which includes a package on the importance of saving the world’s oceans. The University of Maine oceanographer was interviewed for an article about conservation of Buck Island off St. Croix in the Caribbean. Despite President John F. Kennedy creating an 880-acre Buck […]
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Local Xpress of Halifax, Nova Scotia cited the University of Maine as one of several academic institutions, working with Fundy Ocean Research Center for Energy to collect data on the performance of a demonstration turbine in the Minas Passage in the Bay of Fundy.
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The Bangor Daily News cited a study by the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine in the article, “Here’s what Trump spiking an Asia trade deal could mean for Maine.” In one of his first acts in office, President Donald Trump officially withdrew the United States from negotiations for the Trans-Pacific […]
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Marie Hayes, a psychology professor who researches opiate-exposed infants at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News report on addressing infant mortality in Maine. Maine is the only state to see a higher infant mortality rate in this decade (2005 to 2014) than the previous decade (1995 to 2004), according to […]
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After one of Michelle Smith’s recent genetics classes at the University of Maine, several students approached her to compliment the lesson. “I wish that happened to me every time I teach a class,” says Smith, an innovative science educator and of one six University of Maine faculty members who designed that day’s lesson to help […]
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The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7), WLBZ (Channel 2), CompositesWorld and Mainebiz reported Advanced Infrastructure Technologies (AIT), a University of Maine spinoff company, has signed a distribution and marketing agreement for North America with Terre Armee Group/Reinforced Earth Company. The agreement will help grow adoption of UMaine’s patented composite arch bridge […]
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U.S. Sen. Angus King invited U.S. Secretary of Energy nominee Rick Perry to come to the University of Maine to learn about energy projects UMaine is working on with the federal government, the Portland Press Herald reported. King extended the invitation during Perry’s confirmation hearing before the Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “(The University […]
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What can you learn by studying 100 years of academic writing about rural education in the United States? For Catharine Biddle, assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, it’s this: the more things change, the more they stay the same. “If you look at the case we follow, it’s like the conversations […]
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