Habib Dagher, director of UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, was quoted in a Maine Sunday Telegram story about the future of the Ocean Energy Institute following the Aug. 8 death of its founder, Matthew Simmons. Under Simmons’ leadership, the institute has worked to promote and develop ocean-related energy initiatives in Maine, including the […]
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Comments from UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Dick Brzozowski are featured in a Kennebec Journal story about 2010’s “perfect summer for pumpkins.” Brzozowski says that vine crops thrive in hot, dry conditions, as long as they get plenty of water.
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Tuesday’s Lewiston Sun Journal includes a story featuring comments from Cooperative Extension’s David Fuller, talking about late blight and its impact on Maine potatoes and tomatoes. Fuller described Extension research into developing blight-resistant varieties of those crops
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Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News includes an extensive preview of the 2010-2011 season at UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts. The annual gala is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 11, when the Broadway vocalists Christina Saffran Ashford and Norman Large will perform with the Bangor Symphony Orchestra in an 8 p.m. concert.
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All UMaine graduate faculty members, graduate students with their families and support staff members are invited to the annual Graduate School picnic, Wednesday Sept. 14 from 4-6 p.m. This event is scheduled for the Stodder Hall patio, located on the building’s east side. The rain date is Thursday Sept. 16.
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Contact: Andrew Pershing, Research Scientist, 207-228-1656; Ron Lisnet, 207-581-3779 Decades of whaling and fishing for the largest species have altered the ability of oceans to store and sequester carbon, according to a team of marine researchers from the University of Maine, the University of British Columbia and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI). An […]
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Contact: Charlie Slavin, Dean of the Honors College, (207) 581-3262 slavin@honors.umaine.edu Emily Cain, Coordinator of Advancement, Honors College, (207) 58103308 emily.cain@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Two University of Maine Honors College students have been selected to each receive a $1,000 Charles V. Stanhope ’71 Study Abroad Fellowship to support them as they study abroad this academic year. […]
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Offshore Wind Wire, which tracks stories about wind energy, named University of Maine, including the AEWC Advanced Structures and Composite Center director Habib Dagher, a world leader in deepwater floating turbine technology. The Maine Public Utilities Commission released Wednesday a request for proposals for the state’s deepwater offshore wind pilot project.
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A hazing study conducted by UMaine professors Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden was mentioned in a blog posting about a rally in response to a fraternity hazing incident at the University of South Florida. The study found that more than half (55 percent) of students report they experienced a specific behavior that was defined as […]
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The Bangor Daily News wrote about a $12.3 million grant awarded to the UMaine-based Maine Center for Research in STEM Education, or RiSE, to redesign the physical science curriculum at 48 schools in Maine. The grant will be used to form the Maine Physical Sciences Partnership, which will create 12 jobs and generate curricula for […]
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