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Can Machine Learning Standardize Rock Climbing Route Difficulty?

A new study from Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø explores how integrating machine and deep learning techniques can create a standardized system for evaluating rock climbing routes to provide a difficulty grading scale that promotes inclusivity, accuracy and accessibility for all experience levels. Read More

Recent Stories

  • Student runner
    - Sneakers to Asphalt
    Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø students, grads and faculty members will contribute to the chorus of footfalls on Monday during the 119th running of the Boston Marathon. We asked a handful of them why they... Read More
  • R.J. Harris '14 and Devontae Lefleur
    - MVP Mentor
    Of all the awards and accolades Wildcat wide receiver R.J. Harris ’14 amassed over the course of the football team’s remarkable fall, one that stands out might be surprising: a... Read More
  • Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Football
    - Awards Season
    Ìý Just how many accolades can one team bring home? At the end of another record-making season, the football team was named the ECAC Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Team... Read More
  • X-ray of two football player brains
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  • Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Women's Volleyball
    - Sports Roundup: Winter 2015
    Ìý Elinor Purrier ’17 just can’t stop winning. The speedy sophomore— the first Wildcat athlete to be named a National Athlete of the Week by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross... Read More
  • Need More Cowbell? Meet the Cat Pack Captains
    - Need More Cowbell? Meet the Cat Pack Captains
    You’ve seen them in the Dungeon. You’ve heard the tut-tut-tut of their cowbell in Lundholm and at the Whit. Now go behind the scenes with the proudest, rowdiest, most-whiskered... Read More
  • Synchronized skating team on ice
    - Skating in Synch
    Ìý Ìý While other students were connecting with friends and catching up on sleep during break, members of the Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø synchronized skating team were on campus, and on the ice. “The team... Read More
  • Veterans Honored at Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø-UMaine Men's Hockey Game
    - Veterans Honored at Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø-UMaine Men's Hockey Game
    Before they took the ice recently, the Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø and UMaine men’s hockey teams visited with Medal of Honor recipient and Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Manchester alumnus Ryan Pitts and Travis Mills, a quadruple... Read More
  • Ryan Pitts, Travis Mills, Wild-Ecat, and supporters on ice.
    - On Ice, Honoring Vets
    Special Guests Before they took the ice this past weekend, the Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø and UMaine men’s hockey teams visited with Medal of Honor recipient and Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Manchester alumnus Ryan Pitts and... Read More
  • student in marching band; Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø spelled out by marching band on football field.
    - Marching On
    It’s a cold November Saturday morning and out on the Cowell Stadium field, the Wildcat Marching Band has its hands full. Today, the band’s ranks have swelled to include high... Read More