The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release announcing a $748,000 National Science Foundation grant for the development and evaluation of a first-of-its-kind remote learning platform. The system will provide people who are blind or visually impaired nonvisual access to STEM-related graphical information. The project, “A Remote Multimodal Learning Environment to Increase Graphical […]
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Climate change in coastal tourism destinations in Maine is the focus of a University of Maine study funded by a $152,562 grant from NOAA. The study is led by Sandra De Urioste-Stone, an assistant professor of nature-based tourism in UMaine’s School of Forest Resources and Center for Research on Sustainable Forests, in collaboration with UMaine […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed researchers from the University of Maine about their ongoing study on the challenges and opportunities for maple syrup and honey producers. The study, “Finding the Sweet Spot: Scales, Challenges and Opportunities for Beekeeping and Maple Syrup Production in Maine,” is a collaboration between UMaine and College of the Atlantic, and […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported on the fourth annual University of Maine Aging Initiative Summer Workshop Aug. 24 in Belfast. “Now at the system level all seven campuses are collaborating to work on this challenge that the state is facing around aging,” University of Maine System Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Innovation […]
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Phys.org published a University of Maine news release about a study on the ineffectiveness of zoning as a means of regional habitat conservation for white-tailed deer. The study was led by Erin Simons-Legaard, a research assistant professor of forest landscape modeling at UMaine. Deer often choose wintering habitat based on the characteristics of the surrounding […]
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Development and evaluation of a first-of-its-kind remote learning platform providing people who are blind or visually impaired (BVI) nonvisual access to STEM-related graphical information is the focus of a $748,000 National Science Foundation grant to the University of Maine. The project, “A Remote Multimodal Learning Environment to Increase Graphical Information Access for Blind and Visually […]
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ScienceDaily, EurekAlert and Medical Xpress published a news release from the MDI Biological Laboratory about new research on regeneration by scientists at the laboratory and the University of Maine. Benjamin King, an assistant professor of bioinformatics at UMaine and co-lead researcher, identified genetic material previously thought to be useless as having a role in regulating […]
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Protection of only narrowly defined zones of winter habitat is not an effective means of regional habitat conservation for white-tailed deer, according to a new University of Maine study. The study found that zoning is not an effective wildlife conservation strategy if land use is unregulated for the surrounding landscape, and that habitat protection confined […]
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Phys.org and The Penobscot Times published a University of Maine news release about the sale of furfural derivatives and how they can make renewable fuel production more financially attractive to potential investors. Kaveh Dalvand, a researcher in the School of Economics at UMaine, worked with a team to find co-products of renewable fuel, with a focus […]
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Sales of furfural derivatives could make renewable fuel production considerably more financially attractive, according to a new University of Maine study. The study, “Economics of biofuels: Market potential of furfural and its derivatives,” was led by Kaveh Dalvand, a researcher in the School of Economics, and was published in the journal Biomass & Bioenergy. A […]
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