Channel 7 (WVII) on Wednesday covered the pill-crushing device competition among six teams of UMaine mechanical engineering technology students in Barrows Hall. After being rated by professional nurses and engineers for efficiency, ease of use, noise and safety, students in professor Herb Crosby’s class who designed and constructed the devices ground up vitamins and other […]
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Seacoastonline.com has a feature story about Michelle Comeau of Alfred, a UMaine kinesiology student who was married last weekend before her now-husband, a private in the U.S. Army, leaves for Iraq. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Comments from UMaine anthropology major Elizabeth Detwiler were included in a Bangor Daily News article about an upcoming performance by the group Penobscot Fiddles which will raise funds for scholarships to Maine Fiddle Camp. Detwiler, an Old Town resident, said she has been playing violin since she was 5 years old and enjoys participating in […]
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The website Physorg.com has a story about five UMaine students who recently participated in a rocket launch in California’s Mojave Desert. The students, who were working under Professor Ali Abedi, developed wireless sensors that could measure the amount of pre-launch vibration in the 27-foot rocket built by students at California State University Long Beach. Contact: […]
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Several media outlets provided coverage of Maine Day, which was held Wednesday. WLBZ (Channel 2) covered the UMaine Circle K Club’s head-shaving event event, during which 100 people had their hair shaved off, raising around $15,000 for pediatric cancer research. The Bangor Daily News website has a video story about the event. WABI also filmed […]
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Three UMaine students were arrested Tuesday for breaking into the building that housed the former Oronoko Restaurant in Orono, according to a Bangor Daily News report. Orono police told the BDN they believed the students planned to take commercial pots and pans, bar memorabilia and other items from the restaurant, which has been closed since […]
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Jim McConnon, UMaine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics, was interviewed for a recent article in the Bangor Daily News about the substantial population growth in communities surrounding Bangor. Citing multiplier effects, McConnon says the population increase has coincided with an increase in the number of jobs and economic opportunity in and around Bangor […]
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The Ellsworth American’s Fenceviewer website has a report about an announcement made this week at a meeting of the New England Fishery Management Council in Connecticut, during which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it will immediate begin an effort to improve collaboration between UMaine and other academic institutions in the region that conduct […]
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UMaine business major James Gilmore is the featured act in a concert, according to a story in Foster’s Daily Democrat newspaper, that will serve as a fundraiser for a new library in South Berwick. “Sobopalooza for the Library” is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, at Marshwood High School, of which Gilmore is […]
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WLBZ television broadcast a Monday report about recognition UMaine recently received for its sustainability efforts. The story, which includes comments from Elaine Clark and Laura Lommler, describes infrastructure and transportation initiatives that are aimed at environmental stewardship. Princeton Review recently named UMaine to its green colleges list.
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