Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was interviewed for an article on the Hydrogen Fuel News website about UMaine’s development of prototype wind-energy test turbines for a planned offshore, floating wind farm, once the technology proves successful in demonstration models.
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialists coordinating the Maine AgrAbility project have offered a number of safety considerations for people who must work outdoors in cold and inclement weather. They include dressing to accommodate changing weather conditions, keeping safety gear, a first aid kit, a pocket multi-tool, headlamp and a cell phone handy, having proper […]
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In her Bangor Daily news blog Pollways, University of Maine professor of political science Amy Fried discussed the issue of gun control in the aftermath of the Newtown, Conn. elementary school shootings, and heroism of teachers shown during the massacre.
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The Bangor Daily News has published an essay by University of Maine history professor Howard Segal about the original intentions of the Morrill Act of 1862, which provided for the creation of land grant universities in the United States.
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Comments from George Kinghorn, director and curator of the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor, were included in a Channel 5 (WABI) report that admission to the museum will remain free to the public through 2013 as a result of financial support from Penobscot Financial Advisors of Bangor.
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In a news release posted on her office website, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe has congratulated the University of Maine for recent U.S. Department of Energy grant funding to continue work developing what will eventually become the nation’s first offshore, floating wind-energy farm. The senator said the funding is potentially worth up to $47 million.
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The Bangor Daily News reported that two University of Maine faculty members, gkisedtanamoogk, a Wampanoag from Cape Cod who now teaches in the UMaine Native American Studies and the Peace and Reconciliation programs, and Gail Werrbach, director of the School of Social Work, have been named to a five-member panel, the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare […]
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The mid-coast newspaper Penobscot Bay Pilot published a news release about plans by the University of Maine and wind energy development partners in the DeepCwind Consortium to float a prototype wind turbine down the Penobscot River to the coast, where it will be moored offshore to test the technology behind plans for a full-scale wind […]
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An article on the Alternative Energy eMagazine website reported that energy and environmental attorney Jeff Thaler, a visiting professor of energy law and policy at the University of Maine School of Law and UMaine School of Economics, has written two guides for potential developers and others to navigate federal, state and local laws and regulations […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that admission to the University of Maine Museum of Art on Harlow Street in Bangor will be free to the public throughout 2013 as a result of a gift from Penobscot Financial Advisors, formerly known as Bradley & Johndrow, LLC in Bangor.
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