Consumers are increasingly eager to eat local produce, but farm-to-table options in the cold season aren’t always easy to find in a northern state like Maine. That could change thanks to a new mobile app designed to help farmers optimize greenhouse conditions in the winter months, from a team led by New Media faculty and […]
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COVID-19 came suddenly and with a wallop, forcing classes to operate remotely, canceling sports events, and leaving campuses empty last spring. Fortunately, New Media faculty and students have already been experimenting with digital tools for collaboration, like e-portfolios, web-based F2F classes, videoconferencing and discussion platforms like Slack.
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How to Manage Your Loneliness April 20, 2020 New York Times The Cigna study indicated that 79 percent of those aged 18 to 22 considered themselves lonely. Among this group, heavy social media users were more likely to say they’re feeling lonely, Dr. Nemecek said, “so leveraging social media in the right way to make […]
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Digital Curation webinar focuses on saving the Web As more of our work and entertainment moves online, the challenge of preserving websites and social media becomes increasingly urgent. In an interactive discussion on 17 April 2020 entitled “Web Archiving for Everyone,” the latest guest speaker in UMaine’s Digital Curation program presents new tools and techniques […]
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Still Water Co-director Joline Blais was part of the team that helped organize the 2019 America East Hackathon, which focused on developing inexpensive apps and systems to sustain local farmers.
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New Media capstone students have developed capstone projects reflecting and extending a range of skills learned in the program including web and mobile app development, AR and VR applications, interactive educational video, and 3D design and printing of accessibility devices. Many of our students are working with outside clients and/or field testing new software platforms. […]
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The Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NECCDC – http://neccdl.org/neccdc) will be hosted at UMaine in Orono Maine March 20-22, 2020. Ten student teams from the Northeast will compete to test their ability to operate, secure, manage, and maintain a corporate network. A virtual qualifying round will be held in late January to determine the schools […]
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More than 250 federal and state officials, business executives, University of Maine System leaders and community members were on hand to witness the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center receive three Guinness World Records on Oct. 10 for the world’s largest prototype polymer 3D printer, largest solid 3D-printed object, and largest 3D-printed boat. The event […]
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Journal Tribune reported on a high-altitude balloon launch by students at Scarborough Middle School. The project, which gave students the chance to learn about space and the atmosphere, was carried out in collaboration with the University of Maine’s High Altitude Ballooning (HAB) program. With funding from the Maine Space Grant Consortium, the program has worked with […]
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From UMaine Today – Fall/Winter 2018 Advanced combustion Improving wireless sensor technologies in coal-based power plants is the focus of a $2.5 million grant from the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) through the Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy to the University of Maine. The UMaine project, led by Mauricio Pereira da Cunha, professor of electrical […]
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