VillageSoup reported a group of seventh-grade students from Oceanside Middle School in Rockland joined more than 450 middle school girls from around the state at the annual University of Maine conference that aims to provide a safe and encouraging environment to explore science, technology, engineering and math. The 30th Expanding Your Horizons conference took place […]
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Mechanix Illustrated published the article, “Space tourism now and in the near future,” by Neil Comins, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Maine. Comins also was interviewed by ICI Radio-Canada Première about space travel and his latest book, “The Traveler’s Guide to Space: For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists.”
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The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the University of Maine’s football Pro Day. Professional football scouts from the NFL and CFL (Canadian Football League) put nine former Black Bear players through a variety of drills to see if they are potential candidates to be drafted […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on an innovative, wireless home technology, developed at the University of Maine, that could someday take the place of traditional, hard-wired sleep studies in a clinical setting. The technology used in the patented device, known as the SleepMove, has been used to analyze sleep patterns in newborns with opiate dependency, […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, was quoted in the CBS News report, “Arctic sea ice dwindles to record low for winter.” The National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado found that in March, the Arctic set a record low for winter peak sea ice area: 5.57 million square […]
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Melissa Landon, an associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Maine, for a report about potholes and their prevalence in the state this time of year. Landon told WABI potholes are formed throughout the winter by snow that melts, freezes and thaws. “[You have] snow and then you have […]
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Data collected by Daniel Harrison, a professor of wildlife at the University of Maine, was included in a Conway Daily Sun article on a Fryeburg selectman warning residents about a coyote he recently saw roaming around town. The best estimate the state has of the coyote population is about 12,000, which represents the “over-winter population,” […]
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Data from the Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine was cited in the Portland Press Herald article, “Judge rules that rockweed harvesters need landowners’ permission.” Jeff Nichols, spokesperson for the Maine Department of Marine Resources, said there were 134 licensed seaweed harvesters in Maine in 2016. They landed 13,977,313 pounds of […]
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The Portland Press Herald, Maine Public and Mainebiz reported on a new study released by the Maine Brewers’ Guild and conducted by the University of Maine School of Economics. The report is projecting growth of nearly 40 percent next year as the number of Maine’s craft brewers continues to increase, according to Maine Public. Maine […]
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The University of Maine’s SMART (Stormwater Management Research Team) program was mentioned in an Idaho Ed News feature on Alyssa Lu, a junior at Boise High School. Lu is committed to combating climate change, helping the environment, and making the world a better place for her generation and those that come after, the article states. […]
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