WABI (Channel 5) reported on exhibitions held by computer science students at the University of Maine to showcase original video games. Students from COS 125 and COS 312 demonstrated the games they built throughout the semester and competed for a cash prize. “The idea of the demo here is to get other people to play […]
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Broadly mentioned research from a 2008 University of Maine study in an article about an alleged violent hazing ritual at Hofstra University in New York. The study, which was conducted by researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden, estimates that 47 percent of college students come to college having experienced some form of hazing. Additionally, 25 […]
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Maine Public reported on the scheduled launch of University of Maine-designed technology headed to the International Space Station. The wireless leak detection system — a safety system that alerts astronauts to potentially dangerous loss of heat and air — was designed by University of Maine scientists, Maine Public reported. The leak detector was part of […]
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Medill News Service reported on the 2016 Comer Abrupt Climate Change Conference in Chicago, where Aaron Putnam, an assistant professor of Earth sciences with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, gave a presentation on his research in Mongolia’s Altai Mountains. Putnam and a team of researchers spent six weeks collecting boulder samples in the […]
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Medical Daily reported on new research from the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study (MSLS) that confirms people who eat chocolate at least once a week have a lower prevalence of diabetes and are at lower risk for a diagnosis of diabetes four to five years later. The study also indicates the relation between the frequency of chocolate […]
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Dulcinea Groff, a Ph.D. candidate with the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, spoke with Utah Public Radio for a story about researchers using crowdfunding to raise money to support their work. “Two years ago we started a campaign on the same platform — experiment.com — and we raised about $11,000, in a month,” Groff […]
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The Bangor Daily News announced results of a citywide “livability” survey were released Wednesday in a preliminary report, closing the first phase of a project to improve Bangor’s living environment for residents of all ages. Members of the Bangor Livable Communities Committee gathered to review the report, which was presented by staff from the University […]
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Ali Abedi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on the Pulse Morning Show (WZON AM 620). Abedi, director of the Wireless Sensing Laboratory (WiSe-Net Lab) on campus, spoke about the scheduled space launch of the wireless leak detection system he developed with other UMaine researchers […]
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University of Maine paleoecologist and plant ecologist Jacquelyn Gill told Business Insider that NASA data on Earth’s climate provides a critical baseline of comparison, as she and other researchers study climate change over millions of years. Last month, Bob Walker, an adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, told The Guardian newspaper that the incoming administration was […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported Orono-based startup Revolution Research Inc. was among the recipients sharing a $1.3 million award from the Environmental Protection Agency. Revolution Research won $100,000 to design the manufacturing process for a bio-based ceiling tile that is durable, nonhazardous and can be composted, according to the article. The tiles also must have […]
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