The University of Maine’s Intermedia Program Visiting Artist Series will kick off with images from “The Kneeling Art Photography Project,” a statewide exploration of social justice through photography and community action. Eleven photographers from across the state have captured images of Mainers working to secure justice at the local, national and international levels. The images and […]
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Thousands of humans live on the 660-acre University of Maine campus. So too, do many other species. To find out how many others and which ones, the School of Biology and Ecology Graduate Organization (SBE GO) invites members of the UMaine and local communities to take part in a BioBlitz from 8:30 a.m. to 4 […]
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Mainebiz reported that the University of Maine Darling Marine Center and the Maine Business School have introduced the “UMaine Blue Economy” program to deepen partnerships between science and business experts in the state’s fisheries and aquaculture sectors and other working-waterfront industries. A $50,000 award from the William Procter Scientific Innovation Fund supports the initiative, which seeks […]
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Phoebe Jekielek, director of research at Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership and a Ph.D. student at the University of Maine, and Dana Morse, a UMaine Cooperative Extension scallop specialist with Maine Sea Grant, spoke with the New York Times about scallop aquaculture in Maine. Jekielek is investigating the impact of scallop farming on […]
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Four faculty-led teams pursuing commercialization of research projects are ready for the next steps in that journey having completed the University of Maine’s 2021 MIRTA accelerator program. The teams presented their projects at an event earlier this month, marking the conclusion of this year’s program. The 2021 MIRTA teams, the fourth cohort to complete the […]
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Down East magazine spoke with Rafa Tasnim, a Ph.D. student in ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Maine, about a study which revealed that Washington County’s blueberry fields are warming at a faster rate than the rest of the state. Tasnim hopes that the methods used in this study will be applicable to […]
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Next April, Václava “Vendy” Hazuková will go to an arid, treeless area in West Greenland to solve a puzzle. It’s not known how lakes there contribute to Arctic carbon cycling — the process in which carbon atoms move from the atmosphere to the Earth and back. Where carbon is — including in the atmosphere, oceans, […]
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Solomon “Solly” Iluyomade is a MaineMBA student from London, England. He is spending the summer as a product management and digital banking intern at Bangor Savings Bank. He’s putting his finance and business analytics skills to work at the bank’s waterfront Bangor location. A 2021 graduate of the Maine Business School and former UMaine basketball […]
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The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed from Jared Entwistle, a University of Maine graduate student studying ecology and environmental sciences and business administration, titled “Pandemic, patrons and packaging: Thoughts on our role in takeout culture.”
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Alan Berry, a Ph.D. student in communication and journalism at the University of Maine, advocates for digital equity in a Bangor Daily News op-ed that identifies a new, third-level digital divide. Berry notes that media literacy is key to ensuring digital equity.
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