WABI (Channel 5) noted a University of Maine study that inspired the Waldo County Wooshed in a story about the service. The study, according to the station, investigated “into whether a firewood pantry would be as effective and helpful for Mainers in need,” as, for example, a food pantry. “Their research proved to be right. […]
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A UMaine computer scientist has been awarded a grant by Google to better understand how software developers deduce and implement privacy requirements when designing mobile phone applications. Sepideh Ghanavati, assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information Science, is the recipient of a $70,000 Google Privacy-Related Faculty Research Award for a project titled “Evaluating […]
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The University of Maine Arts Initiative (UMAI) brings together faculty, administrators, staff and students committed to the principle that the arts play an integral role in public research institutions. The primary purpose of the new initiative is to increase resources and support for the arts, reinforce their significance, and enhance visibility on campus and beyond […]
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News Center Maine highlighted a University of Maine Lobster Institute, Saint Joseph’s College and Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve initiative to improve lobster survival in the supply chain by monitoring the quality of their shipping conditions using proptype minatiture fitness trackers.
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Maine Sea Grant staff and Maine-based researchers will advance a multimillion-dollar NOAA Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative (ALI), which announced its third round of funding. Six newly funded research projects, three of which are led by Maine-based researchers, will address critical gaps in knowledge about how the American lobster (Homarus americanus) is being impacted by […]
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Improving student retention and success is a key priority at the University of Maine and University of Maine System. To support this goal, the Harold Alfond Foundation earmarked $20 million of its $240 million gift to the System for new efforts to keep students enrolled and support their academic growth. One of these new initiatives […]
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Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to ever set foot on the Falkland Islands. Findings from a new University of Maine-led study, however, suggests otherwise; that human activity on the islands predates European arrival by centuries. Kit Hamley, National […]
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Mainebiz and the Mount Desert Islander reported on an effort by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, NOAA Fisheries and the University of Maine to devise the first national benchmark survey of direct seafood marketing practices in domestic wild-caught fisheries. “Currently, there is a gap in national-level data on the domestic seafood system,” says Joshua Stoll, […]
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The Bangor Daily News noted that Ivan Fernandez was one of the recipients of the Natural Resources Council of Maine’s 2021 Conservation Leadership Awards. The award recognizes Fernandez, a University of Maine professor of soil science and forest resources, “for his leadership as one of Maine’s top climate scientists, providing policy-makers and the public with […]
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Alessandro Mereghetti has 59 time capsules from Siberia that will give insights into which animals lived there more than 20,000 years ago, as well as what plants they ate and how they interacted with the landscape over millennia. These time capsules from the Siberian permafrost are coprolites. Also called fossilized feces. “Poop is a time […]
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