The University of Maine’s expansion of academic offerings and pathways to success in school and the workforce has resulted in more Mainers choosing to enroll at UMaine this semester than in spring 2024. In-state enrollment for the spring 2025 semester, which includes new and returning undergraduate and graduate students from Maine, increased by 4.6% from […]
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Cosmos reported that geologists at the University of Maine collaborated with other researchers studying the migrations of southern elephant seals and its impact on ecosystem change.
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University of Maine faculty and students will present at several events during the Maine Science Festival, a program of the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor that will include more than 70 events and activities from March 18-23. The five-day celebration will showcase science and technology happening in Maine in the format of an arts or […]
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Alongside a lot of flour and sugar, cooking skills, food science knowledge, ingenuity and market acumen were the key ingredients for a fall course at the University of Maine in which students created innovative grab-and-go desserts. The graduate-level Food Product Development, taught by professor Denise Skonberg, required students to undergo several rounds of ideation, production […]
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Eos featured University of Maine Climate Change Institute Associate Director Jasmine Saros to discuss a recent study she led which found that after two months of record heat and precipitation in fall 2022, an estimated 7,500 lakes in Greenland turned brown, began emitting carbon and decreased in water quality “You can actually see more heat […]
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News Center Maine spoke Jonathan Rubin, director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, about new tariffs on energy imports from Canada and Mexico. “It’s really hard to know what this means in the long term, because we don’t really know how long these tariffs are going to last. As you may recall, they were […]
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News Center Maine highlighted research from the University of Maine regarding the feelings of Maine residents about daylight savings. The study from UMaine showed that 72% of respondents were in favor of removing daylight savings.
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In an article titled “Rising Temperatures Are Scrambling the Base of the Ocean Food Web,” Jeffrey Runge, a zooplankton ecologist who recently retired as a professor from the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, spoke with The New York Times about Calanus finmarchicus, a type of zooplankton. You can think of Calanus as “little […]
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WABI (Channel 5 in Bangor) highlighted the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce program through the University of Maine School of Nursing. The program helps fund the education of family nurse practitioners and is aimed at addressing gaps in rural healthcare.
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New Hampshire Public Radio interviewed Angela Mech, assistant professor of forest entomology at the University of Maine, on browntail moths. “It’s a very short window. Once the outbreak ends, there isn’t going to be enough browntail to really research for another 10 to 15 years. So we’re trying to cram in as many research projects […]
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