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Blackstone Accelerates Growth and UMaine Receive Champion Award from the Maine Development Foundation for the Innovate for Maine Fellows Program

Blackstone Accelerates Growth and its partner, the University of Maine Foster Center for Student Innovation today, were recognized for the Innovate for Maine Fellows program. The program, designed to give Maine undergraduate and graduate students opportunities to work with innovative Maine companies, was launched in 2012. It is a cornerstone of the Blackstone Accelerates Growth […]

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Annual Maine EPSCoR Conference Focuses on Supporting State’s R&D Capacity

Supporting Maine’s R&D capacity through workforce development, technology and science communication is the focus of the 2013 Maine EPSCoR State Conference at the University of Maine Sept. 30. The conference, which begins at 8 a.m., in Wells Conference Center, is free and open to the public. This year’s annual conference of Maine EPSCoR — an […]

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UMaine Awarded $735,000 for Stormwater Management Study Aimed at Students Often Underrepresented in STEM Fields

Empowering female and minority high school students, their teachers and communities to create innovative solutions to the environmental problems related to stormwater management is the goal of a new three-year project at the University of Maine, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The more than $735,000 award from NSF’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive […]

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Japanese Delegation at UMaine for Marine Energy International Symposium

An 11-member delegation of scientists and industry officials from Japan, including the president of Hirosaki University, will be at the University of Maine Sept. 16–18 for the second Marine Energy International Symposium. UMaine President Paul Ferguson and Hirosaki University President Kei Sato will open the symposium, designed to be a collaborative exchange between researchers in […]

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Grant to Stem Tide of Losing Female Faculty

An initiative to transform the University of Maine by enhancing opportunities for women has received an additional $284,093 from the National Science Foundation. The supplemental funds will be used to develop a regional consortium to assist in the retention of female science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) faculty by facilitating dual-career hiring –– providing opportunities […]

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