Campus Announcements

Black Bear 5K Oct. 25

The University of Maine will host the Black Bear 5K at 11 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 25. The race is part of the Tradewinds Marketplace/Sub 5 Track Club Road Race Series and is sponsored by UMaine Campus Recreation. The $12 registration can be completed at the front desk of the New Balance Student Recreation Center or […]

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UMaine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center a resource to Maine businesses

https://youtu.be/zrdowv7PWDI Transcript The Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) at the University of Maine is a first-class resource for businesses and entrepreneurs. Each year, the AMC produces dozens of prototypes for industries, inventors, and small businesses. The AMC provides product prototyping services, consultation, product research, product testing, and commercialization services. Want to add the latest engineering and […]

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MaineESP receives 2015 Philip Marcoux Award

The Maine Elementary Sciences Partnership (MaineESP) received the 2015 Philip Marcoux Award from the Maine Science Teachers Association (MSTA) at its annual conference in Gardiner on Oct. 9. The award recognizes a science education professional or partnership that makes continuous and enduring contributions to science education; demonstrates capacity for creating and implementing successful science education-related […]

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Live stream available of White House awards ceremony honoring Dagher

The White House will provide a live stream of the 2015 Champions of Change awards ceremony starting at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13. The event will focus on “Innovators in Transportation for the Future,” and will recognize Habib Dagher, founding director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center. Dagher is among 11 […]

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UMaine scientific divers win awards at AAUS Symposium

Three scientific divers with ties to the University of Maine received awards at the 2015 American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) Symposium in Florida. Marissa McMahan, a Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University in Illinois, is a former UMaine student and assistant instructor for an introduction to research diving course. She was the recipient of the […]

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Hancock County 4-H Awareness Day Oct. 17

University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H in Hancock County is holding a 4-H Awareness Day 10 a.m.– 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17 at Tractor Supply Co., 461 High St., Ellsworth. The day will include science activities, horse and pony rides, and displays with food for sale from area 4-H clubs and groups. For more information […]

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Maine INBRE program recognized by MDF as Champion of Innovation

The Maine IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) was recognized as a Champion of Innovation at the Maine Development Foundation’s 37th annual meeting in September. Maine INBRE is a collaborative network of Maine educational and research institutions led by the MDI Biological Laboratory and sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) […]

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Explore soil, extinctions at UMaine 4-H Science Saturday

The connection between fire, people, soil and extinct foxes is part of a University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H Science Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 24 at Sawyer Environmental Research Center on the UMaine campus in Orono. Youth in grades six through eight will learn to use a coring device to collect […]

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Wittmann named American Physical Society Fellow

Michael Wittmann, chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, professor of physics, and cooperating professor of education, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Fellowship in the American Physical Society is limited to no more than one half of 1 percent of the membership and is a recognition by peers of […]

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