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2025 Francis Crowe Induction Honors graduates and distinguished engineers

UMaine Offers Immersive Engineering and Computing Programs for K-12

The future is engineered, coded, and designed – and UMaine is your launchpad! We’re thrilled to announce our 2025 lineup of K-12 summer programs, specifically crafted to ignite a passion for engineering and computing in young minds. Get ready for hands-on experiences that go beyond the classroom, fostering creativity, problem-solving skills, and a deep understanding […]

Seeking CS or New Media Undergrad for Employment with Maine eDNA

We are seeking an undergraduate student employee to join the Maine-eDNA team, a large NSF EPSCoR funded project (https://umaine.edu/edna/). One goal of the project is to build an integrated data repository of environmental DNA (eDNA), which is DNA obtained from fresh and marine water samples and subjected to high throughput sequencing. eDNA samples need to […]

Newspaper, TV stories feature New Media student COVID projects

Apps and games made by New Media seniors have won acclaim in newspaper and TV stories that profile how they responded to COVID-19.

New Media seniors win seven university research awards

New Media seniors have been honored with a record-setting seven university awards for 2020-2021. The creative approaches recognized by these prestigious fellowships include apps, games, and an installation designed to help students cope with the anxieties of contemporary life, especially under a global pandemic.

UMaine names 2020 valedictorian and salutatorian

April 6, 2020 Chemical engineering major Sierra Yost of Windham is the 2020 University of Maine valedictorian, and Grace Smith of Holden, a molecular and cellular biology major, is this year’s salutatorian. Both are students in the Honors College. “We congratulate Sierra and Grace on the strength, breadth and rigor of their academic achievements and overall University of Maine […]

MAINE Hello – Aug. 31! Welcome Students!

Welcome New Engineering Students! Maine Hello volunteers are ready to welcome you and to help you with your move in experience. Here is a link to information for first year students that will help answer your questions. Maine Hello is a campus-wide event wherein returning students, faculty and staff members from across the university volunteer […]

Francis Crowe Society Photos: May 2018

Graduating Senior Matthew Ireland Awarded J. Morris Weinberg Student Innovation Award

Graduating senior in Mechanical Engineering, Matthew Ireland was awarded the J. Morris Weinberg Student Innovation Ward. The purpose of this award is to encourage the efforts and achievements of outstanding science student undergraduates who undertake novel and entrepreneurial initiatives in a multidisciplinary environment. Ireland was nominated for the award by Dr. Habib Dagher, Dr. Masoud Rais-Rohani, and James Anderson. […]

Peng Awarded Prestigious 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Yi Peng, a graduate student in Civil Engineering who conducts research at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, has received a 2018 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The Fellowship provides a three-year annual stipend and tuition assistance. Peng, from Old Town, Maine, is among the 2,000 Fellows selected from more than 12,000 applicants. Peng […]