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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Nicholas Willey once planned to be a lawyer. Then, at his mother’s suggestion, the then-Caribou High School student attended the free University of Maine Pulp & Paper Foundation program “Consider Engineering” that gives juniors insight into the field. “It really opened my eyes to what engineering encompassed,” says Willey. As well as persuasively made the […]
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Two marine science students at the University of Maine started off 2016 a little differently than they had previous years. For five days, Ashley Rossin and Elise Hartill collected red tree corals, Primnoa pacifica, from the Tracy Arm Fjord — a narrow, deep inlet of the sea nestled between high cliffs — located just south […]
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There is a long list of learning objectives for the HON 150/155 phage genomics course, in which first-year undergraduates conduct hands-on research. They learn how to purify and isolate novel bacteriophages — viruses that infect bacterial hosts — from soil samples. The students learn how to characterize their individual phages — which have the miniscule […]
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