Alumni

Innovate for Maine Fellows opens applications for students, companies

The University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation seeks Maine students and Maine companies to participate in the 2020 Innovate for Maine Fellows internship program. Innovate for Maine Fellows connects the best and brightest Maine college students with the state’s most exciting companies as a way to grow and create jobs in Maine through […]

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Maine Edge shares Maryann Hartman Award winners

The Maine Edge ran a University of Maine media release announcing the 2020 Maryann Hartman Award winners: retired director of the University of Maine’s Women’s Resource Center Sharon Barker of Bangor; Penobscot Nation Ambassador Maulian Dana of Old Town; and executive director of Maine Hospice Council Kandyce Powell of Wiscasset. The winners will be honored […]

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AACSB extends Maine Business School accreditation

AACSB International has extended accreditation for the Maine Business School at the University of Maine through the 2023–24 academic year. The Maine Business School has been accredited by AACSB since 1974. “It is exciting to see this extension of the gold standard of business education accreditation,” says Faye Gilbert, dean of the Undergraduate School of […]

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Portland Press highlights Norton’s sound installation of extinct species

The Portland Press Herald featured Steve Norton, whose sound installation at Fields Pond Audubon Center in Holden features recorded sounds of 12 recently extinct birds and amphibians. The jazz musician created “Requiem” in 2018 as he pursued a Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of Maine. All 12 species went extinct in the […]

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DMC shellfish study highlights changes in Damariscotta River

Darling Marine Center researcher Kara Pellowe and colleagues found very few clams of commercial size (2 inches or larger) last summer in any of the intertidal flats managed by the towns of Damariscotta and Newcastle. Their discovery came during a collaborative project in which they counted shellfish (soft-shell clams, quahogs, razor clams, mussels and oysters) […]

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Pellowe, Leslie: Fishermen adapt to environmental change in varied ways

Regulations and financial resources that influence how people fish have as great an effect on how they deal with change as where and how they fish, found University of Maine Darling Marine Center researchers Kara Pellowe and Heather Leslie. The ecologists examined how fishermen adapt to environmental and economic change in Baja California Sur, Mexico.  […]

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Press reports on death of microprocessor inventor Chuck Peddle

The Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News, News Center Maine and WABI (Channel 5) reported on the death of Chuck Peddle, a 1959 graduate of the University of Maine’s engineering program whose 1975 invention of a microprocessor paved the way for the era of personal computing. Peddle died Dec. 15 at the age of 82 at […]

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As climate warms, stronger Saharan dust storms will increase glacier melt, worsen air quality

A groundbreaking study shows that a warming planet will make dust storms more intense in the Mediterranean. Using the highest-resolution continuous climate record ever published, the study explains the connections between dust storms, extended periods of drought, volcanoes and warming in the Mediterranean, Europe and Asia. These ultrahigh-resolution records revealed stronger Saharan dust storms during […]

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