The Maine Center for Research in STEM Education (RiSE Center) at the University of Maine has been awarded more than $1.9 million from the National Science Foundation to create a model NSF Teaching Fellowship Program to improve STEM teacher recruitment, preparation, professional development and retention in rural high-need schools. This grant builds on the infrastructure […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated Feb. 25. The Historical Atlas of Maine has received the 2016 American Association of Geographers Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography. The atlas, the result of a 15-year scholarly project led by University of Maine researchers, offers a new geographical and historical interpretation of Maine, from the end of […]
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For some, a picture is worth a thousand words. For Jesica Waller, it’s worth $500, the opportunity to introduce people to her research through beautiful art and to be published in “Popular Science” magazine. Her photograph of a 3-week-old American lobster won the People’s Choice Award and its accompanying cash prize in the Vizzies, a […]
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The University of Maine has announced the selection of the Bangor region 2016 Top Gun Entrepreneurship Accelerator class. Top Gun is a four-month program that combines entrepreneurship curriculum with mentorship and culminates with a statewide event, which includes a pitch-off and product showcase. Top Gun is hosted in the Bangor region by UMaine and is […]
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An endowed chaired professorship in literature named in honor of best-selling author and University of Maine alumnus Stephen King will be established at his alma mater with the help of a $1 million award from the Harold Alfond Foundation. The Stephen E. King Chair in Literature will support a faculty position in the Department of […]
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The Maine Business School at the University of Maine has earned an accreditation extension by the world’s most prestigious international accrediting institution for business programs, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Only about 5 percent of the world’s more than 15,000 business schools are accredited by AACSB International. The renewed five-year accreditation […]
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The University of Maine has been selected as one of 37 institutions nationwide as partners with the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Beginning in mid-June, UMaine will host 25 emerging public management leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa for a six-week academic and leadership institute, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. The Mandela Washington […]
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Could the rise of the Mongol Empire, the greatest land empire ever on Earth, have been linked to climate change? Aaron Putnam thinks so. In 2010 and 2011, Putnam, previously at Columbia University and now an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute at the University of […]
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At age 7, Sky Heller was captivated digging through a buried trash heap protruding from an eroding bank at her family’s farm in the foothills of Pennsylvania. “When I found out I could do it for a career, I’ve never looked back,” says Heller, now a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology and environmental policy at the […]
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The University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute will host this year’s international conference on behalf of the International Society of Fish & Shellfish Immunology (ISFSI). This is the second international conference of the ISFSI and the first time the global group of researchers and industry leaders will gather outside Europe. The International Conference of Fish […]
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