In a story about wind energy in Maine, the Ellsworth American quoted Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), as saying “The only option for Maine for offshore wind is floating turbines,” in a 2021 webinar outlining the VolturnUS project. The Mount Desert Islander shared the […]
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The Bangor Daily News, The Ellsworth American, the Mount Desert Islander, Aquafeed.com, RASTech Magazine, the Fish Site and Intrafish reported that the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute (ARI) has been awarded $2.25 million per year of congressional programmatic funding for recirculating aquaculture systems research. The funding was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service, […]
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The Bangor Daily News noted that scientists from the University of Maine participated in the 50th anniversary meeting of the Maine Biological and Medical Sciences Symposium.
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A University of Maine Ph.D. candidate has created a new mapping tool that can help scientists and resource managers better predict how vulnerable different coastal estuary settings in Maine are to pollution. Pollution vulnerability in estuaries and bays can be determined by the source of contamination, how it is transported to coastal waters and how […]
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The University of Maine Portland Gateway and Maine Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) will host a cross-sector event on May 18 exploring the region’s existing programs, resources and capacity across the semiconductor industry. This event, to be held from 10 a.m.–3 p.m. at 300 Fore St., Portland, brings experts from […]
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The University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute (ARI) has been awarded $2.25 million per year of congressional programmatic funding for recirculating aquaculture systems research. The funding was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), and supports studies ARI scientists will conduct at the National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center. Recirculating aquaculture […]
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More than 1,000 student researchers, co-authors, faculty, staff, event sponsors and community members attended the 2023 UMaine Student Symposium at the Collins Center For the Arts on April 14. Read the full story on the UMaine Student Symposium webpage.
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The UMaine Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR), UMaine Space, UMaine AI and Institute of Medicine announce the recipients of the CUGR, Institute of Medicine, and Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Summer Research Fellowships. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research. Winners of the fellowships will receive $3,000 to […]
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Pallet-sized mats of wild blueberry thatch took a 52-mile trip from Deblois to the University of Maine’s Wyman’s Wild Blueberry Research and Innovation Center in Old Town April 12 for planting. The milestone in the center’s development follows years of preparations and will create multidisciplinary research opportunities for faculty and students. Maine’s state fruit is […]
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University of Maine research in partnership with Sappi North America has received a $550,000 award from the National Science Foundation to explore how existing mass produced technologies can be used to study and scale up microfluidic technology. Microfluidics studies the behavior of certain fluids through microscopic channels. The movement can be used to learn more […]
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