WMTW (ABC 8 in Portland) and the Portland Press Herald highlighted research on budworm outbreaks from a state task force in which the University of Maine Cooperative Forestry Research Unit is a partner. The research states that every 30 to 60 years, there is an outbreak and severe defoliation. Maine is expected to have outbreak […]
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The Bangor Daily News highlighted research that was conducted as part of a partnership between the University of Maine and U.S. Department of Agriculture in the early 1960s to breed abnaki potatoes. These potatoes are rare to find today, except in traces of popular breed varieties that have descended from them, but were described as […]
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Maine Public featured James Anderson, an engineer at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, on a segment of ”Maine Calling” to discuss an alternative to firefighting foam he is developing that is free from a group of chemicals known as PFAS: Firefighting BioGel. The gel is expected to be both safer for […]
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Seattle’s NPR news station KUOW highlighted hazing education and prevention efforts at the University of Maine led by Elizabeth Allan, professor of higher education leadership, during an interview with Jolayne Houtz, whose son, Sam Martinez, died of alcohol poisoning due to hazing at a Washington State University fraternity event in 2019. Houtz and her husband […]
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The U.S. Senate last week passed the Stop Campus Hazing Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at preventing hazing on college campuses nationwide. The legislation previously passed the House of Representatives, and has been sent to President Joe Biden for his signature. The act requires colleges and universities to implement comprehensive hazing prevention programs and to […]
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Mauricio Pereira Da Cunha, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine, has been named an IEEE Fellow, one of the highest distinctions awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The honor recognizes his contributions to the commercialization of harsh-environment microwave acoustics materials, sensors and systems. IEEE Fellow status […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2024-25 CUGR and Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) academic year graduate fellowship winners. The CUGR Research and Creative Activities fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate and graduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research and are supported through the Office of the Vice […]
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News Center Maine highlighted a business created by University of Maine alumni Justin Hafner (‘18) and David Holomakoff (‘14, ‘17G) that employs several other UMaine alumni. KinoTek, which is now being used by The Form Lab in Falmouth, is a program designed to analyze how the human body moves. Based out of Portland, the company […]
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The Bangor Daily News and News Center Maine highlighted research projects from the University of Maine that are focused on the effects of a group of chemicals known as PFAS. Two of the university’s projects are underway at Hunter Farm in Topsham; one is researching to what degree biochar is capturing PFAS and the other […]
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A University of Maine Interdisciplinary Ph.D. candidate tapped into the flagship university’s 3D-printing prowess to create educational musical performances that are as exciting to see as they are to hear. Ruixin Niu draws from her background as a violist, violinist and conductor to meld data-driven innovation with musical performance. To command her audience’s attention and […]
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