The Bangor Daily News mentioned the University of Maine’s Stormwater Management Research Team (SMART) Institute in an article about Paige Brown, a 16-year-old Bangor High School student and program participant. Brown also delivered the keynote address at the three-day program that focused on creating innovative solutions to environmental problems related to stormwater management. Brown is […]
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The Weekly and The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release about scientists who traveled to Mongolia to learn about processes that launch Earth out of an ice age. Aaron Putnam, a research associate with UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, is conducting glacial geology research with doctoral student Peter Strand. Fieldwork will include mapping […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the University of Maine’s Stormwater Management Research Team (SMART) Institute, a three-day program that focuses on creating innovative solutions to environmental problems related to stormwater management. About 100 students and teacher from high schools around the state participated in the program that aims to engage a diverse group of students […]
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Carol Kim, vice president for research and dean of the graduate school at the University of Maine, was quoted in an InsuranceNewsNet article about new technology that aims to help older adults stay at home. Kim, who recently testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, said “edge detection” offers new ways for senior […]
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According to an article in the Portland Press Herald, The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved $1 billion toward the construction of an additional DDG-51 destroyer, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins announced Thursday. If the funding bill becomes law, the additional destroyer would likely be built at Bath Iron Works. The defense appropriations bill will also provide […]
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University of Maine researcher Jacquelyn Gill and student Chason Frost were mentioned in a story about an excavation at Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota in the Rapid City Journal. The story compared Frost to a Gold Rush-era prospector who “carefully bathed a pan full of rock and course (sic) sediment in a small […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported 10 finalists will compete Wednesday, June 3 for the $10,000 Top Gun Showcase grand prize at the University of Southern Maine’s Abromson Center in Portland. The competitors were chosen from 35 startups that were members of the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development’s (MCED) 2015 Top Gun program. The Top Gun […]
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A partnership between the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) and Aroostook County-based company Ecoshel was mentioned in a Mainebiz article about a grassroots effort to advance the forest products sector and job creation in Aroostook County. Aroostook Partnership for Progress, a public-private organization created to spur economic development in Maine’s northernmost county, is […]
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The Weekly reported that Andrew Moreira, a senior at Old Town High School, recently earned first place in the High School Poster Competition at the 2015 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference. Moreira’s poster, “Recovering Organic Acids from Water Through Extraction and Precipitation,” derives from the research he conducted through his Maine EPSCoR (Experimental Program to […]
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The Associated Press, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald and Maine Public Broadcasting Network reported University of Maine President Susan J. Hunter has agreed to extend her two-year post for an extra year. University of Maine System Chancellor James Page and the system board of trustees requested that she continue her work through June 30, […]
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