WVII (Channel 7) reported the University of Maine and the Bangor School Department have finalized an agreement that will allow students in the Bangor STEM Academy to earn college credits before they graduate. The deal will allow students who complete the program’s requirements to use up to 30 credit hours toward an engineering degree at […]
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Mainebiz reported on a 21 percent increase in enrollment at the University of Maine’s Maine Business School. The school reached a record enrollment this year with 947 undergraduate students, up from 785 students last year. Mainebiz cited a previous Bangor Daily News report.
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Robert Wagner, a forestry professor at the University of Maine and director of the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests, was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article about a five-year deal state forestry officials made with J.D. Irving Ltd., Maine’s largest landowner, allowing the company to exempt its 1.25 million acres of forestland from […]
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The Bangor Daily News wrote a piece about the all-time high undergraduate enrollment at the Maine Business School (MBS) at the University of Maine. MBS Dean Ivan Manev says the school attracts students for a host of reasons. There are accessible faculty who are experts in their fields, a new concentration in entrepreneurship, high post-graduate […]
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Penobscot Bay Pilot reported on the $1.8 million National Science Foundation grant awarded to a multidisciplinary team of researchers to examine the impact of rising ocean temperatures on the ecology and economics of the Gulf of Maine. Andrew Pershing from the University of Maine and Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) is leading the four-year […]
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The Kennebec Journal previewed the State Class B Football Championship between Eastern champ Cony and Western victor Kennebunk to be played at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 22 on Morse Field at Harold Alfond Stadium at the University of Maine.
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The Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News reported that while fall enrollment in the University of Maine System is down 2 percent from a year ago, enrollment at the University of Maine is up 3.2 percent. WGME (Channel 13), the Sun Journal in Lewiston, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Post Intelligencer, NECN.com, WLBZ […]
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The University of Maine’s 9,000-pound offshore wind turbine prototype VolturnUS is featured in an Al Jazeera America article titled “A turning point for offshore wind energy?” The article describes the “floating lab” that since this summer has been collecting data and producing enough energy for five homes off the coast of Castine, Maine. It also […]
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Bangor Daily News editorial page editor Erin Rhoda highlights University of Maine graduate student Rachael Joyce in a blog titled Arguably. Joyce, who is studying civil engineering and works at the university’s Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center developing offshore wind turbine technology, also assists her boyfriend with Volition Ski Co. — a startup company […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) and Bangor Daily News reported on the first of three public meetings being held by University of Maine representatives to share updates on the planned 12-megawatt offshore wind demonstration project by Maine Aqua Ventus GP LLC. During the first meeting in Friendship, university officials including Jake Ward, UMaine’s vice president for innovation […]
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