If you want to know how the fishing is, ask a person who fishes. That’s the gist of a University of Maine study of cooperative research efforts in the nation’s Illex squid fishery.
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University of Maine researchers have published a paper in which they demonstrate that the blue mussel can eat larvae of the sea louse, a parasitic pest that has recently made a comeback on fish farms, decimating populations of farmed finfish.
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A 5K race and family fun walk Sunday, May 1 at the University of Maine is one of several fundraising activities two students have planned to raise money for children at a Ugandan orphanage.
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NORTHPORT — The Sixth Annual University of Maine Geriatric Colloquium planned Monday, May 2 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Point Lookout Resort and Conference Center in Northport will explore “Substance Abuse in Older Adults: An Invisible Epidemic.”
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University of Maine business and economics student Rachel Hathaway, who spent a summer internship in 2009 helping impoverished people in Bangladesh access small business loans, will return to the country to continue her work this summer and in 2012 as a Fulbright Scholar.
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David Slagger, a UMaine student and member of the Houlton Band of Maliseets, will present a Native American drum-making workshop Saturday, April 30 at the Hirundo Wildlife Refuge in Alton.
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The Kandy Kids, a team of seven Brewer fifth graders, will visit with researchers at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, Thursday, April 28, from 3:45 – 4:30. They will work with UMaine engineers to testing a structure they built on the way to winning the State of Maine Destination Imagination Challenge.
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Five University of Maine students participated in a recent launch process as a rocket loaded with wireless sensors the students developed in a UMaine lab blasted off in California’s Mojave Desert. The students, working under UMaine electrical and computer engineering Associate Professor Ali Abedi, collaborated on the NASA-funded project with faculty and student researchers at […]
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At its April 20 awards ceremony, UMaine’s College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture announced its annual recognition of students, faculty and others. Online photos and writeups describe the award winners and their accomplishments. Awards include the 2011 Agriculture Award, the G. Peirce and Florence Pitts-Webber Award for Outstanding Research in Forest Resources, the NSFA […]
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ORONO — Six teams of UMaine mechanical engineering technology (MET) students will square off for competition Wednesday, April 27, to see which of six distinctive pill-crushing devices work best, as part of an annual Senior Design Competition.
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