“The Greater Good,” the podcast series of the University of Maine Graduate and Professional Center, has posted the first of a two-part series on a summer 2019 trip to Greenland by Paul Mayewski of the UMaine Climate Change Institute, Firooza Pavri of the University of Southern Maine Muskie School of Public Service and Charles Norchi […]
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Contributions made by Gordon Hamilton and Leigh Stearns are included in Science magazine’s article “Greenland’s Dying Ice,” which features Fiamma Straneo’s research on the Helheim Glacier. Hamilton, an associate research professor at the Climate Change Institute, died in 2016 conducting research in Antarctica. Stearns, an associate professor at the University of Kansas, earned her doctorate […]
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Six doctoral students in the University of Maine Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering make up the first cohort supported by a $1.07 million National Institutes of Health’s Institutional Research Training Grant (T32). Awardees receive fellowships that include a stipend, tuition, university fees, health insurance coverage, as well as an allowance for travel and […]
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Dominic Winski helped secure the deepest and oldest ice core at the South Pole in order to understand past variations in the Earth’s climate. The oldest ice in the 5,745-foot-long (more than a mile deep) core is 54,302 years old, plus or minus 519 years, says the research assistant professor at the University of Maine […]
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Registration begins Oct. 28 for University of Maine’s Winter Session that runs Dec. 27, 2019 through Jan. 16, 2020. The more than 40 online courses include several general education requirements, as well as some upper-level courses. Winter Session courses are intensive in nature, with students earning three credits in three weeks. For more information, including […]
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The Cohen Institute for Leadership and Public Service and the School of Policy and International Affairs will host the second biennial conference, “Can We Live with a Nuclear North Korea?” at the University of Maine on Oct. 17 and 18. The conference in the McIntire Room of Buchanan Alumni House will explore the implications of […]
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WVII (Channel 7) spoke with Allison Gardner, assistant professor of arthropod vector biology at the University of Maine, and Sara McBride, a master’s student in ecology and environmental sciences at UMaine, for a report about their research on ticks in Acadia National Park. “Visitors were reporting that one of the things they’re most concerned about […]
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“My roots are, and will always remain, in the shadow of Katahdin, in Millinocket,” says Andrea Steward. And this summer she had the chance to expand on those roots with global outreach through a social work practicum with Democracy International in Bethesda, Maryland before graduating in August with a master’s degree in social work. Democracy […]
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A new Maine Medical Arts & Humanities in Medicine Fellowship is being offered through a collaboration between the University of Maine and Northern Light Health. Doctors who complete their residency requirements at Northern Light Family Medicine and Residency in Bangor will have the opportunity to obtain a certificate of advanced learning from UMaine through the year-long fellowship. […]
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The University of Maine Graduate School will hold its annual open house 3:30–6 p.m. Oct. 3 in Stodder Hall. Prospective students are invited to meet the graduate academic community and learn about the available programs. Knowledgeable staff and faculty members will be on-site to answer questions and address concerns about enrolling in a graduate program. […]
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