The University of Maine campus was packed Monday, Aug. 27 with thousands of visitors from around the country for the third Summer Tour, a UMaine admissions event that gave prospective students and their guests the opportunity to ask questions about UMaine, tour the campus, get a glimpse of student life and even skate on the […]
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The White House has named University of Maine economist Sharon Wagner a Champion of Change for leveraging her national service experience in AmeriCorps to become influential in her career. Wagner, an assistant professor in the School of Economics, served in AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps following her graduation from the University of Massachusetts. She was […]
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In Maine and elsewhere, aquaculturists, harvesters, researchers and those in the business of making products from marine macroalgae are increasingly interested in seaweed. This is due to some innovative research being conducted in the region, and because Maine now has the first and only commercial kelp aquaculture operation in the United States, Portland-based Ocean Approved […]
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The University of Maine Police Department recently donated surplus ballistic vests to the police service in Botswana, a landlocked country in sub-Saharan Africa. The vests, which had accumulated in storage, were shipped to members of the Botswana Police Service as part of the UMPD’s effort to recycle old and out-of-date equipment. UMaine police searched for […]
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The National Geographic website highlights UMaine marine scientist Rhian Waller’s research in Chile.
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A Maine oyster farmer’s experience inspires graduate students to develop a system for detecting pollutants in seawater.
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The Advanced Structures and Composites Center tests black locust samples bound for a park near the famed Brooklyn Bridge.
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One student’s experience working with the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium and taking a UMaine sculpture class.
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The University of Maine Division of Lifelong Learning is offering a bus tour Thursday in conjunction with the ongoing Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS) to sites where sculptures from previous symposia have been installed. The narrated, daylong tour begins at 9 a.m. at UMaine, where the current symposium is being held in partnership with the […]
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University of Maine professor of forest resources Doug Gardner will officially become a fellow of the Society of Wood Science and Technology (SWST) and other UMaine faculty members and students will be honored for their work this week at the SWST meeting in Beijing, China. SWST recognizes fellows for their significant contributions to the wood […]
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