The Bangor Daily News spoke with Michael Kinnison, a professor of evolutionary applications at the University of Maine, for an article about mudpuppies. Mudpuppies are the largest amphibian in Maine, capable of growing to more than 16 inches in length, and were accidentally introduced to the state in 1939. Now the colorful, bottom-dwelling, nocturnal salamanders […]
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The University of Maine Center for Research on Sustainable Forests has published the 2019–2029 Holt Research Forest Strategic Plan. The strategic plan grew out of a recent National Science Foundation Biological Field Stations and Marine Laboratories planning grant that included an October 2017 Holt Research Forest Board of Visitors review to evaluate the research, educational […]
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Contributions made by Gordon Hamilton and Leigh Stearns are included in Science magazine’s article “Greenland’s Dying Ice,” which features Fiamma Straneo’s research on the Helheim Glacier. Hamilton, an associate research professor at the Climate Change Institute, died in 2016 conducting research in Antarctica. Stearns, an associate professor at the University of Kansas, earned her doctorate […]
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The Boothbay Register advanced Liam Riordan’s bicentennial talk for the Coastal Senior College. The University of Maine history professor will discuss “Brainstorming the State Bicentennial: Past and Present Perspectives” 2–4 p.m. Oct. 29, at the Camden Public Library. His presentation will explore in words, maps and other illustrations, the long statehood process in Maine that […]
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Penobscot Bay Pilot ran a University of Maine media release about three students named 2019–2020 Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows at the University of Maine — Sarah Penney of Thomaston, Noah Loveless of Cumberland, and Matthew Ryckman of Corning, New York. Fellows are ambassadors of humanities for their peers, the campus and […]
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Six doctoral students in the University of Maine Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering make up the first cohort supported by a $1.07 million National Institutes of Health’s Institutional Research Training Grant (T32). Awardees receive fellowships that include a stipend, tuition, university fees, health insurance coverage, as well as an allowance for travel and […]
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The University of Maine Office of Research Compliance will hold a Responsible Conduct of Research training 5–8:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in Hill Auditorium, Engineering Science Research Building. The session is for undergraduate students participating in research sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and/or the U.S. Department of Agriculture—National Institute […]
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Dominic Winski helped secure the deepest and oldest ice core at the South Pole in order to understand past variations in the Earth’s climate. The oldest ice in the 5,745-foot-long (more than a mile deep) core is 54,302 years old, plus or minus 519 years, says the research assistant professor at the University of Maine […]
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Even with ocean warming, coral bleaching and an intense hurricane, local conservation actions helped a Caribbean coral reef ecosystem rebound in about a decade. Bob Steneck began studying coral reefs off the island of Bonaire, near Venezuela in the Dutch Caribbean in 2002. And for more than 15 years, the University of Maine professor of […]
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The Associated Press, Maine Public, News Center Maine, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7), WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle), HotHardware, Q-106.5, and I-95 (95.7 FM) reported on the University of Maine’s unveiling of the world’s largest 3D printer and largest 3D-printed object. More than 250 federal and state […]
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