Arkansas Online reported on inventor Brandon Foshee’s device that aims to help visually impaired and blind people avoid obstacles. Foshee has received about $600,000 in grants from several agencies to develop his Roboglasses, according to the article. Nicholas Giudice, a professor of spatial informatics at the University of Maine, will study the Roboglasses as part […]
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Maine Public interviewed Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, for the report, “Ranked-choice voting education campaigns underway as primaries near.” Maine voters in next month’s state primary will be the first to use ranked-choice voting for state elections, Maine Public reported. According to experts, many voters don’t understand how the […]
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Mainebiz reported the Maine Center for Entrepreneurs and its partners — the University of Maine, The Lewiston Auburn Economic Growth Council and Gulf of Maine Research Institute — have named 10 winners of the 2018 Top Gun Program’s semi-final pitch events. Regional pitch events were held in Bangor, Brunswick, Lewiston/Auburn and Portland. Participating entrepreneurs presented […]
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The May/June issue of Currents, published by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, included a one-page story with photos about Maine Day and the University of Maine Foundation’s Maine Day of Giving. “We wanted to connect the day to a tradition of the university,” said Monique Hashey, University of Maine Foundation director of […]
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The University of Maine’s Stormwater Management Research Team (SMART) that provides high school students with opportunities to be involved in engineering innovative solutions to stormwater problems was highlighted by the National Science Foundation in its news alert. A story about the program is featured in the new online edition of UMaine Today magazine.
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Robert Glover, an assistant professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine, for an article about Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, who is a Democratic candidate for governor. In this year’s gubernatorial contest, Mills isn’t alone as a state official in the race, according to the […]
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The Portland Press Herald spoke with Marc Cryer, director of the Bureau of Labor Education at the University of Maine, for the article, “As businesses face a labor crunch, state pushes to build teen workforce.” With the lowest state unemployment rate in 60 years and many industries struggling to find workers, the Department of Labor […]
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Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias and director of research at the Downeast Institute, co-wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “How Maine can save its historic clamming industry.” Beal wrote the article with Chad Coffin, a clammer and president of the Maine Clammers […]
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Philip Trostel, an economics professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Mainebiz article, “Top Maine employers take initiative in helping employees prepare for retirement.” “People who are age 50 or 55 now have saved much less for retirement than [people in their 50s] were saving 15 or 20 years ago, which is […]
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Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias, was mentioned in a Portland Press Herald article about a Maine wildlife biologist who is trying to farm littleneck clams. Maine has barely any experience in hard-shell clam aquaculture in part of because wild quahogs have such a limited and uneven […]
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