In an article about Maine beekeepers training the next generation, News Center Maine interviewed David Fiacco, who works with students at The University of Maine’s beekeeping club, the Black Bear Beekeepers. “We just want to introduce them to that, and if they have a real interest in beekeeping, we can get them pretty deeply involved […]
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Pallet-sized mats of wild blueberry thatch took a 52-mile trip from Deblois to the University of Maine’s Wyman’s Wild Blueberry Research and Innovation Center in Old Town April 12 for planting. The milestone in the center’s development follows years of preparations and will create multidisciplinary research opportunities for faculty and students. Maine’s state fruit is […]
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Project Upland Magazine featured the research of Erik Blomberg, associate professor of wildlife population ecology, in an article about aging and sexing woodcocks.
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a study led by Zhao Xuan, an assistant professor of neurobiology at the University of Maine, showing how proteins interact in neurons to clear out damaged and abnormal components in the brain.
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Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society, has awarded graduate research grants to three University of Maine students. Emma Erwin, a Ph.D. student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences; Elizabeth Leclerc, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. student with the Department of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute; and Dylan […]
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Kit Hamley, Ph.D. candidate in the School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute (CCI) at the University of Maine, has been awarded an $25,000 American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. This fellowship will support Hamley for 2023–24 as she completes her dissertation, which leverages new tools to understand human […]
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French media outlets, including La Provence, Ouest-France, Le Télégramme, Paris Match, France 24, Les Echos, and Le Figaro, and the Italian media outlet The Map Report reported on the latest Tara Ocean Expedition, Tara-Europa, which recently left the port of Lorient for a pan-European study of land-ocean interaction. Lee Karp-Boss and Emmanuel Boss, professors at […]
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A new study led by Zhao Xuan, an assistant professor of neurobiology at the University of Maine, shows how proteins interact in neurons to clear out damaged and abnormal components in the brain. Autophagy is the process by which a cell breaks down and destroys old, damaged or abnormal proteins and other substances in its […]
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Greg LeClair, graduate student at the University of Maine, spoke to the Mount Desert Islander about the Maine Big Night, which he started in 2018 to help amphibians safely cross roads during their spring migration to breed. “We actually have evidence now that there’s frog and salamander populations here in Maine on either side of […]
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Nip Impressions profiled Alia Parsons, a University of Maine senior in chemical engineering with a minor in business administration and a concentration in pulp and paper management, about her college experience and support from with the University of Maine Pulp and Paper Foundation, which provides scholarships to engineering and forestry students pursuing careers in the […]
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