Mainebiz and the Bangor Daily News reported the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor was awarded an $18.4 million grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences to strengthen biomedical research and hands-on workforce training in Maine. The five-year award ensures the continuation of the Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE), a […]
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The Associated Press, Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, WLBZ (Channel 2), WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) were among news organizations to report on University of Maine System Chancellor James Page’s announcement that he has selected Susan Hunter as the next president of the University of Maine. Hunter most […]
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Kris Burton, director of technology commercialization at the University of Maine, was mentioned in the Mainebiz article, “Top Gun entrepreneurs gain an edge with expert guidance on avoiding mistakes while growing.” The Top Gun Entrepreneurship Acceleration program is a Blackstone Accelerates Growth program offered by the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development in Portland and Bangor. […]
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A 2011 logger training survey conducted by the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources was mentioned in a Mainebiz article about three industries — shipbuilding, forestry and logging, and offshore wind and ocean energy — that are taking ownership of worker training needs. The survey found a need for greater entry-level training, with 62 […]
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Research conducted by Philip Trostel, a University of Maine professor of economics and public policy, is the focus of the Mainebiz article, “Maine’s colleges and universities struggle with shrinking budgets.” Trostel was the author of “The Fiscal Return on Higher Education in Maine,” which looks at the state benefits of greater educational attainment, such as […]
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The Penobscot Times reported on the appearance of Paul Mayewski, a University of Maine professor and director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute (CCI), on the June 9 series finale of the Showtime series “Years of Living Dangerously.” The show is a nine-part documentary series about the impact of climate change on people and the planet. […]
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The Maine Edge reported on High Touch Courses’ UMaine-affiliated Summer Technology Camp to be held in Orono. The camp is an intensive, project-based overnight and day camp for middle and high school students who want to change the world with technology. Four weeklong courses on different themes will be offered from July 7 through Aug. […]
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Patty Counihan, director of the Career Center at the University of Maine, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for the article, “Finding a job isn’t getting any easier for Maine teens.” Counihan said hiring plunged five or six years ago, but “it seems like it is coming back slowly but surely.” In 2009, she told […]
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The University of Maine’s DeepCwind Consortium was featured in an IEEE Spectrum article about developments in prototype testing of offshore wind turbines. UMaine’s prototype offshore turbine, currently floating in Penobscot Bay, is one of only five in operation around the world and the only one in the U.S. Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures […]
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A University of Maine mechanical engineering capstone project was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about the new executive director of the Maine Forest and Logging Museum in Bradley. The museum recently completed a new machinery hall, which will house a machine shop and two Lombard steam log haulers, according to the article. One […]
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