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From the Lab to the Field

The Aquaculture Research Institute launches a mussel raft to investigate potential disease benefits for farmed salmon.

UMaine Researchers Featured in Museum Video

University of Maine Climate Change Institute researchers Aaron Putnam and Toby Koffman are among those featured in a video being shown at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City about how a new technique called surface exposure dating can help them analyze how the climate has changed over time. The video “Shrinking […]

Lecturer to Speak About The Importance of Global Resilience

Jorg Imorger, the director of the Centre for Water Research at the University of Western Australia, will give a University of Maine Correll Presidential Lecture Series keynote address at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 3 in Wells Conference Center. The talk is free and open to the public. Imorger’s talk, “Building Resilience: Recognizing There is […]

Baseball Musical Opens at UMaine’s Summer Music Festival

The University of Maine Summer Music Festival is bringing together two summer traditions – baseball and musical theater – with the new musical comedy “Johnny Baseball,” which will open Friday, Aug. 3. “Johnny Baseball” will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 3, 4, 10, 11 and at 2 p.m. on Aug, 5 and 12 […]

UMaine Graduate, Now Assistant Coach, Heading to Second Olympics

For UMaine graduate and assistant coach Viktoriya Rybalko, participating in her second Summer Games is among her highest achievements.

UMaine Sustainable Agriculture Field Day July 25

A group of agricultural experts mainly from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension will lead a free, public program on sustainable farming from 3:45 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 25 at the UMaine Rogers Research Farm on Bennoch Road in Stillwater. Topics include sweet corn integrated pest management and emerging pests, crow management […]

Hirundo Canoe Tours Sundays Through September

The Hirundo Wildlife Refuge in Alton and Old Town has scheduled weekly guided canoe tours on Pushaw and Dead streams Sunday afternoons from 2-3:30 p.m. The tours offer basic canoe instruction and a chance to explore the plants and wildlife found in the streams. The ecosystem provides a great diversity of bird life and mammal […]

UMaine Extension Experts Participating in Event with Commerce Undersecretary

Two University of Maine Cooperative Extension experts will represent UMaine Extension at a public meeting Thursday in Alfred, Maine, with Kevin Concannon, U.S. Department of Agriculture undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services. UMaine Extension educators Frank Wertheim and Barbara Murphy will attend the meeting, which is sponsored by Partners for a Hunger-Free York County, […]

Story Ideas for 2012 Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium

July 22-Aug. 30 at the University of Maine For more information or to set up an interview, contact Jessica Bloch at (207) 581-3777 or jessica.bloch@umit.maine.edu; or Tilan Langley at (207) 263-6057 or tilan@schoodicsculpture.org Opening event: Meet the artists and see a slide show of their work. Free and open to the public, 7 p.m.-8:30 p.m., […]

New Technology for Composite Fencing, Decking

Researchers at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center are awarded a patent for developing a new manufacturing process.

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