The Maine Edge and The Weekly published a University of Maine news release announcing organizers of UMaine’s inaugural Black Bear Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K are seeking volunteers to assist on race day and at packet pickup, as well as host cheer stations along the route. The races begin at 7:30 a.m. Sunday, June 21 […]
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The Daily Bulldog reported the University of Maine singing group Renaissance will perform at 7 p.m. May 19 at Mt. Blue High School in Farmington. Renaissance is a women’s auditioned a cappella vocal ensemble that performs a variety of choral music including contemporary pop vocal styles, according to the article.
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Enjoy the taste of summer fruits and vegetables all throughout the year by taking the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Preserving the Harvest workshop 5:30–8:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 23 at UMaine Regional Learning Center, 75 Clearwater Drive, Falmouth. The workshop, led by UMaine Extension staff members, includes hands-on, USDA-recommended food preservation methods. Participants will preserve […]
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Maine EPSCoR, the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, was mentioned in the Mainebiz article “Training budding scientists: Federal funding boosts Maine’s science and technology workforce.” EPSCoR was established by the National Science Foundation in 1978 for states that typically receive small amounts of federal R&D funding, according to the article. Maine became an EPSCoR […]
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Jennifer Hooper, the mentoring and business coordinator at the Foster Center for Student Innovation and the Target Technology Incubator at the University of Maine, wrote a column for Mainebiz titled “How to develop a workforce using interns.” Hooper wrote about the Innovate for Maine program, managed by UMaine, which connects Maine college students with growing […]
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The Associated Press reported citizen volunteer training began May 16 at the University of Maine for the Maine Bumble Bee Atlas project. The training workshop is the first to begin to show residents how to gather information about the range and abundance of the state’s bees, according to the report. The Maine Bumble Bee Atlas […]
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The Bangor Daily News published five major points made by Dr. Jonathan Shay, a psychiatrist and combat trauma expert, during his talk “Combat Trauma and the Trials of Coming Home” on May 13 at the University of Maine. More than 250 people attended the keynote address of the fifth annual Conference of the Maine Military […]
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The Free Press reported Environmental Living and Learning for Maine Students (ELLMS), a collaboration between five residential environmental learning centers in Maine, received an award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA 2015 Environmental Merit Award recognizes individuals and organizations for environmental stewardship and dedication to environmental progress, according to the article. ELLMS was […]
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The University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation will host the annual Maine Invention Convention from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 16 at the New Balance Student Recreation Center on campus. About 120 students from 12 middle schools will compete in the 2015 statewide competition that promotes innovative problem solving and inventing […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) spoke with Benjamin Herold-Porter and Heather Anderson, graduating seniors in the University of Maine’s New Media Department, about a fall detection device they developed for older adults to use outside their homes. For their capstone project, the students created a prototype that can detect when the person wearing the device has fallen […]
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