The Bangor Daily News and The Maine Edge reported on a three-year, $2 million research project being led by University of Maine researchers that will use a popular video game to immerse rural Maine students in computer science and math concepts. Bruce Segee, the Henry R. and Grace V. Butler Professor of Electrical and Computer […]
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When Hannah Morgan, third-year bioengineering student at the University of Maine, was in 8th grade, she attended an event at UMaine that introduced her to the field of engineering. She was hooked. When she came to tour UMaine’s bioengineering department the summer before her senior year of high school, she knew her decision was made. […]
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Two University of Maine researchers have received a $500,000 National Science Foundation award to advance scientists’ ability to analyze massive data samples collected by real-time sensors. Today, sensors are only capable of taking samples at discrete points in space, such as taking hundreds of individual photographs. Often times, the data has to be physically retrieved […]
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Researchers at the University of Maine have received a $1 million federal grant from the U.S Department of Agriculture to continue their efforts in boosting organic grain production in northern New England. “We are very excited by this new USDA award in that it recognizes the impact of the work we’ve done with farmers, millers […]
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An underwater sea slug has evolved chemical foraging and defense abilities that are functionally identical to those of terrestrial insects, despite being unrelated to their land-based counterparts and living in vastly different habitats for 400 million years. “Specialized herbivores on land and sea appear to make a living in similar ways,” says University of Maine […]
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The Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory at the University of Maine will hold its third annual open house from 4–6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7. The lab, located in Carnegie Hall, is part of the spatial informatics program in the School of Computing and Information Science and houses Maine’s only research facility that combines […]
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Using a popular video game to immerse rural Maine students in computer science and math concepts is the focus of a three-year, $2 million research project being led by University of Maine researchers. Bruce Segee, the Henry R. and Grace V. Butler Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMaine, is leading the project that […]
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University of Maine researcher Paul Mayewski and the Climate Change Institute are lauded in the recent World Ocean Radio program “Climate Future Planning.” Host Peter Neill, director of the World Ocean Observatory, hails the work of Mayewski and CCI for creating a “software matrix that relates changes in the environment to plausible, scalable scenarios and […]
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Seacoastonline reported seven students from Traip Academy in Kittery attended the weeklong Stormwater Research Institute at the University of Maine over the summer. The students learned about the importance of stormwater drainage and how it can affect other bodies of water, according to the article. “I live close to the water, and it’s interesting to […]
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Climate change research from the University of Maine was cited in the Portland Press Herald article, “Climate change becomes a matter of mental health.” The article cited a study by three UMaine professors — Mark Anderson, Caroline Noblet and Mario Teisl — on environment and values from the summer of 2010. The study, which was […]
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