Jake Ward, the University of Maine’s vice president for innovation and economic development, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News article, “Old Town leaders consider $3M bond to buy defunct mill land, warehouses.” City leaders are working toward purchasing the 40-acre defunct mill site along the Penobscot River, which is owned by a consortium of […]
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Research conducted at the University of Maine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions was featured in SSPP Blog, the weekly blog of the journal Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy. The blog post, “The Cooperative University: An Emerging Model?” includes quotes from center director David Hart, as well as information on work led by […]
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Penn State Abington and Brandywine general engineering students used a mobile telepresence robot — an iPad attached to a self-balancing vehicle — to collaborate with students at the University of Maine, according to a Penn State news release. For the project, Abington/Brandywine students remotely operated the robot at the PopTech Conference in Camden, Maine, where […]
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Recent graduate Noelle Leon-Palmer says the University of Maine provided her a rewarding college experience in the classroom studying biology and writing an honors thesis, as well as on the field as a member of the women’s soccer team. Leon-Palmer, of Ajax, a town in Ontario, Canada, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in […]
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The University of Maine-led New England Aqua Ventus I floating offshore wind pilot project was profiled in the Renewable Energy article, “Are floating turbines the future of wind energy?” There are currently dozens of pilot projects testing floating turbines — which consist of a wind turbine mounted on a buoyant structure — capable of generating […]
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University of Maine researchers were mentioned in the Bangor Daily News article, “How Acadia National Park may adapt to changes in the future.” Acadia National Park biologist Bill Gawley monitors air and water quality in the park, and for the past three years has worked with UMaine researchers on the Jordan Pond Buoy Project, according […]
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Elizabeth Allan, executive director of StopHazing.org and professor of higher education at the University of Maine, was cited in an Inside Higher Ed report on a recent hearing of the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee. Allan provided expert testimony as part of the roundtable discussion, “Campus Safety: Improving Prevention and Response […]
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Research being conducted by Joel Tebbenkamp, a University of Maine Ph.D. student in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology, was featured in the Bangor Daily News article, “Why are spruce grouse declining in the Northeast? Study aims to find out why,” by Bob Duchesne, vice president of Maine Audubon’s Penobscot Valley Chapter. The […]
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SSPP Blog, the weekly blog of the journal Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, cited a paper by David Hart, director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine. Hart’s article, “Mobilizing the power of higher education to tackle the grand challenge of sustainability: Lessons from novel initiatives,” was […]
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