The Public News Service advanced Madeline Sayet’s Oct. 17 “Indigenous Shakespeares” free, public talk at 4:30 p.m. in the Fernald APPE space in the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center. Sayet, executive director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program and a Libra Visiting Diversity Professor at the University of Maine, will discuss why […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on World Languages Day celebrated Oct. 11 at the University of Maine. Students from Bangor and Orono high schools attended the annual French and Spanish immersion event hosted by UMaine’s Department of Modern Languages and Classics in collaboration with the Foreign Language Association of Maine (FLAME). Students participated in a culture […]
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Penobscot Bay Press advanced University of Maine graduate student Kevin Duffy’s Maine Coast Photovoice Project workshop Oct. 13 and 21. The collaborative, community-based workshop will introduce residents to photo-based storytelling. It’s designed to document development and change along the Bagaduce River estuary through photographs. Residents in the Brooksville and Castine areas interested in joining the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) advanced the Career Center’s 21st Engineering Job Fair from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16 in the New Balance Student Recreation Center. A total of 168 firms are expected to be represented.
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The Associated Press, Maine Public, News Center Maine, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7), WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle), HotHardware, Q-106.5, and I-95 (95.7 FM) reported on the University of Maine’s unveiling of the world’s largest 3D printer and largest 3D-printed object. More than 250 federal and state […]
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The Franklin Journal reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Franklin County is celebrating 100 years of service to local people through outreach, education and research. When Franklin County Extension was established in 1919, the focus was achieved through 4-H clubs, home economics groups and agricultural services. Over the last 100 years, the programs […]
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Bradfield Lyon, associate research professor with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for the article, “Maine could lose loons and other bird species by end of century, Audubon reports.” Scientists with the National Audubon Society used data gathered by biologists and […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine Center on Aging has received a $147,000 award from the Corporation for National and Community Service to build on previous research on volunteer participation among older adults. Researchers are trying to determine ways to free up or help older adults as they juggle work, care for their […]
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Phys.org published a University of Maine news release about a discovery by researchers that challenges the established volcanic source of particles found in an ice core from the South Pole. Using a method of extracting volcanic ash particles from ice core samples to measure their geochemical composition, Laura Hartman, a graduate student at the CCI, […]
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The Associated Press reported the University of Maine revealed the world’s largest polymer 3D printer at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center on Oct. 10. The printer is so big it can produce objects up to 100 feet long. Thursday’s event featured a 25-foot, 5,000-pound patrol boat that was printed at the ASCC, according to […]
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