For Jeremy Juybari, the path from managing a defense research company to developing artificial intelligence (AI) models has been anything but ordinary. Now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maine, he is pushing the boundaries of AI to help improve breast cancer detection and save lives. While pursuing his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees, […]
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Near the end of high school, Josh Hamilton of Alton, Maine lost a close friend to bone cancer, and early in his undergraduate years, he lost his stepfather to pancreatic cancer. Driven to help mitigate future cancer deaths, he is researching ways to improve early detection, prevention and treatment. A University of Maine Ph.D. candidate […]
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A new fellowship for returning Peace Corps volunteers will cover 100% of tuition and mandatory fees for a master’s degree in global policy at the University of Maine. The UMaine School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA) is offering the fellowship through the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program, which provides financial support to former Peace […]
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Two University of Maine alumni, Gorham School District superintendent Heather Perry (‘04G) and Regional School Unit 34 (Alton, Bradley and Old Town) assistant superintendent Jon Doty (’00, ‘04G, ‘06G, ‘18G), were honored by the Maine School Superintendent Association (MSSA) as the state’s top K-12 administrators for 2026. Perry, who has been Gorham School District’s superintendent […]
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Campus Safety magazine reported on a University of Maine study which shows that having strong campus relationships greatly improves the likelihood of reporting a hazing incident. Devin Franklin, the study’s lead author and a Ph.D. student in higher education, explained that hazing prevention operates on three levels: primary prevention to shift attitudes before incidents occur, […]
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) renewed the University of Maine’s first T32 institutional predoctoral training grant, expanding support for doctoral students in biomedical science and engineering. UMaine’s T32 program, launched in 2019, was the first of its kind at the state’s flagship university and remains one of only two active programs in Maine. Led […]
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With only 370 endangered right whales remaining in the world, University of Maine researchers have joined together with the New England Aquarium in Boston to create honing models on where the whales will appear next. Lead researcher Camille Ross, an associate research scientist at the New England Aquarium and former UMaine graduate student, told the […]
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College students’ relationships with friends, professional staff members, faculty and other members of their campus community are an important factor in their willingness to report hazing to their institutions, according to a new study from University of Maine researchers. Shared during National Hazing Awareness Week, which runs through Sept. 26, the study describes how the […]
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It was a sun-soaked, blue-sky day in late August, and a group of eight University of Maine students paddled on western Maine’s Bryant Pond in green Old Town canoes. They were practicing a classic T-rescue, a maneuver that offers a quick way to get a capsized paddler back into a boat. Working in teams, the […]
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Despite being one of the largest animals on the planet, the small population of the North Atlantic right whale and its vast habitat makes these marine mammals difficult to track. Models accurately detailing where they are located at different times of the year are essential for conservation. A new study published in the journal Endangered […]
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