University of Maine researchers developed an augmented reality smartphone app for teaching nursing students an interactive lesson about heart failure. The app displays a floating, animated heart model onto the smartphone screen, which is imposed onto the video feed from the camera. A heart failure lesson is embedded into the app and offers 45 swipeable […]
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University of Maine researchers are studying how changes in rainfall patterns caused by climate change could affect strawberries in the Northeast. Principal investigator Rachel Schattman, an assistant professor of sustainable agriculture, and her research team built a precipitation and cropping simulator to assess the effects of four possible rainfall scenarios on strawberries and other specialty […]
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National Geographic spoke with Andy Pershing, an associate professor of climate change at the University of Maine, and Robert Steneck, a professor of marine sciences at UMaine about climate change in the Gulf of Maine and the impact on the lobsters and the lobster fishery.
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When Sharon Tisher reflects on the climate crises that students in her courses are inheriting, she sometimes experiences a momentary loss of words. “My generation are the ones who allowed climate change to happen and benefited in many ways from the conveniences of burning fossil fuels,” she says. Then, the lecturer in the University of […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Jason Harkins, associate dean of the Maine Business School at the University of Maine, and Renee Kelly, an assistant vice president for innovation and economic development at UMaine, in reporting on small local businesses and start-up companies that have benefitted from partnerships with the University of Maine. Two such […]
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration cited several studies conducted by University of Maine faculty and students in reporting on changes in the lower Penobscot River ecosystem following the removal of two dams. The studies led by faculty in the School of Marine Sciences, the School of Biology and Ecology and the School of Earth […]
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Engineering News-Record New England reported that the construction of the Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center is moving forward in spite of rising prices and material and labor shortages. The new engineering center, which will house the biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering programs, is on track for completion in 2022.
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John Belding, director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC), will highlight opportunities for Maine manufacturers to tap into the services available at the university’s Center for Additive Manufacturing of Metals (CAMM) in an informational webinar scheduled for 10 a.m. June 16. CAMM is focused on the 3D-printing process that turns digital designs […]
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The Sun Journal cited a University of Maine study that revealed a connection between warmer late summer temperatures and drought and increases in the population of brown tail moth caterpillars.
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A novel liquid surface coating on human catheters could help reduce protein deposition that leads to urinary tract and bloodstream infections, according to researchers at the University of Maine and University of Notre Dame who are leading a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The research, funded by a five-year, upward of $2 […]
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