The University of Maine recently hosted the first Lobstah Bowl, a VEX V5 Robotics Competition, as reported by News Center Maine. Organizer Michael Murphy highlighted that the event helps K-12 students build skills and connect with teams from as far away as Ontario, Canada. With 43 teams participating, the competition fostered collaboration and growth within […]
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In an article titled “Frenchville to hold public hearing on wastewater, stormwater projects,” The County noted University of Maine engineering students who conducted a study that highlighted vulnerabilities in the town’s stormwater systems.
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In an article titled “Development and rising seas threaten Maine’s salt marshes, a key carbon sink,” The Maine Monitor highlighted a 2003 Maine Sea Grant report which concluded that a healthy salt marsh anchors a food web “more productive than most midwestern farmland.” New England Public Media, WBUR, and Maine Public shared the article from […]
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Colin Woodard, a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist and environmentalist, will present the University of Maine’s sixth annual Libby Lecture in Natural Resource Policy at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 26, in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union. Woodard’s talk is titled “American Democracy on the Brink: How We Got Here and […]
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All across the country, fresh-faced students arrived at college in late August for the first time, toting with them backpacks, comforters, mini fridges and a wide array of hopes and dreams. While many are excited about starting classes or making new friends, some may struggle to manage a heavier homework schedule, navigate an unfamiliar network […]
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Jeffery Mills, president and CEO of the University of Maine Foundation, has announced a generous bequest of more than $7 million from Black Bear alumnus Norman B. Stetson ’62. The gift will significantly enhance the Norman B. Stetson ‘62 Scholarship to which Stetson and his wife, Dorothea, contributed consistently. Norman Stetson passed away in May […]
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In a New York Times Well column titled “End-of-Day Meltdowns Are Not Just for Kids,” Jennifer Blossom, an assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of Maine, shared advice on how to head off collapses at the end of the day.
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AP News and interviewed Andrew Goode, University of Maine postdoctoral research associate, and Richard Wahle, former director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, on lobsters with unique shell colors — like orange and blue — and their rarity. Lobsters’ color can vary due to genetic and dietary differences, and estimates about how rare certain colors are should […]
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The New York Times interviewed Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant research professor with the Climate Change Institute, on powerful storms that hit Stonington, Maine, in January. According to the article, Maine towns — which typically experience winter nor’easters with winds that blow water away from them — were caught off guard by the […]
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Maine Public featured Adam Daigneault, director of the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, on a segment of “Maine Calling” on sustainable forests.
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