Spire: The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability will release its seventh and largest issue online April 21 in anticipation of Earth Day. Spire is a graduate student-run, interdisciplinary online journal based at the University of Maine, and it features environmental art, poetry and essays from contributors across the state, including students, staff and alumni. […]
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The University of Maine Climate Change Institute has announced the graduate students who won awards for their research presentations during the 2023 Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium. Ph.D. student Alessandro Mereghetti won first place for best overall talk for his presentation titled “Reconstructing Extinct Herbivore Community Structure Through High-Resolution Coprolite Analysis: An Insight into the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on an effort by the University of Maine School of Nursing, in partnership with Northern Light Health and Morgan State University, to diversify the nursing workforce in the state. The federal Health Resources and Services Administration awarded $1.7 million for the multiyear project in 2021. “Our concern was that we were […]
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The Bangor Daily News shared that the 2023 Annual UMaine Student Symposium for Research and Creative Activity will be held on April 14 from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts. For more information about the program, the book of abstracts and information on attending, visit the symposium webpage.
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The University of Maine and area law enforcement teams will participate in training exercises from 5–8 p.m. April 12, in the University Credit Union facility on Rangeley Road. For more information, contact UMaine PD, 207.581.4040.
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Brenna Jones of Mount Desert, Maine, spent her high school years either unhoused or precariously housed in the greater Bangor area with little to no support from adults. At times, she lived in her car, in which she kept all of her belongings; couch-surfed or slept in dorm rooms at Husson University. She kept food […]
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Twelve undergraduates have been named 2023 Outstanding Graduating Students at the University of Maine. Read their short biographies: Mille Baartvedt Mille Baartvedt of Oslo, Norway is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Education and Human Development. The kinesiology and physical education major is a Presidential Scholar. On campus, she has worked […]
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Mille Baartvedt of Oslo, Norway is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Education and Human Development. The kinesiology and physical education major is a Presidential Scholar. On campus, she has worked at the New Balance Student Recreation Center and as a teaching assistant, and been a member of the Maine chapter of […]
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Emily Davison of North Waterboro, Maine is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Education and Human Development. She is majoring in athletic training with a minor in child development and family relations. The UMaine Presidential Scholarship recipient also received the 2023 Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association Joseph Abraham Scholarship and 2022 Maine Athletic Trainers’ […]
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Kell Fremouw of Orono, Maine is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Engineering. The Honors College student is majoring in engineering physics, with a concentration in mechanical engineering and a minor in mathematics. Last summer, he was awarded a National Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Sensor Science and Engineering, and he has […]
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