Heather Leslie will be a speaker at the Coastal Estuarine Research Federation conference Nov. 7 in Providence, Rhode Island. The director of the Darling Marine Center will talk about policies and practices that build resilience of coastal marine ecosystems and the human communities that depend on them. The Libra Associate Professor in the School of […]
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The Advanced Manufacturing Center at the University of Maine was mentioned in the EdTech: Focus on Higher Education article, “University manufacturing centers prove a boon for industry, too.” Companies rely on academic programs for both industrial research and future employees, according to Kurt Goodwin, general manager of Advanced Manufacturing Works for GE Power Systems. The […]
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The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) published an article written by Lisa Phelps, program administrator with University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Phelps wrote about the UMaine Cooperative Extension 4-H’s Follow a Researcher program. The program, now in its fourth year, uses technology and social media to connect K–12 classrooms with graduate students conducting […]
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The University of Maine’s Immersive Mathematics in Rendered Environments (IMRE) Laboratory was mentioned in a WABI (Channel 5) report about using virtual reality in rural Maine classrooms. Using a $10,000 grant from a software development company in Portland, East Grand School in Danforth recently installed two HTC Vive virtual reality systems with help from UMaine’s […]
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A group of 23 students from University of Maine new media professor Joline Blais’ digital narrative course has been working on a prototype for a virtual wild blueberry museum. The virtual museum would extend the work begun by the existing Wild Blueberry Land in Columbia Falls, created by Marie and Dell Emerson. Dell had previously […]
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release about the 30th annual Culturefest set Nov. 4 in the New Balance Student Recreation Center. The UMaine Office of International Programs and International Student Association will host the celebration of cultures from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The family-friendly event is free and open to […]
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The University of Maine will celebrate and promote international education and global cultural exchange through a variety of events in November. Events will begin Saturday, Nov. 4 with the 30th annual Culturefest at the New Balance Student Recreation Center, and will end Friday, Nov. 17 with the Solidarity Harvest volunteer opportunity. Other activities will include […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer “Cooking for Crowds — Food Safety Training for Volunteer Cooks” from 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 7, at UMaine Extension in Oxford County, 9 Olson Road, South Paris. The workshop offers up-to-date information on how to handle, transport, store and prepare foods safely for large group functions, including […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the “animal room” housed in the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Pest Management Office in Orono. For more than 30 years, Clay Kirby, the office’s insect diagnostician, has employed the collection’s millipedes, walking sticks and cockroaches in educational programs, such as Bug Maine-ia, a science education event held annually […]
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Machias Valley News Observer reported Joline Blais, a new media professor at the University of Maine, and about 20 of her students are working with a Columbia Falls couple to bring their real-life wild blueberry museum online. “For a long time I’d been looking for a way to help my state prosper,” said Blais, who […]
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