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UMaine Receives $8 Million in Federal Funds for Offshore Wind Project
The University of Maine has received up to $8 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to design and deploy two 10 kW and one 100 kW floating offshore turbine prototypes, according to an announcement Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 made by U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Read More in Spotlight.

Research

Decoding Diatoms - Fall 2009
Every summer for the past decade, paleoecologist Jasmine Saros has trekked across snowfields and horsebacked up bouldered mountain passes to reach remote, high-altitude lakes in the shadow of the Beartooth Mountains of the central Rockies. Read More in Research.

Student Focus

UMaine Engineering's Human-Powered Submarine
The Beatles may have all lived in a yellow submarine, but the gray submarine created by University of Maine mechanical engineering students only seats one. Read More in Student Focus.

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