Gregory Porter, chairman of the Department of Plant, Soil and Environmental Sciences; and Matt Schultheis, a student in Porter’s lab, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network for a report about a new potato variety created by UMaine and the Maine Potato Board. Porter described the Caribou Russett as having high quality for fresh consumption, […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported University of Maine student Spencer Wood was named the winner of the latest Big Gig pitch-off finale at the University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation. Finalists from the last three Big Gig pitch-off events competed for a $1,500 grand prize sponsored by University Credit Union. Wood presented the app […]
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Fuel cells are alternative energy-generation devices that provide continuous electricity with low to zero emissions at the source. NASA first used modern fuel cells in space vehicles. Today, fuels cells provide power in a variety of applications, including automobiles, backup generators, fork lifts and portable electronic devices. One type of fuel cell, the proton exchange membrane […]
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The Portland Press Herald spoke with John Belding, director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center, for an article about a new report that says Maine is trailing the rest of New England in developing advanced manufacturing jobs, which require a higher set of skills and also pay better than traditional manufacturing. The report, […]
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A Bowdoin College student’s experience in the Innovate for Maine Fellows program was the focus of a post on the Bangor Daily News blog, “Disruptive Growth: Entrepreneurship in Maine and the people, policy and issues related to it.” The student spoke about his participation in the program that is based in the University of Maine’s […]
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University of Maine professors and Center for Research on Sustainable Forests leaders Sandra De Urioste-Stone and Robert Lilieholm spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network about a study they are conducting to identify sustainable economic development pathways for the Penobscot River corridor that protect and leverage the region’s natural resources and quality of place. The […]
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Mainebiz reported the University of Maine Alumni Association will host the second annual Black Bear Business Conference on April 24 at Buchanan Alumni House. Tom’s of Maine Founder Tom Chappell is scheduled as a guest speaker at the half-day event. The conference aims to bring Maine’s small business owners and entrepreneurs together with economic development […]
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Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine; and Anthony Viselli, an engineer at the UMaine Composites Center, sat down with Windpower TV to speak about developing the floating platform for VolturnUS, an offshore wind turbine prototype that was deployed off the coast of Castine. Project manager Dagher […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Associated Press, Maine Public Broadcasting Network and WNPR in Connecticut reported on research being conducted by Matthew Hodgkin, a fourth-year animal and veterinary sciences major at the University of Maine, under the guidance of Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at UMaine. The cross-discipline research project focused on developing […]
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Robert Lilieholm, the E.L. Giddings professor of forest policy at the University of Maine, was quoted in a WLBZ (Channel 2) report about a teleconference town hall meeting planned for Wednesday, April 1 to discuss the proposed Katahdin-region national park. The amount of jobs the park would generate has been researched and predicted by Headwaters […]
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