For 15 years, University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s statewide Maine Harvest for Hunger (MHH) program has organized gardeners, farmers, businesses, schools and civic groups to grow, glean, and donate high-quality produce to distribution sites (pantries, shelters, community meals) and directly to neighbors in need, all in an effort to mitigate hunger, improve nutrition and health, and help […]
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The Bangor and University of Maine police departments have launched a new Kids ‘n’ Kops trading card program intended to raise awareness about bullying and substance abuse prevention among elementary and middle school youngsters. The series of 14 trading cards features male and female UMaine student-athletes who play Division I sports at the state’s flagship […]
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To help companies apply for a regional entrepreneurship acceleration program, the University of Maine will host four workshops. Applications are currently being accepted for the 2016 Top Gun Maine Bangor Region Class. The area’s entrepreneurs with aspirations to achieve high growth through innovation will compete for a limited number of seats in the five-month program […]
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The Harold Alfond W2 Ocean Engineering Lab at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center is one of five U.S. facilities competitively selected to conduct 1:50-scale testing as part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Wave Energy Prize this December. The Wave Energy Prize is a 20-month design-build-test prize competition that seeks […]
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University of Maine Director of Athletics Karlton Creech has announced that Joe Harasymiak will become the next University of Maine football head coach, effective Jan. 1, 2016. “I am extremely excited and honored to be chosen as the next head football coach here at the University of Maine,” said Harasymiak. “To think of all of […]
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For a second year, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H will connect K–12 students in Maine and around the country to UMaine researchers in the field as part of its Follow a Researcher program. The program aims to give students a glimpse into a scientist’s world by providing live expedition updates and facilitating communication […]
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UMaine’s rollout of the Maine Matters program and the Flagship Match financial aid packages reaffirms UMaine’s commitment to making higher education affordable for Maine students, and bringing the best and the brightest into the state — future leaders, community members and workforce. Maine Matters is aimed at reducing the cost of higher education for middle- […]
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Joshua Stoll, University of Maine Ph.D. candidate in the School of Marine Sciences, has been selected as a Switzer Environmental Fellow by the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. This year, the Switzer Foundation awarded 22 fellowships of $15,000 each for emerging environmental leaders who are pursuing graduate degrees and are dedicated to positive environmental change. […]
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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., members of the University of Maine community will pack between 20,000 and 30,000 meals for distribution to local food pantries on Jan. 23. The university recently was awarded a $1,800 grant from Iowa Campus Compact to aid the MLK Day of Service Community Partnership Project. The project is […]
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A prominent University of Maine oceanographer will deliver a lecture named in honor of her inspiration, pioneer marine biologist Rachel Carson, at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting in December in San Francisco. School of Marine Sciences Professor Mary Jane Perry’s address is titled “The Subpolar North Atlantic Spring Bloom – What Did We Learn […]
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