In an attempt to improve how amphibians are monitored, University of Maine researchers evaluated a waistband for attaching external radio transmitters to frogs and toads. Radio telemetry provides fine-scale temporal and spatial information about an animal’s movements and habitat use; however, its use for tracking amphibians has been restricted by transmitter mass and lack of […]
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Popular Science published an article on Jesica Waller, a University of Maine master’s student in marine biology, and her winning photograph of a baby lobster. Over the summer, Waller raised thousands of lobsters in the lab to see how different climate change scenarios alter their development, according to the article. Her image of a live […]
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Several media outlets, including The Washington Post, New York Post, The Telegraph and Tech Times reported on a new study by researchers at the University of South Australia, University of Maine and Luxembourg Institute of Health that found chocolate intake is associated with better cognitive function. Merrill “Pete” Elias, a UMaine professor of psychology and […]
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The Ellsworth American, Saving Seafood and Boothbay Register reported the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) has hired a University of Maine Ph.D. student in marine biology as a new scientist to lead its lobster sampling program. Katherine Thompson will be responsible for the coordination, implementation and participation in the lobster sea sampling program in […]
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Two University of Maine student organizations have partnered to organize the inaugural Black Bear Leadership Summit, designed to help current students develop the skills and perspectives needed to be successful leaders on campus and later in life. The event, to be held Friday, Feb. 26 at the Wells Conference Center, will feature workshops and presentations […]
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The Maine Business School at the University of Maine has earned an accreditation extension by the world’s most prestigious international accrediting institution for business programs, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Only about 5 percent of the world’s more than 15,000 business schools are accredited by AACSB International. The renewed five-year accreditation […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported the University of Maine will be one of 37 U.S. academic institutions to host emerging leaders from sub-Saharan Africa scheduled to visit the United States this summer under the Mandela Washington Fellowship. In mid-June, 25 people ages 25–35 will come to UMaine for a six-week academic and leadership institute meant […]
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The University of Maine has been selected as one of 37 institutions nationwide as partners with the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Beginning in mid-June, UMaine will host 25 emerging public management leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa for a six-week academic and leadership institute, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State. The Mandela Washington […]
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The University of Maine Intermedia MFA program is accepting applications until Feb. 28 for the fall 2016 semester. The Intermedia MFA program provides students with advanced study and practice in interdisciplinary art. It is a studio-centered creative interdisciplinary program committed to research, experimental technological production, a well as the individually guided development and production of […]
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Ewa Kleczyk, executive director of commercial effectiveness analytics for Symphony Health Solutions and a University of Maine alumna, credits her economics degrees and time at UMaine with helping her pursue a career in the pharmaceutical industry. “I think the small classes and the willingness of professors to truly coach and mentor us was one of […]
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