Noah Oppenheim, a graduate student at the University of Maine Darling Center in Walpole, Maine, has been awarded a Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship. The one-year paid fellowship provides a unique educational experience to graduate students interested in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources, and in national policy decisions affecting those resources. It matches graduate students […]
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The University of Maine was recognized as one of the best colleges or universities for employers who want to hire high-quality engineering graduates. UMaine ranked fifth on College Recruiter’s list of the “Top 12 Hidden Gem Colleges for Employers Hiring Electrical and Communications Engineering Majors.” College Recruiter is the leading niche job board used by […]
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The University of Maine will host an annual six-day undergraduate student leadership training program for women that aims to educate and empower young leaders. Maine NEW (National Education for Women) Leadership runs from Thursday, May 28 through Tuesday, June 2 at the Orono campus with trips to Augusta and Skowhegan. A diverse group of 28 […]
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University of Maine oceanographers are part of a collaborative international team studying the microscopic world of plankton. During expeditions from 2009 to 2013 aboard Tara, researchers collected 35,000 samples from the world’s oceans. Data generated from the samples are providing unprecedented resources — including a catalog of several million new genes — expected to transform […]
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Thought you had it tough shoveling the walkway this winter? Corianne Tatariw and Kaizad Patel cleared four 16.5-foot by 33-foot plots of land in University Forest in Old Town every time it snowed. All in a quest for knowledge. Tatariw and Patel are pursuing doctoral degrees in ecology and environmental science at the University of […]
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MPBN highlighted a device built by University of Maine new media students that senses when a person has fallen and uses mobile networks to send assistance. The device, which was tested on volunteer ice skaters, has a gyroscope that detects movement, a cell module and a microcontroller that interprets data. It can be worn on […]
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Felicia Cowger, a third-year accounting major from Weston, Maine, has been awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study in Alicante, Spain this summer. Cowger is one of more than 1,000 American undergraduate students from 332 colleges and universities across the U.S. selected to receive the scholarship that allows them to study or intern […]
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Kreutz, students part of ice core team that links abrupt temperature changes in Arctic, Antarctic.
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UMaine students design device for girl with one hand to play recorder.
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University of Maine associate professor Denise Skonberg and graduate student Dhriti Nayyar are working with a Bristol company to study the shelf life and nutritional values of aquacultured sea vegetable products. Maine Fresh Sea Farms, a startup based on the Damariscotta River, is one of five Maine companies to share $471,571 in Value Added Producer […]
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