News Center Maine and WVFX (Channel 7) featured two robotics teams from Bangor High School — Gadget Gang and Loose Screws — who are gearing up for the VEX Robotics Lobstah Bowl V5RC Signature Event. The three-day event will see 47 teams compete, and Bangor’s teams have been preparing since May. The winners will enjoy […]
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Four faculty- and staff-led innovation teams have been selected to participate in the seventh cohort of the University of Maine’s MIRTA accelerator program. The 2024 projects will involve developing research innovations in environmentally-friendly advanced manufacturing, web privacy protections, water filtration for a group of chemicals known as PFAS, and accelerated soil carbonation to reduce carbon […]
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Every spring when the sap starts running, Carli Frigon, her brother Carroll and her parents, Jereme and Donna, stay at their sugarhouse in the small northern Maine town of Sandy Bay. From the age of 9, Frigon’s March memories have consisted of building snow forts, making hot cocoa, tasting the sweetness of syrup on snow […]
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The University of Maine, the state’s public flagship and only Research 1 (R1) institution, has launched its new brand campaign, Blue Horizons, that invites everyone to experience world-class education in a welcoming place of ingenuity, exploration and collaboration. The Blue Horizons campaign aims to distinctly define and communicate UMaine’s unique strengths, positioning it as a […]
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Mainebiz reported on a $10 million federal grant awarded to University of Maine researchers and their colleges to investigate using low-value wood to make sustainable jet fuel and fish feed. In partnership with UMass Lowell, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Arbiom, researchers aim to turn wood waste into valuable products and improve forest management.
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Teams of high school students from across the U.S. and Canada and their robots will face off in a international high stakes competition hosted by the University of Maine and VEX Robotics, a global developer of educational tools for creating robots, from Sept. 12-14 inside the Collins Center for the Arts. During the VEX Robotics […]
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The first time Zach Robinson stepped foot on the University of Maine campus was for his graduation. In fact, it was the first time he had ever been to the state. Having flown from California to Boston, Robinson was awed by the lush greenery of Maine in May as he drove north from Massachusetts. Robinson […]
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University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy, Maine College of Engineering and Computing Dean Giovanna Guidoboni were featured in a segment of News Center Maine titled “’You can be whatever you want to be’: Meet women in STEM driving UMaine.” “For a student who wants to try out an interest of intrigue or creative development or […]
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In an article titled “Brunswick residents with wells face testing barriers in wake of chemical spill,” The Times Record interviewed Jean MacRae, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, about a group of chemicals known as PFAS. “People should be keeping an eye on their water in the area, just […]
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The Mount Desert Islander reported on a recent study which found that the waterways in and around Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor and the Schoodic Peninsula are home to a significant amount of microplastic pollution. There are an estimated 400 billion microplastic fibers on the surface of Frenchman Bay and several connected rivers and estuaries […]
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