Mount Desert Islander reported Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine, will present during the MDI Science Café at MDI Biological Laboratory’s Kinne Library in Bar Harbor at 5 p.m. June 27. Gill’s presentation, “Should We Clone the Woolly Mammoth to Protect the Tundra from Climate Change?” will focus on creative strategies to […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that Revolution Research, founded by University of Maine forest resources doctoral candidate Nadir Yildrim, is competing for $100,000 in a pitch contest at the Maine Startup and Create Week conference. Yildirim and vice president Alexander Chasse, a UMaine civil engineering graduate, developed the foam-like material from wood fiber. Other material […]
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Knox VillageSoup carried a press release from Maine Congressional delegation members who applauded the European Union’s consideration of scientific findings by University of Maine professor Bob Steneck and others in response to a Swedish request to ban the import of American lobsters into the EU. Steneck was one of several experts from U.S. and Canadian […]
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University of Maine lobster research was cited in a Newburyport Daily News editorial that criticized Sweden’s request of the European Union to ban the import of American lobsters. “Research by New England marine biologists from the University of Maine maintains that live lobsters have been exported around the world for decades, and interbreeding and disease […]
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Kimberley Rain Miner, Ph.D. candidate in Earth and climate sciences at the University of Maine, was recently selected as a Switzer Environmental Fellow by the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. This year, the Switzer Foundation awarded 20 fellowships of $15,000 each for emerging environmental leaders who are pursuing graduate degrees and are dedicated to positive […]
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Nineteen graduate students in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine are helping ensure that European fisheries sustainably utilize ocean resources. The students participated in 20 stock assessment student reviews for European fisheries in early June through the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). ICES is the oldest intergovernmental […]
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Habib Dagher, founding director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center and professor of civil and environmental engineering, was featured in Maine magazine’s special issue highlighting dreamers and doers “charting the state’s future.” Last year, Dagher was recognized at the White House as a Transportation Champion of Change for his work on […]
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Revolution Research, Inc. was awarded funding last week from the Maine Technology Institute and the National Science Foundation to develop eco-friendly fire-retardant and water-resistant thermal insulation foam board. Nadir Yildirim, president of the company, is a University of Maine Innovation Engineering program graduate and doctoral candidate in forest resources. His spinoff company from the UMaine […]
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About 85 high school students and nearly 20 teachers from around Maine, as well as other parts of the country, will gather at the University of Maine for a multiday program that focuses on creating innovative solutions to environmental problems related to stormwater management. Students from 16 high schools in Maine and one in both […]
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About 250 researchers and industry leaders from around the world are expected to attend the second International Conference of Fish & Shellfish Immunology June 26–30 in Portland, Maine. The University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute is hosting this year’s international conference at the Holiday Inn By the Bay on behalf of the International Society of […]
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