Many people don’t realize it, but Maine’s Public Universities are making a big impact across the state. Here are just a few of the ways each campus is making strides in business, in the community, and through innovation.
Biddeford-based GWI Inc. plans to build an ultra-high-speed Internet network surrounding the University of Maine campus to boost economic development. Part of the national Gig.U initiative, the network will be one of the fastest business-residential networks in the country.
Read MorePORTLAND — Bollywood dancing, Iranian folk dancers and a dance light show inspired by the indigenous Maori culture of New Zealand provided a festive atmosphere as more than 100 students from across the world celebrated their academic achievements.
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ORONO, Maine — Numerous high and middle school students descended on the University of Maine campus Friday for the fourth annual Maine Wind Blade Challenge and the DeepCwind Consortium’s Windstorm Challenge.
Students set up a model offshore wind turbine in a pool as part of UMaine's Windstorm challenge 2012
The University of Southern Maine is helping Maine adults complete their college degrees with four new, fully online programs available for the fall 2012 semester.
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MACHIAS, Maine – The University of Maine at Machias has received a $30,000 grant from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation to add a high-speed bindery to its professional Book Arts Studio. The studio is home to the UMM Press and serves as the printing facility for students in the English and Book Arts degree program.
Read MoreThe University of Maine System Board of Trustees recently approved a new tourism and hospitality program at the University of Southern Maine.
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FARMINGTON, ME (April 6, 2012)—Longfellow Mountains, a University of Maine at Farmington workshop for young writers, will return for its third year Sunday, July 15 through Saturday, July 21, 2012, on the UMF campus.
Read MoreOrono, Maine, April 12, 2012 – With 10Green, a new, interactive web tool (10Green.org) you can get a comprehensive assessment of the health of your local environment with just a few keystrokes. Just enter your zip code or the name of your community and 10Green gives you the health of your location on a simple 0 to 10 scale. This is the first time such a consumer-friendly environmental health tool has been made available.
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FARMINGTON, ME (April 11, 2012)—Chris Brinegar, adjunct associate professor of biology at the University of Maine at Farmington, has been awarded a $14,266 grant by the Save the Redwoods League, a San Francisco-based conservation organization, to fund a genetics project on two plant species in the coast redwood forests.
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High school students from throughout Washington County were invited to bring and share their work, including two- and three-dimensional art, music, theatre, and creative writing performances, speeches, skits, raps, dances, videos, and more. UMM faculty and students organized activities, workshops, and performances for the event, including the ever-popular “Jam in the Dark.”
Read MoreThe University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation is seeking motivated, innovative Maine college students and Maine companies who want to make a difference for Maine through a new internship program supported by the
Blackstone Charitable Foundation.
The Bicycle Coalition of Maine will hold the Great Maine Bike Swap on Sunday, April 29 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the University of Southern Maine’s Sullivan Gym in Portland.
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MACHIAS — Jobs await students enrolled in the GIS programs at the University of Maine at Machias.
Read MoreThe University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole will offer a Natural Science Illustration Workshop July 16-20. The workshop is open to anyone who wants to illustrate a natural history journal with sketches or watercolor, hone observational skills and artistic talents to create scientifically accurate drawings, or bring art and science into the classroom.
Read MoreApplications are now being accepted for the University of Maine’s Dive In 2012, a program for college-bound high school students interested in pursuing a career in the marine sciences.
Read MoreThe University of Maine at Fort Kent has achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) for its $1.4 million renovation of Powell Hall; a project incorporating many energy-savings components into the 47-year-old former dormitory.
Read MoreUniversity of Maine at Farmington announces that it will begin offering classes at Southern Maine Community College in UMF’s Early Childhood Education Off-Campus Bachelor’s Degree Program in fall 2012.
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Criminal Justice students with the University of Maine at Presque Isle recently completed a study for the Presque Isle Police Department on theft from motor vehicles, partnering with municipal officials to better serve the community.
Read MoreThe state’s economy could grow by 15,000 jobs during the next 20 years if Mainers embrace offshore wind projects, a University of Maine professor said Sunday.
Read MoreIn a first for New England, the University of Maine at Augusta plans to offer a bachelor of architecture degree starting in 2013.
Read MoreFunding has been hard to come by in recent years for offshore weather buoys in the Gulf of Maine, but two Maine organizations will be among several sharing nearly $1.8 million in federal funds to help keep the system operating.
Read MoreAlmost one-fifth of the household waste that Mainers discard could be recycled. That’s one of the early findings of a statewide study by the University of Maine. The study also suggests that if food and certain paper waste were composted, the amount of garbage headed to the landfill or incinerator could be cut by roughly half.
Read MoreThe local high school and university expect to see their fuel costs lowered by an estimated 80 percent after installing a biomass heating system with the help of a $2.6 million federal grant announced Friday.
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A new process developed at the University of Maine for creating biofuel from wood wastes won’t instantly solve the world’s energy crisis, according to a researcher behind the project.
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A New York foundation will launch today a $3 million fund to help Maine’s fledgling entrepreneurial community create more innovative companies and jobs. The money will underwrite an initiative called Blackstone Accelerates Growth, part of a five-year, $50 million, multistate effort by Blackstone Charitable Foundation, an arm of the equity firm Blackstone Group LP, to promote entrepreneurship and job creation.
Read MoreThe University of Maine at Augusta (UMA) is hosting the Forum on the Future, a yearlong public policy speaker series on a variety of topics facing Maine.
Read MoreBob Farris walked around the University of Maine at Machias’ campus Wednesday afternoon with a clipboard tucked under his arm and a forward-thinking attitude. He was talking energy: energy savings, energy use reduction, and energy reuse.
Read MoreThe University of Maine at Presque Isle’s Geospatial Information Technology Center has received a grant totaling $29,000 from the Quimby Family Foundation to complete non-motorized trail mapping efforts in the region using GIS and GPS technology.
Read MoreClasses at the University of Maine at Fort Kent won’t begin until next week, but twenty high school juniors already are earning college credit at the University thanks to a collaborative effort between UMFK and the local school administrative district.
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The University of Maine at Machias has been awarded more than $900,000 in grant funding from the National Center for Research Resources, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Read MoreThe University of Maine at Fort Kent (UMFK) and Acadia Federal Credit Union (AFCU) today announced a partnership that will provide financial literacy education to students and parents throughout the St. John Valley.
Read MoreThe University of Maine at Fort Kent has been awarded a grant of $500,000 by the state Department of Conservation with federal stimulus funds to convert its largest residence hall (The Lodge), and its athletics complex (Sports Center) to a biomass heating system.
Read MoreThe shortage of students prepared for the emerging job market in health information technology has inspired University of Maine at Farmington’s most recent new program of study with a concentration in health information systems.
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