Six University of Maine explorers will talk about their experiences participating in the most comprehensive scientific expedition ever conducted on Mount Everest. A free, public panel discussion, “The University of Maine’s Role in the National Geographic and Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Extreme Expedition to Mount Everest,” will be held 1:45–2:45 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, in the […]
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Maine Public and WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine System is drastically cutting tuition for out-of-state students pursuing a Master’s in Business Administration as part of an effort to increase enrollment. Beginning in January, out-of-state MBA students will see their tuition decline by nearly half, Maine Public reported. According to WABI, that could […]
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Judith Rosenbaum, Alan Berry and Jennifer Bonnet will present “Beyond ‘fake news’: Digging into media literacy and cognitive bias” 4:45–6 p.m. Nov. 4 in Fogler Library Classroom 1. The free public workshop will include a lecture and hands-on activities. Participants will learn how to critically evaluate news production and consumption and explore how one’s preferences […]
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The University of Maine Graduate School of Business will offer 12% tuition discounts toward the MaineMBA beginning January 2020. The Workforce Partners Program, which is available to active members of any Maine chamber of commerce, improves access and affordability toward completion of the MaineMBA. According to recent studies, over the past year, Maine had more […]
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The University of Maine has launched its podcast “The Maine Question.” Host Ron Lisnet talks with UMaine pioneers, including those who explore backyard gardens, the depths of the oceans, Earth’s highest peaks, or beyond. They’ll share why they’re passionate about their research and what it means for Maine and the world. In the inaugural episode, […]
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CBC News interviewed University of Maine researchers Erik Blomberg and Alexander Fish for the report, “Tracking a secretive bird: Researchers join woodcock migration study.” The researchers are part of an international migration study that biologists hope can shed light on the elusive game bird. As part of the study, the birds were equipped with GPS […]
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Robyn Young, a graduate student at the University of Maine and research assistant at Dartmouth College, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Expanded financial literacy will boost policies aimed at helping working Maine families.” Young is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together […]
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“The Greater Good,” the podcast series of the University of Maine Graduate and Professional Center, has posted the first of a two-part series on a summer 2019 trip to Greenland by Paul Mayewski of the UMaine Climate Change Institute, Firooza Pavri of the University of Southern Maine Muskie School of Public Service and Charles Norchi […]
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Contributions made by Gordon Hamilton and Leigh Stearns are included in Science magazine’s article “Greenland’s Dying Ice,” which features Fiamma Straneo’s research on the Helheim Glacier. Hamilton, an associate research professor at the Climate Change Institute, died in 2016 conducting research in Antarctica. Stearns, an associate professor at the University of Kansas, earned her doctorate […]
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Six doctoral students in the University of Maine Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering make up the first cohort supported by a $1.07 million National Institutes of Health’s Institutional Research Training Grant (T32). Awardees receive fellowships that include a stipend, tuition, university fees, health insurance coverage, as well as an allowance for travel and […]
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