The University of Maine was mentioned in The Forecaster article, “Topsham to vote on budget, vernal pools regulations.” Topsham residents will vote on a $9.3 million municipal budget for fiscal year 2017 at the town meeting on May 18, according to the article. Another item that will be put before voters would amend the town […]
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Jake Ward, the University of Maine’s vice president of innovation and economic development, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News article about an auction of items from the shuttered Lincoln Pulp and Tissue and Expera Old Town mills. The fate of UMaine’s research center for wood-based products located on the former Expera pulp mill site […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “Have a Maine problem? A UMaine student researcher can work on a solution,” by Jack McLachlan, a master’s student in ecology and environmental sciences and the vice president of the Graduate Student Government at UMaine. McLachlan researches the tidal freshwater wetlands of Merrymeeting Bay in the Kennebec […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in the Mainebiz article, “Startups in Maine need to more quickly become mid-sized companies.” The Maine Development Foundation’s newly released “Measures of Growth 2016” report states Maine’s total percentage of gross domestic product spent for R&D in 2011 was $535 million, which is about 1 percent of the state’s […]
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The University of Maine Humanities Center (UMHC) has awarded more than $10,000 to seven faculty grant projects, including several based in the community. Spring 2016 UMHC Faculty Grants were awarded to: Constant Albertson, associate professor of art, to support the new media component of her ceramic art project, “Coordinates of Collateral Damage.” Kirsten Jacobson, associate […]
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The research of more than 500 undergraduate and graduate students will be highlighted in a daylong symposium April 27 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. The 2016 UMaine Student Research Symposium will be held from 8 a.m.–5 p.m. The free public event is sponsored by UMaine Graduate Student Government and the Center for Undergraduate […]
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The Associated Press reported Jacquelyn Gill, a paleoecologist at the University of Maine, will speak April 19 at the Merryspring Nature Center in Camden about how scientists are looking to the past for clues about threats to modern biodiversity. The assistant professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute will […]
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Aaron Putnam, the George H. Denton Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences at the University of Maine, about his ice age research and being awarded one of most prestigious grants for an early-career scientist. In May, Putnam will take the reins of a $591,000 Faculty Early Career […]
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Richard Judd, the McBride Professor of History at the University of Maine, was featured on an episode of “Bill Green’s Maine” on WLBZ (Channel 2) and WCSH (Channel 6 in Portland). Judd spoke about 1816, which is referred to as the “Year Without a Summer,” and took Green to Special Collections in UMaine’s Fogler Library […]
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People who ate chocolate at least once a week performed better on multiple cognitive tasks, compared to those who ate chocolate less frequently, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Maine, University of South Australia and Luxembourg Institute of Health that has garnered international attention. With age, education, gender age and […]
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