Eight University of Maine faculty members will receive 2017–18 course modification incentive grants from the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) through the Faculty Incentive Grant-Maine Learning Assistant (FIG-MLA) Program. This year’s grant recipients are: Farahad Dastoor for BIO 200: Biology of Organisms Paula Drewniany for MAT 127: Calculus II Brett Ellis […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated April 20. Allyson Eslin of Bangor has been named the valedictorian and Joshua Patnaude of Sanford the salutatorian at the University of Maine for 2017. Between them, the two top students will receive a total of four degrees at UMaine’s 215th Commencement in Harold Alfond Sports Arena May 13. Eslin, who […]
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The Associated Press reported Xudong Zheng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maine, has been awarded more than a half million dollars from the National Science Foundation to study the human voice. The project will use computer models to look at sound production. Zheng says better understanding of vocal function can […]
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VillageSoup reported a group of seventh-grade students from Oceanside Middle School in Rockland joined more than 450 middle school girls from around the state at the annual University of Maine conference that aims to provide a safe and encouraging environment to explore science, technology, engineering and math. The 30th Expanding Your Horizons conference took place […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on an innovative, wireless home technology, developed at the University of Maine, that could someday take the place of traditional, hard-wired sleep studies in a clinical setting. The technology used in the patented device, known as the SleepMove, has been used to analyze sleep patterns in newborns with opiate dependency, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Melissa Landon, an associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Maine, for a report about potholes and their prevalence in the state this time of year. Landon told WABI potholes are formed throughout the winter by snow that melts, freezes and thaws. “[You have] snow and then you have […]
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Creating a better understanding of how humans use and control their voice is the focus of a five-year study being led by a University of Maine researcher. Xudong Zheng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is leading the project that will use computer models to look at the role of mucosal wave propagation in sound […]
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The University of Maine’s SMART (Stormwater Management Research Team) program was mentioned in an Idaho Ed News feature on Alyssa Lu, a junior at Boise High School. Lu is committed to combating climate change, helping the environment, and making the world a better place for her generation and those that come after, the article states. […]
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Maine Startups Insider reported on the finalists for the UMaine Business Challenge, the state’s largest student entrepreneurship competition. The college entrepreneurs will be paired with mentors and have seven weeks to build a business plan before presenting it before a panel of judges on April 29 at UMaine, according to the article. Up for grabs […]
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The Bangor Daily News, WLBZ (Channel 2) and WABI (Channel 5) reported on the third annual Maine Science Festival, in which the University of Maine is an event partner. Several members of the UMaine community led workshops and participated in the weekend that draws science, innovation and creative achievement enthusiasts of all ages. The event […]
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