NBC Los Angeles reported on the recent expansion of the University of Maine’s Flagship Match financial aid program to California. UMaine’s Flagship Match is a competitive scholarship program that guarantees academically qualified, first-year students from several states will pay the same tuition and fee rate as their home state’s flagship institution. The program, which was […]
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WABI (Channel 5) attended a meeting of the University of Maine student group Engineers Without Borders. Members of the group gathered at the Foster Center for Student Innovation for their final weekly meeting before their upcoming trip to Ecuador. From Dec. 16 through Jan. 11, four student members and one mentor will embark on a […]
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Ali Abedi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on the Pulse Morning Show (WZON AM 620). Abedi, director of the Wireless Sensing Laboratory (WiSe-Net Lab) on campus, spoke about the scheduled space launch of the wireless leak detection system he developed with other UMaine researchers […]
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University of Maine media historian and journalism professor Michael Socolow writes in the Columbia Journalism Review that news outlets covering the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor displayed some of the same bad habits that still plague journalism today. “A look back at the reporting on Pearl Harbor,” writes Socolow in CJR, “shows how little has […]
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University of Maine paleoecologist and plant ecologist Jacquelyn Gill told Business Insider that NASA data on Earth’s climate provides a critical baseline of comparison, as she and other researchers study climate change over millions of years. Last month, Bob Walker, an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, told The Guardian newspaper that the incoming administration was […]
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In a story celebrating National Brownie Day, the Portland Press Herald noted it was former University of Maine instructor Mildred Brown “Brownie” Schrumpf who contended, for years, that Maine invented the yummy dessert. Over her roughly 70-year career, Schrumpf, who died in 2001 at age 98, taught home economics at UMaine and camp cookery to […]
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Morning Ag Clips and Seacoast Online reported applications are now being accepted for the 2017 University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteer training programs in York and Cumberland counties. Morning Ag Clips reported the Cumberland County sessions, which begin Feb. 3 in Falmouth, will place on 16 consecutive Friday afternoons. A Master Gardener is […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported Orono-based startup Revolution Research Inc. was among the recipients sharing a $1.3 million award from the Environmental Protection Agency. Revolution Research won $100,000 to design the manufacturing process for a bio-based ceiling tile that is durable, nonhazardous and can be composted, according to the article. The tiles also must have […]
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UMBC News reported on a recent online discussion forum moderated by Nathan Stormer, chair of the Communication and Journalism Department at the University of Maine. Experts from National Geographic, NPR and other national leaders in the arts, humanities and sciences connected by webcam last week to discuss 10 images for “How Science is Pictured in […]
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Darren Ranco, an associate professor of anthropology and director of Native American research at the University of Maine, took part in a panel discussion on indigenous lands and environmental justice, according to a Bowdoin news release. The Brunswick event provided historical context for and analysis of the protest against a proposed oil pipeline sited close […]
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