The annual Graduate School picnic is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 14 from 4-6 p.m. on the Stodder Hall patio. Graduate students with their families, faculty members and support personnel are all invited to attend. The rain date is Thursday, Sept. 15
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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will be at the University of Maine on Thursday, Aug. 18 from approximately 1:45-3:15 p.m. Salazar, a former Democratic U.S. Senator from Colorado who has been a member of the Obama cabinet since January, 2009, will be in Maine for a series of meetings arranged by Sen. Susan […]
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University of Maine business and economics student Rachel Binder-Hathaway, currently in Bangladesh helping impoverished people access small business loans, has received a prestigious Pearson Prize in Higher Education.
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In an interview with the Bangor Daily News, University of Maine President Paul Ferguson listed research and a 21st century focus as keys to the future.
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The University of Maine’s Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (LASST) has received a $1.2 million grant from the Department of Energy to develop new high temperature sensor technology for reducing emissions and increasing the efficiency of fossil fuel energy plant operations.
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The University of Maine’s Intermedia Master of Fine Arts is presenting “Without Borders VIII: Breaking Ground” Aug. 12-Sept. 16 in the Lord Hall gallery on campus.
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A larval zebrafish model developed by University of Maine biomedical scientists is providing unprecedented, real-time views of the little-understood interactions between immune cells and fungal pathogens in blood vessels.
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The University of Maine is ranked among the top colleges and universities on a national scale, according to Princeton Review, Fiske Guide to Colleges and Forbes’ “America’s Top Colleges.”
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An independent New York production company is holding a casting call Friday, Aug. 5 at UMaine’s Lord Hall for area actors aged 15-19 for a film, “Bluebird,” being made in northern Maine this winter. Leading roles will be available for some of the students selected for the cast, according to Vacationland Films. Bluebird is described […]
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An Orono podiatrist is on the cusp of a technological breakthrough with a new medical instrument — an electronic tuning fork — that he’s developing with assistance from students and staff at the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center.
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