NOAA Fisheries reported on new Atlantic salmon smolts research led by Dan Stich, a NOAA Fisheries biologist who conducted the study as a Ph.D. student at the University of Maine. The study, which recently appeared in the journal Marine and Coastal Fisheries, showed that even if young smolts survive the initial hazard of passing through […]
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University of Maine civil engineering doctoral student Andrew Young has been named a 2015 NASA Space Technology Research Fellow for his work on the Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) project at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center. A HIAD is a nose-mounted device on a spacecraft that slows the craft as it enters a planet’s […]
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Citing his innovative work on sustainable fisheries management at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, Joshua Stoll of Harrington, Maine, a graduate student in the School of Marine Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious yearlong fellowship from the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. Read full release.
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UMaine alumnus, inventor on 11 patents creates company to develop convenient vision aids for reading product label information.
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Students in the University of Maine’s online master of social work program will be able to meet university officials, faculty and classmates in a virtual orientation offered by UMaineOnline. On Aug. 6 and 11, MSW students will be able to take part in one of two mandatory orientation sessions. Using an avatar to represent themselves […]
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Weaving baskets while learning about brown ash identification and habitat is one of the hands-on projects at the Wabanaki Youth Science Program (WaYS) wskitkamikww, or Earth, summer camp June 22-26, at Cobscook Community Learning Center in Trescott. At the third annual WaYS summer camp, Native American youth in grades 9-12 also will use compasses and […]
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Karen Pianka, a graduate student in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, has been awarded a Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship that begins in February 2016. Named after John A. Knauss, a founder of Sea Grant, a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the fellowship matches graduate students with […]
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The Maine Edge reported on a short film written and directed by Ryan Shelley, a graduate student in the Intermedia MFA program, that will be shown as part of the Maine Shorts series at the Maine International Film Festival. “Harvey’s Dream” is a 12-minute film based on the short story by Stephen King. The film […]
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Paul Mayewski and Dan Dixon are on thin ice. Mayewski, director of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, and Dixon, a research assistant professor with CCI, are featured in the shortened version of the award-winning film “Thin Ice: The Inside Story of Climate Science,” that MPBN will broadcast at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 12. […]
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“Harvey’s Dream,” a 12-minute film written and directed by Ryan Shelley, a graduate student from Gray, Maine, in the Intermedia MFA program, will have two screenings as part of the Maine Shorts series of the Maine International Film Festival. The film, based on the short story by Stephen King, will be shown at 9:15 p.m. […]
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