The Maine Edge carried a University of Maine news release about a hike and memorial service to honor fallen service members from UMaine and surrounding communities. The Summit Project (TSP) event will take place Saturday, Sept. 26 with a walk from the Maine Veterans Home in Bangor to Alfond Stadium on the UMaine campus […]
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Motherboard spoke with Katherine Thompson, a Ph.D. marine science student at the University of Maine, for an article about the challenges researchers face with the current scientific funding system. According to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study, 4 percent of the 2015 U.S. federal budget was appropriated for scientific research, compared to 10 percent in […]
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The Weekly published a University of Maine student profile on Pam Wells, a nontraditional undergraduate who is enrolled in the School of Forest Resources. Already a UMaine alumna, Wells holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology-English that she earned in 1981 and a master’s degree in social work earned in 1991. She now is considering going […]
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release about civil engineering doctoral student Andrew Young being named a 2015 NASA Space Technology Research Fellow for his work on the Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) project at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center. A HIAD is a nose-mounted device on a spacecraft that slows […]
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The Free Press reported the University of Maine will take part in the annual Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show, August 14–16 on the Rockland waterfront. UMaine’s Herring Gut Learning Center, a marine resources education facility in Port Clyde, will host a seaweed-bookmark-making station, according to the article. UMaine’s learning centers at Tanglewood and Blueberry […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on Upward Bound’s 50th anniversary reunion at the University of Maine. Upward Bound provides support to youth from low-income families to prepare for college. The goal is to increase the rate at which participants complete secondary education and enroll in and graduate from colleges and universities. Participants from the past five […]
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The University of Maine’s “Think 30″ program was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article on college debt in Maine and around the country. Schools, including UMaine, have adopted new programs and policies aimed at helping students get through their college years more efficiently — keeping costs down without wasting time and tuition money — […]
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Kirsten Jacobson, a philosophy professor at the University of Maine, spoke about the importance of philosophy on Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Morning Edition.” Jacobson’s interview is the first in a series of interviews on what role the humanities play in our lives. All of the guests wrote articles in the special issue of Maine Policy […]
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Kate Garland, a horticulturist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension program, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about public tours of the Hammond Street Senior Center’s rooftop garden. Senior center members and volunteers from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteer program recently built 17 raised beds for flowers, […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in the Maine Public Broadcasting Network report, “Volunteers count bats in Maine in an effort to save them.” It’s estimated that between five to seven million hibernating bats, 80 to 90 percent of entire colonies in some cases, have been killed by white-nose syndrome, according to the report. BatME, […]
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