WLBZ (Channel 2) and WABI (Channel 5) reported on exhibitions held by computer science students at the University of Maine to showcase original games they created. “We have people that have never programmed before and we have them coming up with games that are getting close to professional quality,” Curtis Meadow, one of the computer […]
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Sara Disselkamp, a social work student at the University of Maine, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) about Something to Snuggle, a nonprofit she created to provide blankets for children in the Maine foster care system. “Usually when they’re transitioned from their home into a different family, they don’t get to take any of their belongings […]
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Robert Wagner, the Henry W. Saunders Distinguished Professor in Forestry at the University of Maine and director of the Cooperative Forestry Research Unit, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about Maine’s next anticipated spruce budworm outbreak. During the last infestation from 1970 until 1985, the Maine Forest Service estimates the insect killed […]
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Cindy Isenhour, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine and a cooperating faculty with the Climate Change Institute, was a recent guest on The Takeaway, a national news radio program. Isenhour spoke about carbon emissions and how the average person can calculate and cut their carbon footprint. City dwellers consume a lot […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Portland Press Herald reported Amy Vachon, an assistant coach for the University of Maine women’s basketball team, has been named to the 2016 class of inductees for the Maine Sports Hall of Fame. As a player at UMaine, Vachon, of Augusta, set school and league assist records and guided the […]
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Multiple University of Maine events were included in the Bangor Daily News roundup “5 Things to do this Weekend.” Weekend performances included in the article were indie rockers Vundabar and Wyld Lyfe at the IMRC Center on Friday and Irish ensemble Danu’s holiday show at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Collins Center for the Arts. […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported entrepreneurs participating in Scratchpad Accelerator, a pilot program of the University of Maine in collaboration with the Maine Technology Institute, will participate in a Demo Day from 4–7 p.m. Dec. 11 at Seasons Restaurant in Bangor. The four companies — CourseStorm of Orono; Double Blue Analytics of Orono and Brunswick; Tip […]
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The University of Maine report, “Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” was cited in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “Shrimp, Lyme, wildflowers: How climate change is already changing Maine.” While temperatures fluctuate with the weather, Maine’s average annual temperature is on an upward trend, according to the article. The state’s average temperature rose 3 degrees Fahrenheit […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WABI (Channel 5) reported Josette Babineau, head coach of the University of Maine field hockey team, has been named the 2015 Northeast Region Coach of the Year by the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA). Under Babineau, UMaine set a school record for most wins in a season with 19. […]
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Skylar Bayer, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, was a recent guest on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on Maine’s coming scallop season and the related high prices and regulations. Bayer studies scallop reproduction and the sustainability of the scallop fishery in the […]
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