The Maine Division of the New England Society of American Foresters will hold its annual fall meeting Friday, Oct. 30 at the University of Maine. The meeting will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Wells Conference Center and will focus on “Maine’s New Economy, Our Forested Future.” The conference will involve […]
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A University of Maine Ph.D. student has been awarded two Maine Technology Institute (MTI) grants for the business he created with a fellow UMaine alumnus that aims to develop eco-friendly, recyclable and reusable products for several industries. Nadir Yildirim, a student in the Wood Science and Technology Program in the School of Forest Resources, received […]
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On Friday, June 26, as various school systems came to the end of their academic calendars, 17 Maine high school and middle school teachers and 12 science researchers gathered around small tables at the University of Maine, all with the same topic in mind. Climate change. The group participated in a climate science teacher workshop […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a current art exhibit by Susan Smith, who teaches in the Master of Fine Art program in intermedia at the University of Maine and is the coordinator of the Lord Hall Gallery on campus. Smith’s show, “The Botany of Sacrifice,” is on display at the Waterfall Arts in Belfast […]
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William Pace, a prominent advocate of international peace and justice, will visit the University of Maine Oct. 28–29 to give two public presentations and meet with UMaine community members at several events. Pace is the executive director of the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to the realization of […]
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Jesica D. Waller, a graduate student at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, was interviewed for an Al Jazeera English television piece about ocean acidification and lobsters. “The cause for worry is really we don’t know enough to worry,” says Waller, whose research focuses on how American lobster larvae develop in acidic ocean conditions. […]
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Nancy Rotkowitz, a graduate student at the University of Maine, spoke with WVII (Channel 7) about her personal experience with suicide ahead of the seventh annual Out of the Darkness Community Walk on Oct. 4. Rotkowitz, who struggled with depression, credits the suicide hot line with saving her life. “I’m so incredibly thankful for what […]
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Dorina Grezda and Nehat Dobratiqi, two Kosovar students supported by the Transformational Leadership Program — Scholarships and Partnerships (TLP-SP), analyzed data from a survey of Mainers to examine the factors that encourage people’s recycling and other environmental behaviors. Professor Mario Teisl, adviser of the students, presented their work at an UNITWIN/UNESCO-sponsored conference on food waste […]
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Two University of Maine researchers have received a $500,000 National Science Foundation award to advance scientists’ ability to analyze massive data samples collected by real-time sensors. Today, sensors are only capable of taking samples at discrete points in space, such as taking hundreds of individual photographs. Often times, the data has to be physically retrieved […]
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The University of Maine Graduate School and Maine Business School are the latest programs to upgrade to the university’s new website template. The new UMaine.edu and related pages debuted in late August. For more information on the UMaine website conversion, contact Mike Kirby at mike.kirby@maine.edu or 581.3744.
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