WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Kathryn Swacha, a University of Maine assistant professor of English, about her public storytelling project, “Coping with Covid.” Swacha seeks to compile people’s lived experiences as they deal with coronavirus, and interpret social distancing and public health guidelines in their everyday routines. Centralmaine.com picked up the UMaine news release about Coping with […]
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The Harold Alfond Foundation’s historic investment in Maine and its people includes a $240 million commitment to the University of Maine System to bring transformative change to the state’s largest educational, research, innovation and talent development asset. The Alfond investment in the University of Maine System is the largest ever to a public institution of […]
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Centralmaine.com, the Bangor Daily News and Fosters.com picked up a University of Maine press release highlighting efforts to develop technologies that can locate colonies of nesting birds and capture images with cameras mounted in unmanned aerial vehicles. Cynthia Loftin, associate professor of wildlife ecology, and Roy Turner, associate professor of computer science will collaborate to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that […]
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Third-year University of Maine student Margaret Campbell from San Diego, California is an ocean lover who aspires to a career in marine affairs. She started college at the University of California, Davis, a campus renowned for its marine and coastal science programs, but quickly realized that for her, bigger was not necessarily better. “The University […]
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University of Maine graduate student and alumna Maylinda Boynton of Belfast, Maine learned a lot about performing arts at UMaine. Before she graduated in 2019 with two degrees — in music education and political science — she performed with four different band groups, sang with University Singers and Mainely Voices, and acted in Maine Masque […]
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Maine Public interviewed Mark Brewer, University of Maine professor of political science, about the 2nd District congressional race between incumbent Jared Golden and challenger Dale Crafts.
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Three University of Maine experts will speak during the 2020 Maine Archives & Museums Conference to be held online on Oct. 8. During his talk, “Build a Mobile App for Your Collection,” Jon Ippolito, a professor of new media and director of the digital curation program, will walk participants through the creation of cross-platform smartphone […]
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Biologists count and identify birds in thousands of aerial photos when conducting wildlife surveys, a laborious task that consumes many hours. To reduce time spent analyzing images and the margin for error, University of Maine researchers endeavor to create artificial intelligence that will perform the task. Faculty and graduate students from several units at UMaine […]
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Award-winning journalist Rebecca Traister will discuss women, anger and political change in a lecture hosted by the University of Maine. The free, public talk “Good and Mad: Rebecca Traister on Women, Anger, and Political Change,” will be held 5–6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, via Zoom. Traister is a leading voice on gender, society and politics. […]
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People are invited to share reflections and perspectives on how their everyday lives have been affected by public health guidelines related to the COVID-19 pandemic in a new project led by a University of Maine researcher. Kathryn Swacha, an assistant professor of English, is seeking participants for a public storytelling project titled “Coping with COVID.” […]
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