Aquaculture and Marine Sciences Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, two USM graduate students, Heather Anne Wright and Kate Callnan, spent a month off the Uruguay coast conducting research on algae blooms with Dr. William Balch, a chief scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in West Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
Biotechnology With one of the few transmission electron microscopy (TEM) laboratories in Maine, USM’s bioscience research staff are providing the region's burgeoning biotech industry with a valuable resource for commercial ventures.
Information Technology USM graduate student Brent Atkinson is part of an international team of faculty, programmers, and health officials who have been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to determine if mobile phones can improve health services in developing countries.