The University of Maine, in partnership with Eastern Maine Healthcare System/Northern Light Health and Bangor Savings Bank, is participating in a national Education Design Lab project, designed to identify, recognize and match the workforce skills that college students need and employers want. UMaine is one of seven colleges participating in a yearlong 21st Century Skills […]
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Facilitating effective communication between scientists working in national parks and the public is the focus of a new publication by the National Park Service (NPS) in collaboration with the University of Maine. The report, “Science in Places of Grandeur: Communication and Engagement in National Parks,” was published in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology and […]
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More than 1,000 elementary and middle school age students from around the state will be at the University of Maine Oct. 9 to attend two daylong events — Expanding Your Horizons, and the Northern Maine Children’s Water Festival. Expanding Your Horizons, an event hosted by UMaine for more than a decade, facilitates connections between middle […]
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A team of University of Maine researchers has been awarded $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to examine the relationships among the spread of mosquito-transmitted diseases, perceptions of mosquito-borne disease risk and human travel, including domestic and international tourism. The five-year project, “Coupled Dynamics of Tourism and Mosquito-Borne Disease Transmission in the Americas,” is […]
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The importance of leadership will be the focus of this year’s Senator Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Lecture, to be given by retired Vice Admiral Nora Tyson at the University of Maine Oct. 2. Tyson’s lecture, “Margaret Chase Smith and Me: The Importance of Leadership,” will begin at 3:30 p.m. in Hauck Auditorium. The event […]
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Sen. George J. Mitchell will, for the first time, give the annual Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability at the University of Maine on Oct. 4. Drawing on his decades of work in public service and as a skilled negotiator, Mitchell’s talk, “Healing Our Democracy,” will explore how we can increase our capacity for solving problems through […]
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The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies was recently awarded $2.7 million in administrative core funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Disabilities. As Maine’s University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), the center is part of a national network of university-based centers that are […]
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Maine fishermen hauled in 110.8 million pounds of lobsters in 2017 with a value of more than $400 million. While still incredibly large, this volume represented a 16 percent decline and $100 million loss compared to previous years of record-setting landings. Since the late 1980s Maine’s lobster landings have multiplied six fold, while the area […]
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An international team of researchers, including Heather Leslie of the University of Maine, has released a new tool for assessing ocean conservation. The Conservation Planning Database project is a free, peer-reviewed online resource for conservation scientists and practitioners to understand how marine conservation has been approached in various places throughout the world. “This database gives […]
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For years, hazing on college campuses has been an under-the-radar concern. Occasionally, especially when it results in death, hazing has received heightened scrutiny, both inside and outside higher education. But for the most part, it’s an issue that’s rarely discussed. In recent years, University of Maine professor of higher education Elizabeth Allan has been trying […]
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