Wired reported on a database that Michael Kinnison, a University of Maine professor of evolutionary applications, and Zach Wood, a postdoctoral research associate with the UMaine School of Biology and Ecology, helped create called Phenotypic Rates of Change Evolutionary and Ecological Database (PROCEED). According to its website, the database serves as a continuously updated repository […]
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The Register-Herald noted that Andrei Kurbatov, an associate professor with the University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, is helping plan a four-part volcano eruptions data workshop called Tephra Fusion 2022.
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University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center is recruiting student researchers to contribute to a variety of marine and environmental research projects this summer. DMC hosts 25–30 undergraduate researchers on the Walpole campus each summer to collaborate with UMaine faculty and other DMC-based researchers on projects ranging from the fundamental biology of microorganisms active in the […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has named the 2022–2024 Research Faculty Fellows. CUGR Research Faculty Fellows are a cohort of faculty members who were nominated by their respective deans and selected by the center. The program is designed to support faculty efforts toward improving undergraduate research mentoring skills, expanding curricula to […]
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The University of Maine recognized 3,102 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2021 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 2,025 are from Maine, 1,009 are from 39 other states and 68 are from 25 countries other than the U.S. To be eligible for the Full-time Dean’s List, a student […]
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National Geographic, CBS News, BBC News, CNN, The Independent, The Hill, The Weather Channel, the Daily Mail, the Bangor Daily News, Spectrum News, Live Science, the Agence France-Presse, Sky News, CNET, Pardafas, ScienceAlert, The Kathmandu Post, The Malaysian Insight, WION and Down To Earth reported on a new study from a University of Maine-led international […]
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The Conversation published an article about what scientists and historians consider to be “worst year to be alive” — 536 — that featured a 2018 study co-authored by several scientists from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, including director Paul Mayewski. They collaborated with other researchers to investigate an ice core in the Swiss-Italian […]
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Maine’s research and innovation reputation takes a monumental step forward as the state’s public research university earns an R1 Carnegie Classification, UMaine joins the ranks of the nation’s top 146 doctoral research universities engaged in “very high research activity.” Orono, Maine — The University of Maine has been designated an R1 university by the prestigious […]
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Orono, Maine — Melting and sublimation on Mount Everest’s highest glacier due to human-induced climate change have reached the point that several decades of accumulation are being lost annually now that ice has been exposed, according to a University of Maine-led international research team that analyzed data from the world’s highest ice core and highest […]
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A Sun Journal article titled “Inaugural safe syringe exchange program in Lewiston honors founder’s legacy” referenced overdose data from a May report released by the University of Maine Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center.
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