Month: March 2006

Refining the Forest

Imagine — or maybe you can remember — the looks on Americans’ faces in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy promised to put a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth. You might see a lot of raised and wrinkled brows in front of a black-and-white glow. But at what was then […]

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Refining the Forest

Imagine — or maybe you can remember — the looks on Americans’ faces in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy promised to put a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth. You might see a lot of raised and wrinkled brows in front of a black-and-white glow. But at what was then […]

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$6.9 Million Federal Grant Will Build Bioproducts Research at UMaine

ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine announced today that it has been awarded a $6.9 million research infrastructure improvement grant from the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (NSF EPSCoR). UMaine is investing a 50 percent match ($3.45 million) for this project through the Maine Economic Improvement Fund, the state’s appropriation […]

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Homegrown Fuel

This past spring, Georgia-Pacific, the paper-manufacturing giant that brings us such familiar products as Quilted Northern toilet paper, closed down its paper mill in Old Town, Maine — laying off hundreds of workers and dealing a blow to the local economy. With cheaper sources of wood pulp flooding in from countries like Brazil and New […]

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