Dominique DiSpirito, a UMaine political science major and Honors College student, has been named a Truman Scholar and received a Maine Campus Compact Heart and Soul Student award for 2021. The Truman scholarship is a prestigious, merit-based award given to juniors pursuing public service careers based on their community service, leadership experience and potential, and […]
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The University of Maine System Research Reinvestment Fund (RRF) has announced the award of 14 new grants for one-year projects that will foster research and development activities in three important areas: COVID-19 Rapid Response Grants; Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Collaboratives (IURCs); and UMS Research Collaboration Networks, as reported by UMaine News. These awards continue work started by […]
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Sohaib Alahmed, a doctoral student in the UMaine Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been awarded a Chase Distinguished Research Assistantship in support of his research and professional development, as reported by UMaine News. Sohaib is researching water flow, pollution pathways, and transport in many important estuaries in Maine including Frenchman Bay, Jordan River […]
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Mitchell Center members share a passion for tackling complex sustainability problems that matter to people and communities through collaboration with diverse stakeholders and across many different areas of expertise. They come from a wide range of disciplines—from engineering and economics to fisheries and agriculture to business and communication—and take an interdisciplinary approach because that’s what’s […]
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Four Mitchell Center faculty fellows have received tenure and/or promotion this spring. This annual announcement is an important opportunity to recognize faculty members’ outstanding achievements and contributions in teaching, scholarship and research, and community engagement, says UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy in a UMaine News article. In the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture: Promoted […]
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A poster competition where some of Maine’s most innovative high school, undergraduate and graduate students presented their research was held as part of the 2021 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference on March 31 and April 1. Winning poster topics include combatting heavy metals in drinking water, lake monitoring analytics, shellfish management decision-making, and integrating local […]
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Bridie McGreavy, UMaine associate professor of environmental communication and a Mitchell Center faculty fellow, works with diverse collaborators as part of the Frenchman Bay Regional Shellfish Program to revive a local clam fishery and the mudflats on which it depends. The program brings together harvesters and representatives from seven municipalities to manage clam flats in […]
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John Daigle, UMaine professor of forest recreation management and Mitchell Center faculty fellow, was quoted in a story by the Maine Monitor on proposed changes to management tactics for the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that threatens ash trees across the country. It was first found in Maine in 2018 and has spread to […]
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Brie Berry and Cindy Isenhour were interviewed for a recent Bangor Daily News story on the increasing amount of trash showing up in goods donated to thrift stores and other reuse organizations. Brie and Cindy are members of the Mitchell Center’s Materials Management team whose work includes a focus on reuse in Maine. Brie is […]
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Mitchell Center community members actively publish their research across a diverse range of academic fields. The following is a sampling of recent publications by Mitchell Center faculty, students, and alumni. A financial benefit-cost analysis of different community solar approaches in the northeastern US Sharon J.W. Klein, Abigayle Hargreaves, Stephanie Coffey Solar Energy. Volume 213, 1 January […]
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