Outreach

Eos highlights Laatsch’s team preparing for total solar eclipse

Eos highlighted Shawn Laatsch, director of the Versant Power Astronomy Center at the University of Maine, participating in the total solar eclipse by helping coordinate the Citizen Continental America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) 2024 project. The effort, which builds on a similar project conducted around the 2017 total solar eclipse, is looking to place roughly 35 […]

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Sentry promotes Maine Big Night

The South Portland Sentry interviewed Greg LeClair, University of Maine Ph.D. student and founder of Maine Big Night, regarding the impact of the event. Maine Big Night is a nonprofit community science project established to help save amphibians from getting hit by cars on roads. It is a community-driven effort, spearheaded by volunteers dedicated to […]

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University of Maine System to accelerate workforce and small business development with federal funding secured by Sens. Collins and King

One-time Congressionally Directed Spending awards will be invested statewide in public university infrastructure and programming that directly address critical workforce shortages in the state and advance economic and community growth ORONO, Maine — Funding in the federal budget package passed this weekend will enable the University of Maine System (UMS) to further strengthen and grow […]

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Office of Diversity and Inclusion celebrating Pride Week through March 30

The University of Maine Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) is celebrating Pride Week through March 30.  On Monday, March 25, ODI kicked off the celebration at 10 a.m. by raising the pride flag in the Memorial Union atrium with two additional events scheduled in the afternoon and evening, including a Pride Climb at Maine […]

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What to expect for April 8 solar eclipse viewed from Orono

Solar eclipse viewers watching the cosmic spectacle on April 8 from the University of Maine campus and surrounding town of Orono can expect to see the moon cover 98.9% of the sun, leaving a glowing sliver in the sky.  Orono is not located along the path of totality for the eclipse, in which the corona, […]

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New USDA PFAS research center at UMaine highlighted by E&E News, BDN

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is launching a new center for researching and finding solutions to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are found in Maine’s water and land and have been linked to liver disease and high cholesterol, at the University of Maine. E & E News by Politico and the Bangor Daily News […]

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Two faculty presenting at Maine Science Festival event featured by WFVX

WFVX (FOX 22 in Bangor) reported on the Maine Science Festival Discovery on Tap event, organized by the Maine Discovery Museum, which featured Justin Brown, laboratory research manager of VEMI Lab at UMaine, and assistant professor of spatial informatics Nimesha Ranasinghe. Brown presented on the technological power of haptics and touch. “We have touch receptors […]

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Mitchell Center to host talk on braiding Indigenous knowledge and science March 25

The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk titled “Woven Wisdoms: The new Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledge and Science” on Monday, March 25 at 3 p.m.  Indigenous Knowledge offers valuable insights into climate change as it encompasses multigenerational understandings of local ecosystems and human […]

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