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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The University of Maine’s Stormwater Management Research Team (SMART) program will be featured in the 2017 NSF INCLUDES Video Showcase. The online event will feature three-minute videos on projects around the country that are aspiring to make STEM education in the United States more inclusive. The SMART program, based in the College of Engineering, seeks […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported on the MDI Biological Laboratory’s Center for Science Entrepreneurship and its new course, Bridging Disciplines: Navigating Successful 21st Century Careers in Biomedical Science. The center and course aim to help University of Maine and College of the Atlantic science and engineering undergraduates explore approaches to biomedical research using concepts and tools […]
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Mainebiz reported legislation backed by U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King calls for accelerated research and development of using new wood technologies, such as cross-laminated timber, in the construction of buildings over 85 feet high. Collins and King have joined two other senators in re-introducing the Timber Innovation Act, bipartisan legislation being pursued in […]
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