Bangor-area media highlight 2024 commencement
The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5) and WFVX promoted the University of Maine’s 2024 commencement ceremonies.
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The Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5) and WFVX promoted the University of Maine’s 2024 commencement ceremonies.
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WFVX (Fox 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) interviewed 2024 University of Maine co-valedictorians Michael Delorge and Lydia Gilmore the evening of Friday, May 3. Delorge and Gilmore talked about what being named co-valedictorians meant for them and how it was an opportunity to reflect on their experiences at UMaine. Gilmore highlighted her commitment as a student […]
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Brig. Gen. Diane Dunn, adjutant general of the Maine National Guard and commissioner of the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, told University of Maine’s newest graduates to continue in an endless pursuit of knowledge, find passion in their work and live their lives in service of others. “I know the words — learn, […]
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The University of Maine student chapter of the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) placed third in the baccalaureate division of the 2024 NSPS Student Competition, held April 22-23 in Washington, D.C. Eighteen teams completed a surveying monument hunt across the District of Columbia on the first day, followed by historical surveying field exercises and […]
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News Center Maine interviewed Bonnie Newsom, a University of Maine associate professor of anthropology, about a new effort involving her, UMaine Ph.D. students and the National Park Service to protect Wabanaki archaeological sites in Acadia National Park from climate change using Indigenous and western knowledge. Federal funding will support the project, which will involve devising […]
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The University of Maine men’s rugby club team won the 2024 National Collegiate Rugby DII Championship held at Maryland Sportsplex on Saturday, April 27. Over a span of two days, the Black Bears defeated four other teams in a bracket that included a total of 16 teams. It was the third consecutive year the UMaine […]
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More than 1,000 student researchers, co-authors, faculty, staff, event sponsors and community members celebrated student achievement at the 2024 University of Maine Student Symposium for Research and Creative Activity on April 12. Among the 350 projects featured, 35 earned awards. The ninth annual symposium connected the public with UMaine student researchers and scholars who presented […]
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Mainebiz highlighted the University of Maine in an article about how colleges and universities in Maine have a long history of advancing and innovating their campuses despite economic downturns. During the 2008 recession, UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center partnered with a private company to use composite technology in bridge construction. The university’s Aroostook Farm […]
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Coverage from the Penobscot Bay Pilot of the 2024 Owls Head Transportation Museum STEM fest, held April 26-27, featured the work of three University of Maine undergraduate engineering students and instructional laboratory and lecture demonstration specialist David Sturm from the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The four worked together to use an electrostatic generator to […]
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WABI (CBS 5 in Bangor) featured a brief segment on senior capstone projects from computer science and new media students at the University of Maine on Friday, April 26. Students presented and displayed their year-long projects on the last day of classes at the Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center. This year’s projects for computing […]
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