12+ hour, 22+ min ago  (1010+ words) Director of the Versant Power Astronomy Center, University of Maine As humans, we live out our lives on a planet that is constantly sweeping through a cosmic ocean littered with ancient debris from the formation of the solar system. For…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (492+ words) Imagine a small boat navigating a course on its own, avoiding obstacles, completing tasks and making real-time decisions without human control. Creating one is the challenge behind the Robo Boat, an international competition pushing students to design and build an…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (390+ words) The project came about in part from Towne's love of libraries, working in classrooms and her own experience growing up in Freeport, Maine. During her first year at UMaine, Hunter spent a week in a Portland classroom and was working…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (1330+ words) The first time University of Maine women's soccer coach Scott Atherley watched Addison La Bonte compete, she wasn't playing soccer. She was diving across a basketball court. Atherley had traveled to the Cumberland County Civic Center during La Bonte's senior…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (281+ words) Battling polar winds, rough seas and sea ice, the University of Maine's Emmanuel Boss and his colleagues sailed the Southern Ocean to study plankton, microscopic organisms that form the foundation of marine food webs." These microorganisms, particularly the plant-like phytoplankton,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (568+ words) Three couples were awarded the 2026 Stillwater Society Award, one of the institution's highest honors for philanthropic leadership and service. This year's recipients are J. Daniel Lafayette III and Carla Joy Lafayette; Raymond A. Jean '65 and Louise C. Jean; and Bion A. Foster '68, '70 G and…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (64+ words) University of Maine, Orono Gross Square Feet: N/A Project / Design Start Date: Summer 2025 Construction Start: Winter 2025 Occupancy Date: Fall 2026 Project Architect: Du Bois & King, Inc. Project Manager: Logan Doucette, UMS CPPM Campus Facilities Management Lead: Josh Burke, Associate Director…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago  (489+ words) With the press of a button, Theodore Donovan, 18, sent a 14-inch-long 3 D printed rocket flying nearly 300 feet across Lengyel Field during a May 15 competition at the University of Maine. But for Donovan and dozens of other Maine high school students,…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (686+ words) Allison Woodard has always loved teaching literacy, and previously spent several years mentoring other teachers on strategies that lead to improvements in students" reading and writing as a literacy coach in Regional School Unit (RSU) 26, the school district serving Orono....

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (529+ words) U. S. consumers are willing to pay more for lobster harvested using ropeless fishing technology designed to reduce whale entanglement risks, according to new University of Maine research. A study led by Qiujie "Angie" Zheng, associate professor of business analytics in the…...