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Mainebiz, BDN Cover Statoil Project with UMaine Researchers
Mainebiz and the Bangor Daily News carried reports about the progress of Statoil North America’s plans for an offshore wind energy pilot project in the Gulf of Maine. Statoil has been working with researchers at the University of Maine to test materials and hone floating turbine technology.
Read moreUMaine Study Cited in Arizona Daily Star Article
An Arizona Daily Star article, “University of Arizona fraternity’s ouster should sound an alarm for parents,” cited a 2008 University of Maine study on hazing. The study found 55 percent of students who join fraternities, sororities, sports teams or other student groups experience hazing.
Read moreWVII Reports on UMaine Connection to Bangor High School STEM Program
WVII (Channel 7) reported Bangor High School students in the STEM academy will be able to conduct summer research internships with mentors, many of them University of Maine faculty members, thanks to a $54,000 grant from the Bangor Savings Bank Foundation.
Read moreDagher Talks to Press Herald About Offshore Wind Testing
The Portland Press Herald spoke with Habib Dagher, UMaine Professor and head of the school’s Offshore Wind Laboratory, about his team’s plan to launch a test turbine in late May off Castine. The team plans to launch a $1 million model, made of advanced composites, that is one-eighth the size of its planned Aqua Ventus […]
Read moreSteneck Report Cited in Press Herald Article on Lobster Bycatch
A Portland Press Herald article on a proposal to allow fishermen to keep and sell lobsters they catch in trawling nets cited a 2011 report by University of Maine School of Marine Sciences Professor Bob Steneck. Steneck’s report said if lobster bycatch were allowed it could create a “perverse incentive for draggers to target large […]
Read moreBricknell’s Research Cited on The Fish Site
An article about research by University of Maine School of Marine Sciences Professor Ian Bricknell was recently included on The Fish Site. Bricknell’s research looked at how using mussels in an Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture system can reduce the threat of ISA to fish.
Read moreWu Receives Top Pan-American Award
Vivian Chi-Hua Wu, associate professor of microbiology and food safety at the University of Maine, has won a 2012 Bimbo Pan-American Nutrition, Food Science and Technology Award. The award recognizes the best research projects in the fields of nutrition, food science and technology throughout the Americas. Wu will receive $5,000 for her technology project, “A […]
Read moreMedical Xpress Covers UMaine Research on Early Methadone Exposure
Medical Xpress included an article on University of Maine doctoral student Beth Logan’s research on children exposed to methadone in the womb.
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