Eleven graduate students competed in the annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on March 25 at the Innovative Media Research Center at the University of Maine. The unique competition, developed by the University of Queensland, requires presenters to explain their research using language the general public would comprehend in three minutes. The competitors were allowed […]
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University of Maine graduate students whose research focuses on climate change effects and adaptation in agriculture, forestry and aquaculture attended a workshop at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland, Maine on March 19, capping a yearlong project offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Northeast Climate Hub network. The project, Northeast Graduate Student […]
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How does the public perceive a woman running for president? Harley Rogers aims to answer that question by connecting the past to the present through her investigation of public opinion surrounding female political leaders. Rogers developed an interest in politics and history in high school after taking a series of social studies courses, as well […]
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Skylar Bayer’s “Friends in SCUBA” story that she told for SoundBites will air at 7 p.m. March 24 on Maine Public. Soundbites are “true stories told live by local Mainers and nationally recognized tellers.” Bayer, who earned her Ph.D. at the University of Maine, is a marine biologist, producer for The Story Collider, storyteller and science […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated June 3. There are lots of oysters on Josephine Roussell’s plate. A few literally, and many more figuratively. The 2018 University of Maine graduate is a research technician on a team designing a sorter for small-scale oyster growers. Aquaculture already provides more than 50 percent of seafood worldwide, according to the […]
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More than half the human population is infected with a virus that resides undetected in the kidneys of healthy people. But when a carrier of the human JC polyomavirus, or JCPyV, has a weakened immune system, the virus can migrate to the brain, where it becomes fatal. The virus spreads through contaminated food or water […]
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Extensive land development, invasive species and too many deer may make it difficult for tree migration to keep pace with climate change in the Northeast, according to newly published research. The study, led by Kathryn Miller, a plant ecologist with the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Division, and Brian McGill, a University of Maine […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Lauren Jacobs, a lecturer in kinesiology and physical education at the University of Maine, about her recent study on different elementary school policies for outdoor recess. “I already knew going into it that schools have varying recess policies, so I wanted to understand where these policies were coming from,” said […]
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National Park Service managers wanted to identify plants that might be vulnerable in Acadia National Park, but they didn’t have decades of flowering and leaf-out observations for researchers to analyze. So Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie and colleagues took an innovative approach. In four years, they collectively hiked three mountains — Cadillac, Pemetic and Sargent — in […]
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A University of Maine video on the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education, or RiSE Center, was featured on the National Science Foundation’s Science360. The UMaine center connects with educators statewide, at all levels, to advance innovative and engaging hands-on teaching and learning. The video was produced with a UMaine Today magazine story on […]
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