Black Bear pride is in full force at a middle school in Los Angeles, California, where a classroom of 23 students is focusing on the University of Maine to learn about college, what it takes to get there and how to succeed. The students in UMaine alumna Caitlin Rafferty’s sixth-grade advisory group chose the university […]
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Nontraditional undergraduate seeks to learn about forestry to better manage 1,000 acres
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UMaine alumnus, inventor on 11 patents creates company to develop convenient vision aids for reading product label information.
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The University of Maine Alumni Association is collecting stories from UMaine veterans who served after World War II. The remembrances will be compiled in a book, comparable to the volume published in 2001 by Stephen Jacobs as a tribute to the Class of 1944. The project is led by Kyle Hadyniak, senior editorial intern with […]
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Paul Mayewski and Dan Dixon are on thin ice. Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, and Dixon, a research assistant professor with CCI, are featured in the shortened version of the award-winning film “Thin Ice: The Inside Story of Climate Science,” that MPBN will broadcast at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 12. […]
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Plourde designs free iPad app based on Borns’ map of Maine Ice Age Trail.
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Hamlin discovers certain plastic bags leach nonylphenol in concentrations toxic to fish.
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Alumna, occupational therapist creates place to foster healthy sensory and motor development in children.
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Alumnus from Orono working as principal scientist at Merck Research Laboratories.
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An Orono-based company founded by two University of Maine graduates has been awarded $224,996 from the National Science Foundation to create a prototype for the first completely eco-friendly thermal insulation foam board. Nadir Yildirim, a graduate of UMaine’s innovation engineering program and current Ph.D. student in the Wood Science and Technology Program in the School […]
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