The Bangor Daily News reported the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded almost $1 million to Maine to help pay for gathering data on violent deaths using the National Violent Death Reporting System over the next five years. The grant will allow the state to compile information about the relationships between domestic […]
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The Working Waterfront spoke with John Rebar, executive director of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, and Anne Lichtenwalner, director of UMaine’s Animal Health Laboratory, about Question 2 on the November ballot that will ask Maine voters to approve an $8 million bond for animal and plant diagnostic services. The bond would allow UMaine Extension […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported students and faculty from colleges across Maine are preparing 10,000 protein-packed meals to be donated to campus-based food pantries statewide. The meal packing is part of the two-day Maine Hunger Dialogue at the University of Maine’s Wells Conference Center that aims to mobilize the power of higher education to end hunger […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the 2014 Engineering Job Fair held at the University of Maine’s New Balance Student Recreation Center. About 90 companies were represented at the event that was co-sponsored by the UMaine College of Engineering and Career Center. Patty Counihan, director of the Career Center, said UMaine’s Engineering Department has a 99 […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, WABI (Channel 5), WLBZ (Channel 2) and SB Nation covered the announcement of the Savage Challenge, a five-year endowment drive for the University of Maine men’s ice hockey program that will be launched by a $1 million donation to UMaine by alumnus Tom Savage and his wife, Sally, […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the article, “UMaine sports clubs provide varied, valuable athletic and educational experiences.” UMaine has 30 active sports clubs that will provide athletic and recreational opportunities for more than 700 students this year, according to the article. “It’s really about the students’ passion for their sport. Some of them come with […]
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The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center was featured in a U.S. Department of Energy blog post from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, titled “EERE celebrates offshore wind in Maine.” The post references the successful first year of the VolturnUS floating wind turbine deployed off Castine. UMaine used $12 million […]
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Phys.org and The Maine Edge published a University of Maine article on research by marine scientist Nathan Briggs. Briggs is studying the movement of carbon dioxide into the deep ocean to improve climate projections and understanding of deep-sea ecosystems. He begins a two-year postdoctoral fellowship research project in France that’s funded, in part, by a […]
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Announcements of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honored three recipients and cited other researchers involved in similar pioneering research, including UMaine physicist Sam Hess. Eric Betzig of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Stefan Hell of the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, and William Moerner of Stanford were awarded the $1.1 million Nobel […]
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The Portland Press Herald, WLBZ (Channel 2), WMTW (Channel 8) and The Forecaster covered a ceremony held at the University of Maine’s Regional Learning Center at Tidewater Farm in Falmouth to award Howard Reiche Jr. with a master’s degree he started in 1950. After graduating from Bowdoin College, Reiche enrolled at UMaine to pursue a […]
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