Nine University of Maine students participated in the 14th annual North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC) held in Liverpool, New York in April. In total, 274 students from 38 colleges across the U.S. and Canada who are training for careers in the dairy industry attended the event. The Dairy Challenge is a two-day competition for […]
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University of Maine seniors in the New Media Department are developing a fall detection device for older adults to use outside their homes. Benjamin Herold-Porter of Biddeford, Maine, and Heather Anderson of Jonesboro, Maine, have created a prototype that can detect when the person wearing the device has fallen and automatically text a programmed cell […]
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The University of Maine’s Communicators Summit 2.0, “Beyond the Brand: Integrated Communication” will be held 9–11:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 20 in Wells Conference Center. Provost Jeffrey E. Hecker will give a welcome and overview. The event will feature a discussion of UMaine’s current communication and branding efforts, as well as emerging initiatives from 9–10:30 a.m., […]
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A candlelight vigil for victims of the recent earthquake in Nepal will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 30 on the steps of Fogler Library. More than 4,800 people were killed and more than 9,200 were injured in the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that occurred April 25. More than eight million people, including one million […]
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Oceanographer Emmanuel Boss became a member of the International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group Committee at its 20th annual meeting March 3–5 in France. Boss is a professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences. Other members hail from South Korea, South Africa, Ghana, Italy, India, Germany, Japan, France, Australia, People’s Republic of China, Canada, […]
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University of Maine graduates and distinguished engineers will be inducted into the Francis Crowe Society during two ceremonies on Saturday, May 9. The College of Engineering will host a ceremony from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts. The School of Engineering Technology will host a ceremony from 10 to 11 […]
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Friends and colleagues of Gianna Marrs, retiring director of the University of Maine’s Office of Student Financial Aid, have created a scholarship in her name. The scholarship was created to celebrate Marrs’ retirement after 29 years of service to UMaine. Jeffery Mills, president and CEO of the University of Maine Foundation, announced the scholarship at […]
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University of Maine students, faculty and staff will take part in Maine Day, the annual campuswide spring cleanup tradition, on Wednesday, April 29. UMaine community members will complete service projects aimed at sprucing up the campus, enjoy a free barbecue, and compete for the oozeball — mud volleyball — championship. About 40 projects will include […]
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John William Mukose, a third-year chemical engineering major and Honors College student, is the winner of the 2015 John M. Rezendes Annual Ethics Essay Competition. Mukose of Kampala, Uganda received $2,800 and a commemorative sculpture for his essay, “The Ethics of Using Indoor Residual Spraying of DDT to Control Malaria in Uganda.” Afton Hupper, a […]
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The College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture has presented its 2015 top student and faculty awards: Undergraduate Awards: Stephanie Wood, Wallace C. and Janet S. Dunham Prize; Riju Shrestha, Outstanding International Student; and Gwendolyn Beacham, Frank B. and Charles S. Bickford Memorial Prize. Graduate Awards: Kaitlyn O’Donnell, Norris Charles Clements Graduate Student Award; Noah […]
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