Rick Eason, organizer of the Bangor contradance and professor of computer engineering at the University of Maine, talked with the Bangor Daily News about contra dancing in the state. “It reminds me of those old movies, where people get dressed up on a Saturday night and the whole community comes together,” Eason said in the […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an article about work winding down on about $25 million in construction and renovation projects at the University of Maine less than two weeks ahead of the start of the fall semester. The projects include about $5.5 million in work funded through a voter-approved bond to improve outdated labs, lecture […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece “A ticket into the shrinking middle class,” by Mick Peterson, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maine.
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release about civil engineering doctoral student Andrew Young being named a 2015 NASA Space Technology Research Fellow for his work on the Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) project at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center. A HIAD is a nose-mounted device on a spacecraft that slows […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported Princeton Review named the University of Maine among the 380 best colleges nationwide for 2016 in its annual guide. For the second consecutive year, UMaine is the only public university in Maine to be profiled in the publication. This spring, UMaine also was named one of the Top 50 Green Colleges […]
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Princeton Review names UMaine among the 380 best colleges for 2016.
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The Concord Monitor published an article on University of Maine student Austyn Shea’s summer construction job. Shea of Concord just completed his freshman year at UMaine where he is studying construction management. Shea, who said he wanted to use his summer to gain valuable real-world experience in the construction industry, secured a summer internship with […]
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Work by University of Maine mechanical engineering students was mentioned in a WABI (Channel 5) report about the Maine Forest and Logging Museum’s event celebrating logging machinery of the past. A Lombard steam log hauler, famous for being the first successful vehicle to run on tracks, was on display at the Bradley museum, according to […]
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This fall, an estimated 700 University of Maine students will be taking their general chemistry courses in two of the newly renovated laboratories in Aubert Hall. The renovations were made possible as part of a 2013 bond passed by Maine voters for updates and improvements to labs and classrooms on all University of Maine System […]
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Business Insider, Science, Climate Central, The Verge, The Conversation and Coastal Review Online reported on a new study of the United States coastline that found the confluence of storm surges and heavy precipitation can bring dangerous flooding to low-lying coastal regions, including major metropolitan areas. The research team was led by Thomas Wahl, a postdoctoral […]
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