Gabriel Frey and Suzanne Greenlaw strive to honor the tradition, celebrate the present and preserve the future of basketmaking. And the husband and wife will be selling baskets at the 22nd annual Maine Indian Basketmakers Holiday Market on Saturday, Dec. 10, in the Hudson Museum at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University […]
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This December, a wireless leak detection system created by University of Maine researchers is scheduled to head to the International Space Station (ISS). The prototype, which was tested by NASA and in the inflatable lunar habitat and Wireless Sensing Laboratory (WiSe-Net Lab) on campus, could lead to increased safety on ISS and in other space […]
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Nearly four decades after it began, a University of Maine program that brings women with international roots together for internationally themed lunches and presentations, is still going strong, the Bangor Daily News reports. Every month, roughly 40 women and children meet in the basement of the Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono to try international […]
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She got the assignment a week ago, an essay asking her to outline the strategies she’d use to teach in a multicultural classroom. At first, the words came. Paragraphs even. But then, just as quickly, nothing. A blank screen. “I had a little bit and I just didn’t really know where to go from there,” […]
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Editor’s note: Details on additional initiatives will be added when they become available. University of Maine groups campuswide are leading charitable giving efforts for the holiday season. The Black Bear Exchange, UMaine’s food pantry and clothing exchange, will offer Thanksgiving meals to its clients who remain in the area for the holiday. The CEAC (Classified […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the recipients of the Research and Creative Activities Fellowships for 2016–17. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research and creative activities, and are supported through the office of the Vice President for Research. Each fellowship provides a […]
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A team of around a dozen students with the University of Maine’s Alternative Breaks program will gather at 719 County Road in Milford on Friday, Nov. 11 at 9 a.m. to paint the home of a veteran who is disabled. Milford resident Rachel Putnam, who served in the U.S. Navy from 1979–99 as an aviation […]
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A giant map of Europe is currently taking up a portion of the gymnasium floor at Leonard Middle School in Old Town, where students are using it to study the geography and culture of the continent. It’s the second consecutive year that University of Maine College of Education and Human Development Assistant Professor Patrick Womac […]
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The Katherine Miles Durst Child Development Learning Center at the University of Maine recently earned reaccreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children — the nation’s leading organization of early childhood professionals. “It means we’re the best of the best,” says center coordinator Margo Brown. “It’s just recognition for what we do […]
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Tomorrow’s election will be a real-time learning laboratory for University of Maine students in an Introduction to Journalism class. The class, led by assistant professor and CLAS-preceptor journalism Joshua Roiland, is putting out the UMaine Telegraph, an online publication that will cover voting and election results in local, state and national races. Roiland’s 29 students […]
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