More than 250 students are expected to participate in two middle and high school STEM competitions Friday, May 19 at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center: the Kleinschmidt Windstorm Challenge and the ninth annual Maine Wind Blade Challenge. The competitions, which showcase real-world, hands-on STEM innovation by middle and high school students […]
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Maine Startups Insider reported [Re]Produce, a company that wants to turn Maine farmers’ surplus into high-end locally sourced frozen food, won the sixth annual UMaine Business Challenge. Anita van Dam and Grace Burchard, both students at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, took home the first-place $5,000 cash award, which van Dam said the […]
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The University of Maine’s 2017 Commencement is May 13, with ceremonies at 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. at Alfond Sports Arena. Motorists in the Orono area will encounter heavier traffic than usual throughout much of the day. Anyone attending Commencement should plan to arrive early. Doors open at 8 a.m. for the morning ceremony; 1 […]
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More than 1,900 students, including 34 doctoral degree candidates, are expected to participate in the University of Maine’s 215th Commencement on May 13 in Harold Alfond Sports Arena on campus. UMaine Commencement will be held in two ceremonies, beginning at 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Both ceremonies are ticketed events and live streaming will be […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, WABI (Channel 5), Mainebiz, Woodworking Network and WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on the new Biomass to Bioproducts Pilot Plant at the University of Maine’s Technology Research Center in Old Town. Biofine Technology, a Massachusetts company focused on making liquid fuel, chemicals and other advanced materials from wood, intends […]
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About 45 University of Maine students in the Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) Program will present their senior capstone design projects on Maine Day. From 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 3, students will showcase their final projects in the Machine Tool Lab, Room 106. Scheduled presentations: 9–9:30 a.m. “Human-powered alternative energy.” MET students are collaborating with […]
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The University of Maine Foundation and Emera Maine have established an endowment fund to honor Dick Hill, one of UMaine’s most recognized and respected faculty members. The Emera Maine Professor Richard C. Hill Scholarship Fund will formally be announced on the Maine Day of Giving, Wednesday, May 3. Those who knew, worked with, or were […]
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More than 1,200 undergraduate and graduate students presented their work during the second annual University of Maine Student Symposium held at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on April 24. The free public event, which was organized by UMaine Graduate Student Government and the Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR), featured the work of students from […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) and the Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) have announced the MSGC Undergraduate Fellowship winners for summer 2017. The winners are: James Barry, microbiology, “Identification of Virulence Genes in Group B Streptococcus (GBS),” advised by Melody Neely Nathan Gazey, computer science, “HandWaver,” advised by Justin Dimmel Cassandra […]
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Editor’s note: An updated version of this story appears in the College of Engineering’s winter 2017 magazine. Madeline Wehrle was interested in medicine from an early age. After being introduced to isometric drawing and computer-aided design, or CAD, modeling in high school, she also became interested in bioengineering. “It was more of a realization that […]
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