The Bangor Daily News reported on research conducted by three graduate social work students at the University of Maine. Last fall, Mikala Thompson, Alaina Crowley and Daniel Cohen began researching how many doctors in the state prescribed Suboxone, which is used to treat opioid addiction, according to the article. Three months after the students began […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported members of the University of Maine Nepalese community are working to generate awareness and raise money to help victims of the recent earthquake. Riju Shrestha, a senior biochemistry major from Kathmandu, said the group is raising money to send to Grande International Hospital, which is currently providing free medical service […]
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University of Maine seniors in the New Media Department are developing a fall detection device for older adults to use outside their homes. Benjamin Herold-Porter of Biddeford, Maine, and Heather Anderson of Jonesboro, Maine, have created a prototype that can detect when the person wearing the device has fallen and automatically text a programmed cell […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the presentation of seven teams of University of Maine Mechanical Engineering Technology students who unveiled devices they designed to allow an 8-year-old girl with one hand to play the recorder. The students presented their senior capstone projects to several judges, as well as Nia, the local girl who was born […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on Maine Day, the University of Maine’s annual campuswide spring cleanup tradition. Throughout the day, UMaine community members completed service projects aimed at sprucing up campus, enjoyed a free barbecue, and competed for the oozeball — mud volleyball — championship. “We use the university grounds for everything, and we live here […]
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David Fuller, an agricultural and non-timber forest products professional with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, wrote an article for the Bangor Daily News titled “How to identify, pick and cook fiddleheads — and when to leave them alone.” Fuller also will speak at the fourth annual Maine Fiddlehead Festival on May 2 at the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the Maine Business School’s International Trade Fair held on campus. The fair offers an opportunity for students to learn about commerce around the world and explore business opportunities abroad, according to the report. “It’s interactive,” said UMaine sophomore Tim King. “This whole project we had to go and figure out […]
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A candlelight vigil for victims of the recent earthquake in Nepal will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 30 on the steps of Fogler Library. More than 4,800 people were killed and more than 9,200 were injured in the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that occurred April 25. More than eight million people, including one million […]
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The Associated Press reported Maine officials are looking for volunteers to help with the Maine Bumble Bee Atlas project to document bee range and abundance. A Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife spokesman said the project is important because of significant declines in some species since the 1990s, according to the article. The project […]
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Fosters.com reported the annual plant sale of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers in York County will be May 16 at the UMaine Extension office in Springvale. Annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs, trees, shrubs and houseplants will be for sale, as well as gently used gardening books and tools, according to the article. […]
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