Vision
Make Maine a national leader in transformative environmental genetic research, innovation, outreach, and training for the sustainability and wellbeing of natural and human ecosystems and the people that depend on them.
Mission
Foster broad-based environmental genetics collaborations, partnerships, and infrastructure that contribute to the sustainability of current and future natural resource industries and agriculture, improve human health and wellbeing, and prepare a technologically skilled workforce.
Message from the Director
Welcome to the website of the Maine Center for Genetics and the Environment, or MCGE as we often call it. The Maine Center for Genetics in the Environment (MCGE) was formed in 2019 as a sustainability element of the NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 Maine-eDNA Program (NSF #OIA-1849227). The center was founded around a vision to make Maine a national leader in transformative environmental genetic research, innovation, outreach, and training for the sustainability and wellbeing of natural and human ecosystems and the people that depend on them. I like to say that environmental genetics is a scientific bridge…
Maine Research News
- From hospital unit closures and job vacancies to an aging workforce, Maine is facing several challenges in sustaining its healthcare industry. Yet there are still […]
- On the afternoon of June 19, University of Maine senior Eily Buchanan spotted something peculiar through the narrow window of a wooden shelter while quietly […]
- Down East Magazine interviewed Jay Wason, associate professor in the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources, and Aaron Weiskittel, director of the UMaine’s Center […]
- The U.S. Geological Survey recently presented the 2025 Excellence in Science award to the Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Maine. […]
- University of Maine researchers are studying whether listening to music or learning to play an instrument could help older adults maintain cognitive function as they […]
- Susanne Lee, Faculty Fellow at the University of Maine Center for Sustainability Solutions and program lead for Food Rescue MAINE, spoke with News Center Maine, […]
- John Daigle, professor of forest recreation management at the University of Maine, co-authored the first paper in a series designed to help communities nationwide prepare […]
- WMTW and WABI 5 reported on researchers at the University of Maine making golf tees from discarded lobster shells. “I got a grant from Sea […]
