Timothy Miller, laboratory manager at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, has been selected to receive the 2015 Outstanding Professional Employee Award. The annual award, presented by UMaine’s Professional Employees Advisory Council, recognizes dedication to serving others, the highest level of professional services and standards within disciplines or areas of responsibility, a commitment to […]
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Applications will be available April 1 for a University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Food Preserver course that starts June 18 at Gorham Middle School in Gorham, and at the UMaine Extension office in Falmouth. The 10 three-hour, hands-on kitchen labs are slated to be held 5:30–8:30 p.m. Thursdays through Sept. 17; dates may change […]
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The University of Maine’s University Volunteer Ambulance Corps (UVAC) recently was named a HEARTSafe CAMPUS at the National Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Foundation’s (NCEMSF) 21st annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The NCEMSF encourages and promotes community awareness of the potential for saving the lives of sudden cardiac arrest victims through the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation […]
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A new type of fiberboard invented by University of Maine researchers is made with nontoxic, biobased additives and is 25 percent stronger than conventional products. Most particleboard contains a formaldehyde-based binder that releases toxins into living spaces, causing health concerns. The UMaine fiberboard uses a safe, nontoxic binder of nanocellulose, a gel composed of small […]
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RollEase Innovation Center in Brunswick, Maine, opened in 2014 and began taking advantage of the research and development capabilities of the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC). The innovation center has collaborated with AMC in numerous projects — from testing products and new materials to doing new component design and running software programs to […]
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More than 480 middle school girls from around the state are expected to take part in the annual University of Maine conference that aims to provide a safe and encouraging environment to explore science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The 28th Expanding Your Horizons conference takes place March 12 on the UMaine campus and features […]
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Craig Russell and Kristen Russell, two members of the University of Maine’s event safety team in the Department of Safety and Environmental Management, will be among those honored as “Real Heroes” by the Pine Tree Chapter of the American Red Cross of Maine. The Real Heroes program recognizes “ordinary people doing extraordinary things,” going above […]
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Damian Brady, assistant research professor in the School of Marine Sciences, has been awarded $25,294 to improve a sediment model of the Chester River in Maryland in order to enhance the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Modeling Package that is utilized to clean the bay. Water-quality models provide information about how much pollution — in the form […]
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Youth in grades K–12 are invited to learn about horses with large animal veterinarians at a University of Maine 4-H Science Saturday workshop from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 4 at the J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center, 160 University Farm Road, Orono. Youth will learn to use stethoscopes on a model of a […]
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The National Science Foundation awarded $657,000 to Acadia Harvest Inc. (AHI), which is working to achieve a commercial-scale, land-based, indoor Maine seafood farm with low to zero waste. AHI, which formed in 2011, has conducted collaborative research at the University of Maine Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR) in Franklin, to advance the technology of […]
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