The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk by Jessica Scott of the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future on efforts to move Maine toward climate and environmental justice 3–4 p.m. on Monday, March 21. The Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the […]
Read more
The Maine Science Festival (MSF) will come back after two years away due to the pandemic, from March 16–20. It is a program of the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor and will include more than 70 events and activities, many of which will feature University of Maine scientists. All events, except for the headliner performance, […]
Read more
Last fall, Laura Rickard, University of Maine associate professor of communication and a Mitchell Center faculty fellow, led risk communication training for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The training, largely for new DEP staff who are or will be testing for PFAS at people’s homes and on their property, focused on effective ways […]
Read more
Four faculty-led innovation teams have been selected to participate in the fifth cohort of the University of Maine’s Maine Innovation Research and Technology Accelerator (MIRTA) program. The 2022 projects will develop research innovations in accessibility education, aquaculture, computer-aided breast cancer detection and marine sciences. MIRTA, coordinated by UMaine’s Foster Center for Innovation, assists teams from […]
Read more
The Center for Research on Sustainable Forests (CRSF) and Forest Stewards Guild hosted the third installment in their Maine Forest Climate Change webinar series. Over 80 attendees joined the Feb. 23 webinar about Maine’s coastal spruce-fir forest and biohabitat corridors, while 15 individuals participated in the associated field tour on Feb. 24. The webinar recording […]
Read more
The University of Maine Outdoor Leadership program and Career Center are sponsoring a job fair and panel discussions for students interested in careers in the outdoors on Tuesday, March 1 at the Memorial Union. Maine’s outdoor industries generate about $3 billion in economic activity, according to the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis. Created in 2019, UMaine’s […]
Read more
In an article about Orono trying to take advantage of a short window to make a dent in the browntail moths’ population before the caterpillars start coming out of their nests as the weather warms, the Bangor Daily News cited newly published research by a team from the University of Maine and the state Department […]
Read more
The Bangor Daily News, Associated Press and New York Post reported about University of Maine research that shows browntail moth outbreaks will worsen with warming weather. Eleanor Groden, a UMaine professor emerita of entomology and the principal investigator on the study, said, “These are important studies, as our current warming climate trends suggest that we […]
Read more
CentralMaine.com shared information about Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine talks on how the Island Institute collaborates with coastal communities to build resilience, 3 p.m. Feb. 28. Learn more on the program webpage.
Read more
News Center Maine reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab’s 2021 Surveillance Program data. The report featured Griffin Dill, the Tick Lab coordinator, who said that editing genes in ticks “really kind of opens up new avenues for research on their physiology and [the] way they interact with the pathogens they become infected […]
Read more