Kathryn Hopkins, University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator in the Somerset County office in Skowhegan, who co-founded the New England Maple Grading School in 2003, has received this year’s international Golden Maple Leaf Award for developing and running the program. The annual fall event, now called the Maple Grading School, is scheduled through 2014, when […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) on Monday covered the Maine Business School’s Job and Internship Fair, attended by UMaine students and more than 30 companies interested in meeting potential employees or interns. Nory Jones, director of graduate business programs, was among those interviewed. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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UMaine’s Office of Industrial Cooperation was mentioned in a MaineBiz magazine story about the Maine Clean Tech Corridor, a collaborative campaign to encourage clean tech investment and to attract to Maine small to medium-sized clean tech companies that cannot easily or affordably access necessary services elsewhere in New England. Tom Brubaker, the head of the […]
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Two websites ran stories about the findings of UMaine engineer Clay Wheeler, who has discovered a relatively simple pathway to take wood and convert it into biofuel. BioRefining Magazine noted that the process removes most of the oxygen from the oil, a key step that distinguishes Wheeler’s process from other methods. The website Oil Price […]
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A letter to the editor in New Hampshire’s Hampton Union newspaper about the topic of nuclear power plants mentioned UMaine’s research into the potential for deepwater offshore wind energy. The letter argued that wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine might make unnecessary the restart of a nuclear reactor in New Hampshire. UMaine’s AEWC Advanced […]
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A Bangor Daily News report on the new chiller system under the ice at Alfond Arena noted some on-ice issues during Saturday night’s UMaine men’s hockey game against Providence College. Scott White, the Alfond Arena operations manager, said there were some problems regulating the temperature of the ice, but that is normal for a new […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Maine Harvest for Hunger Program this year generated 179,712 pounds of fresh garden produce donated to charity by volunteer gardeners around the state.
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University of Maine Museum of Art Director George Kinghorn will host an informal gallery talk at the museum, in downtown Bangor, on Wednesday Nov. 9 at 12 noon. The talk, and accompanying tour, will cover the Carlo Pittore exhibition “Studio Life,” at the museum through December 30. The presentation, part of the museum’s ART@NOON gallery […]
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The UMaine Parking Services Office reminds commuters that UMaine’s winter parking ban begins tonight and continues through May 1, 2012. During that time period all staff, commuter and visitor lots close at midnight and reopen at 6 a.m. (even if it is not snowing). Please remember that the Bridge Tennis Court Lot and the South […]
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The Maine Chinese Conference, held last week in Bangor, featured two speakers from UMaine, according to a Bangor Daily News report. Jeff Hecker, dean of UMaine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and UMaine modern languages Professor Ray Pelletier, both spoke at the conference, which aims to promote educational and business relationships between Maine and […]
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