Lauren Ross’s research on the physics of estuaries has brought her all over the world, from France to Frenchman Bay along Mount Desert Island. With her recently-awarded Fulbright, Ross will lead a team of scientists to Chile to look at these transition points between freshwater rivers and the salty sea in a place where so […]
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The Fiske Guide To Colleges 2024 named the University of Maine one of the “best and most interesting” four-year higher education institutions in America. The publication, authored by former New York Times education editor Edward Fiske and updated annually for 40 years, spotlights more than 300 of its top schools in the U.S., Canada, Great […]
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As an aspiring high school teacher, Laura Curioli, a University of Maine master’s student in history, wants to educate future students about the Constitution so they can learn their rights and become effective voters and leaders. “A lot of people underestimate high schoolers, in my opinion,” she says. “They also fail to remember that these […]
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The Bangor Daily News noted that the University of Maine Graduate School is celebrating 100 years of advanced training and workforce development in the state and beyond on Thursday, June 29, the same day the first Graduate Faculty meeting took place in 1923.
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The University of Maine Graduate School is celebrating 100 years of advanced training and workforce development in the state and beyond on June 29, the same day the first Graduate Faculty meeting took place in 1923. While the Graduate School was formed in 1923, UMaine has actually granted graduate degrees since 1881, when the Maine […]
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Elisa Schine, a graduate student in forestry at the University of Maine, spoke to Northern Woodlands about working in forestry professions as a woman. Although forestry has become much more inclusive of women during the past several decades, it remains a majority male profession. “There’s this incredible resource of potential employees, potential collaborators who are […]
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The Lincoln County News, Mount Desert Islander, Courier-Gazette and The Ellsworth American highlighted new research about how climate change affects lobster ecology led by University of Maine graduate students Alex Ascher and Evelyn Layland.
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New information is emerging on how climate change is impacting American lobster populations and their connections to other species in the marine food web in the earliest stages of their life cycle. New research conducted by two graduate students at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center (DMC) has revealed more information about how these […]
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The University of Maine Institute of Medicine has awarded summer fellowships to nine graduate students to support their research in health science and biomedicine. The fellowships, which include up to $6,000 for a stipend, one graduate credit and health insurance, will allow graduate students to conduct their research full time during the summer months alongside […]
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Rivers, lakes and oceans worldwide are home to trillions of pieces of plastic pollution that are smaller than five millimeters in length, known as microplastics, and their size allows them to easily enter humans and animals. Some can adsorb and transport other harmful toxicants that pollute waterways, including certain types of a more recently discovered […]
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