Prof. Emeritus Katherine Musgrave from the UMaine Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition has earned selection to the Maine Women’s Hall of Fame. Musgrave and Sen. Susan Collins will be inducted during a March 19 ceremony at the University of Maine at Augusta. The Maine Federation of Business and Professional Women established the hall […]
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Contact: Habib Dagher, (207) 581-2138 or hd@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center has been issued a patent (US Patent #7,862,675) for a method of prestressing glued-laminated timber beams that significantly increases the strength of the wood for use in bridges and other structures. Associate Professor of civil engineering Mac Gray […]
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UMaine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture graduate students will make a series of Friday March 18 presentations as part of the college’s graduate student research awards competition. The 20-minute presentations, which begin at 1:10 p.m. and continue until 4, are scheduled for Room 57 of Stodder Hall. Scheduled to present are UMaine students […]
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UMaine junior distance runner Riley Masters broke his own school record in the mile on Saturday, running 3:58.17 during the Valentine Invitational at Boston University. This marks the second time that the Bangor native has broken the four-minute mile mark, and it qualifies him for the NCAA Championships in that event. More information is in […]
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Comments from Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty are included in an Associated Press story about the influence of the Maine Legislature’s Moderate Caucus, a group of at least 45 lawmakers that Brewer predicts will become “a key player” in legislative decisions.
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UMaine College of Business, Public Policy and Health Dean Ivan Manev wrote a column, “Prosperity starts with business,” in Saturday’s Bangor Daily News. It was the first installment in the newspaper’s “The Deans of Business” feature, a series of columns to be written by Manev and the business deans at Husson University and the University […]
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WABI television broadcast a Saturday report about UMaine’s winter carnival activities. The story included an interview with E.J. Roach, UMaine’s director of campus activities.
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a story about a Friday UMaine presentation by Hunter College Prof. Virginia Valian. An expert on gender issues, Valian gave a talk, “Why so slow? The advancement of women.” It was the public kick-off event presented by UMaine’s Rising Tide Center, an effort aimed at advancing women academics in science, […]
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A Wall Street Journal article about 10 of the most unique college hockey arenas in the nation included the University of Maine’s Alfond Ice Arena as having the best atmosphere. The article says “Games at Maine’s Alfond Arena feel like the hockey version of Friday Night Lights. The crowd is a mix of diehard locals […]
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Bruce A. Stanton, a 1974 UMaine graduate who is the Andrew C. Vail Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center of the Environmental Health Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School, will present a Wednesday Feb. 23 lecture at his alma mater. Stanton’s presentation, “Arsenic, a Global Public Health Crisis: How Safe is our Water and Food?,” […]
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