Tenure and/or promotion for 15 University of Maine faculty members has been approved by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. The faculty members were nominated by UMaine President Susan J. Hunter based on a peer and administrative review of their successful teaching, research and public service. “The excellence and leadership demonstrated by these […]
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School Band and Orchestra magazine included Christopher White, director of sports bands and a lecturer in music at the University of Maine, in its 19th annual list of “50 directors who make a difference.” An interview with White was included in the December 2016 issue of the magazine. “There are two things we always want […]
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The Department of Communication and Journalism will welcome The Washington Post reporters Jessica Contrera and Katie Mettler as visiting journalists March 29–31 as part of the Alan Miller Fund for Excellence in Journalism. In addition to meeting students and visiting journalism classes, they will give a free public talk titled, “Clickbait, Fake News, and the […]
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Samuel Borer, a junior at the University of Maine studying physics and math, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald article about how students in the University of Maine System are likely to see an increase in tuition and fees this fall, the first hike in six years. The trustees will vote on the increase, […]
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Maine entrepreneurs Heather and Abe Furth will be the Commencement speakers for the University of Maine’s graduation ceremonies on May 13. UMaine’s 215th Commencement will feature morning and afternoon ceremonies starting at 9:30 and 2:30. The Furths will address both ceremonies. The Orono couple met at UMaine in 1999 when Heather was studying biology and […]
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Cynthia Erdley, a psychology professor at the University of Maine, spoke with WLBZ (Channel 2) for a report about the power of social media among adolescents, including those who run away. Even though social media can often help bring minors home through awareness, it also can be a trigger for them to take off, according […]
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The Ellsworth American published a feature article on Walter Grenier II, who at 73 years old completed his bachelor’s degree in university studies from the University of Maine earlier this year. The degree comes nearly 56 years after Grenier first enrolled in college at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1961, according to the […]
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VillageSoup reported a group of seventh-grade students from Oceanside Middle School in Rockland joined more than 450 middle school girls from around the state at the annual University of Maine conference that aims to provide a safe and encouraging environment to explore science, technology, engineering and math. The 30th Expanding Your Horizons conference took place […]
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Mechanix Illustrated published the article, “Space tourism now and in the near future,” by Neil Comins, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Maine. Comins also was interviewed by ICI Radio-Canada Première about space travel and his latest book, “The Traveler’s Guide to Space: For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists.”
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The Bangor Daily News reported on an innovative, wireless home technology, developed at the University of Maine, that could someday take the place of traditional, hard-wired sleep studies in a clinical setting. The technology used in the patented device, known as the SleepMove, has been used to analyze sleep patterns in newborns with opiate dependency, […]
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