Jessica Miller, professor of philosophy and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine; Erika Ziller and Katherine Weatherford Darling co-wrote an opinion piece published in the Bangor Daily News titled “COVID-19 demands ethical, as well as scientific, decisions.” Ziller and Darling are members of the Maine chapter […]
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University of Maine graduate student and alumna Lindsey Lagerstrom of Presque Isle, Maine, has been named the inaugural Glickman Fellow in Clinical Psychology at UMaine. Lagerstrom worked in outpatient mental health and substance abuse in Aroostook County while earning a bachelor’s degree in psychology at UMaine. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in neuropsychology this fall. […]
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The Portland Press Herald, the Penobscot Bay Pilot, the VillageSoup and the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel reported on the finalists for 2021 Maine Teacher of the Year, including two University of Maine alumnae. Finalists Cindy Soule, a fourth-grade teacher at Portland’s Gerald A. Talbot Community School, and Heather Webster, an English teacher at Medomak […]
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Cindy Soule, a fourth-grade teacher at Portland’s Gerald A. Talbot Community School, and Heather Webster, an English teacher at Medomak Valley High School, Waldoboro, are two of the three finalists for 2021 Maine Teacher of the Year. Both are alumnae of the University of Maine. Soule, the 2020 Cumberland County Teacher of the Year, has […]
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Mainebiz shared a media release about UNAR Labs, a University of Maine spinout company that develops assistive technology for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users, being awarded $300,000 under the National Institute of Health’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program. The company plans to prototype an information access system that would help educational […]
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The University of Maine is among the best 386 colleges nationwide, according to The Princeton Review’s 2021 edition of its annual guide, and also is included again this year in the Fiske Guide to Colleges. Colleges and universities profiled in this year’s “The Best 386 Colleges” represent about 14% of the 2,800 four-year colleges in […]
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UNAR Labs, a University of Maine spinout company that develops assistive technology for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users, has been awarded $300,000 under the National Institute of Health’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I program to further prove its concept. With the award, the company plans to prototype an information access system that […]
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WVII (Channel 7) featured Jon Ippolito, a University of Maine professor of new media, in its story about data collection by TikTok, a China-based application used by social media fans around the world. U.S. Intelligence officials characterize the app as a security threat. Ippolito said TikTok collects selected user data, commonly used for marketing purposes. […]
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A University of Maine archaeologist has begun his two-year term as president of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society that was founded at the University of Maine. Daniel H. Sandweiss, professor of anthropology and Quaternary and climate studies, served as vice president for chapter development since 2016. He […]
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Eurekalert!, a website managed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, posted a University of Maine news story about a $750,000 Department of Energy grant awarded to researchers Liping Yu and Yingchao Yang. Yu, an assistant professor of physics, and Yang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, seek to characterize a new class of […]
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