CNN interviewed Sarah Howorth, associate professor of special education, about how AI can offer both benefits and drawbacks to learning in the classroom. “AI is a little bit like fire. When cavemen first discovered fire, a lot of people said, ‘Ooh, look what it can do,’” Howorth said. “And other people are like, ‘Ah, it […]
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Tony Sutton, assistant professor of Native American studies and food systems at the University of Maine, and Darren Ranco, chair of Native American Programs and professor of anthropology, were featured in Down East magazine. Ranco and Sutton, who is also affiliated with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke toward the power of land trusts and […]
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The University of Maine Institute of Medicine and organizing committee partners the Jackson Laboratory, MDI Biological Laboratory, MaineHealth, Northern Light Health, the Roux Institute at Northeastern University and University of New England are hosting the third Statewide Biomedical Science and Engineering Research Symposium on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 24-25 in Hannaford Hall on the University […]
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For much of her life, Dori Leadbetter didn’t think of herself as “college material.” She dropped out of high school, had two kids by age 20 and earned her GED during her second pregnancy. By age 39, as a recent divorcee with three children, Leadbetter discovered the Maine Educational Opportunity Center (MEOC), a federally funded […]
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A new series of courses and lectures at the University of Maine will honor the life and legacy of Dr. Bernard Lown (‘42). A devout humanitarian, Lown applied principles of peace and kindness to his work as a world-renowned cardiologist and activist for nuclear disarmament. Through a gift of $273,000 from Lown’s three children — […]
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Thanks to private funding and the passage of bipartisan legislation, thousands more Maine students will benefit from overnight outdoor educational experiences in the 2025-26 school year Thousands of Maine students will participate in transformative overnight outdoor educational experiences in the coming school year — at no cost to their districts. Maine Outdoor School for All […]
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The News York Times shared a data visualization from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer that showed warmer-than-usual forecast temperatures across Canada.
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The Bangor Daily News featured contributions from the University of Maine, including its programs, faculty and alumni, toward the state’s aquaculture industry in four stories included in the Aquaculture 2025 special section. One story looked back at the history of the industry in Maine; another, courtesy of the Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center, focused on an […]
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Denys Romashchin, an undergraduate business student at the University of Maine who is originally from Ukraine, was featured in a segment of “Maine Calling,” a show produced by Maine Public, to talk about the Ukrainian community in the state.
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More than 10 media outlets across Maine, including the Bangor Daily News, Maine Public, News Center Maine, the Portland Press Herald and WMTW (ABC 8 in Portland), shared news from University of Maine researchers that confirmed detection of the Asian longhorned tick in the state for the first time. The tick, identified through UMaine Cooperative […]
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