Two students who said they are heading to UMaine were interviewed in a Bangor Daily News article about Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s promotion of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education. Nick Ferguson of Sidney and Derek Caron of Oakland, both seniors at Messalonskee High School in Oakland, said they intend to study chemical engineering […]
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Initiative aimed at fostering the professional development of UMaine female faculty members in engineering, mathematics, technology, and the physical, biological and social-behavioral sciences.
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In a Bangor Daily News report about Ed Lindsey, a UMaine alumnus and Old Town High School teacher who is one of 18 teachers in the nation to have won the Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators, Lindsey credited the Acadia Learning Project, in which UMaine is involved, for helping him win the award. Lindsey’s […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) aired a report on the high-altitude balloon launch over the weekend by several University of Maine engineering students and some from Bangor High School. The experiment was funded by the Maine Space Grant Consortium with support from NASA. Electrical and computer engineering professor Rick Eason was interviewed for the report. He said […]
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The global energy organization Iberdrola USA Foundation and the Fundacion Iberdrola Scholarship Program for Energy and Environment Postgraduate Studies in the United States announced the awarding of fellowships to University of Maine Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate student Matthew Burns and a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Burns studies the feasibility of deploying […]
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An editorial in the Bangor Daily News endorsing proposed bond issues being considered by the Legislature cited the benefits and job creation resulting from research at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures & Composites Center as being worth the investment. A research and development bond proposal in particular, the paper said, will improve Maine’s long-term […]
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The Bangor Daily News carried an Associated Press report and an online video about the annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative conference held Thursday at, and co-organized by, the University of Maine. More than 1,000 Maine middle and high school students participated in multiple breakout groups on computer game creation and software applications, and collaborated with […]
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The coastal newspaper The Free Press published an article about the postponement of the launch of a test wind-energy turbine off Monhegan Island from this summer to 2013 because of pending permits for the project. Habib Dagher, director of the UMaine Advanced Structures & Composites Center, told the paper that all of the permits are […]
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The University of Maine has committed $1,000 in scholarships for 17 students who win a drawing during the 9th Annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) Student Conference Thursday at UMaine. Ten scholarships are bring offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, five from the School of Computing and Information Science, and two from […]
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