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LePage Talks About UMaine in Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting Article

Gov. Paul LePage spoke about the University of Maine and its proposed offshore wind pilot project for an in-depth article on the governor by the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. LePage, who is a UMaine alumnus, called the land grant university a “pretty good organization” and spoke about his preference for the institution over […]

Dagher Quoted in Engineering News Record Article on Proposed Offshore Wind Project

Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine, spoke with Engineering News Record about efforts by the UMaine-led DeepCwind Consortium to build a 12-MW offshore wind farm in the Gulf of Maine by 2017. Dagher, leader of the consortium, said VolturnUS 1:8, the floating test turbine the group […]

Living on Earth Interviews Rasher About Copepods

Rachel Lasley Rasher, a biologist at the University of Maine’s Marine Darling Center, was interviewed for a Living on Earth segment titled “Copepod Love.” Rasher spoke about how the tiny crustaceans track down suitable mates for the report by Public Radio International’s environmental news magazine.

UMaine, Department of Education Launch Autism Resource, Research Institute

The University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development has partnered with the Maine Department of Education to create a statewide system of supports for Mainers who serve children with autism and their families. The Maine Autism Institute for Education and Research (MAIER) will open Jan. 1, 2014 on the UMaine campus. Deborah Rooks-Ellis, […]

Waller Blogs About Patagonian Fjords

University of Maine marine scientist Rhian Waller shares experiences and photographs from her recent deep-sea coral expedition in Chile in her blogs on the National Geographic website. In September, Waller traveled to Huinay Scientific Field Station near the northern Patagonian fjords to collect final samples from a yearlong deep-sea coral monitoring program studying how climate […]