Set to open in 2025, the Sustainable Aquaculture Workforce Innovation Center in Orono will prepare students for careers in the rapidly growing aquaculture industry.
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Browntail moth caterpillars may be facing ‘zombie’ apocalypse in Maine
A fungus that turns the rash-causing pests into the ‘crawling dead’ may lead to a sharp drop in browntail populations this year, scientists say.
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UMaine student hit by university vehicle on Orono campus
The student was hit Friday morning on Long Road, school officials said.
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UMaine men’s basketball team will face Duke in Cooper Flagg’s collegiate debut
The Blue Devils will greet the Black Bears on Nov. 4 at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
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UMaine team prepares to document total eclipse from the moon’s point of view
A video feed from a balloon drifting 90,000 feet above Maine will show the shadow pass over Earth as if seeing the eclipse from the vantage point of the moon.
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Freeport appoints new town manager
The Freeport Town Council on Tuesday hired Sophia L. Wilson as the town’s new manager. Wilson has been Orono’s town manager for the past 12 years and is expected to transition to Freeport in December. Prior to her time in Orono, she worked as Brownfield’s manager, a job she started in 2000. Wilson, whose yearly […]
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UMaine professor’s computer model tells the story of Earth’s changing climate
Recent news coverage of the planet’s record-breaking heat wave relied on the online climate visualization tool developed Sean Birkel, who is also the state climatologist.
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As tech businesses shrink, Tyler Technologies says it will keep growing in Maine
The Texas firm, which has deep Maine ties, broke ground this week on a new office building in Orono.
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UMaine Orono dips into reserves amid declining enrollment
The UMaine System board allows the state’s flagship university to pull $5.7 million from savings to help close a $17 million budget gap.
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UMaine System students who have not received COVID boosters will be tested weekly
The new COVID protocol requirement, announced Monday, will take effect when classes resume Jan. 18.