The Sun Journal reported the town of Norway has been awarded a Project Canopy grant that will address the estimated 5,000 ash trees that are in jeopardy of being killed by the emerald ash borer. Norway’s tree warden said the grant will be used to develop an inventory to identify the number and location of […]
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Librarians at Fogler Library teach a range of research sessions that support educational goals across disciplines, and they often provide supplementary assistance by creating online course guides. These course guides help link students to articles, databases and other resources relevant to their research. Course guides librarians have created for faculty this semester include BUA 325: […]
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Fogler Library has added three films about Antarctica to its YouTube channel. Two of the films are National Science Foundation productions from 1975 and 1978. These include shots of University of Maine faculty members George Denton and Harold W. Borns Jr., among the many featured researchers. The third film has silent footage taken by Paramount […]
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Warren Riess is the recipient of the 2015 John Gardner Maritime Research Award from the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. Riess, a research associate professor of history, anthropology and marine sciences, is based at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Riess earned the award for making a significant contribution to the […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported Brewer composite manufacturer Compotech Inc. was awarded a $5,000 grant for early-stage companies in the latest round of Maine Technology Institute awards. The company, which got its start in the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center in 2011, makes composite materials primarily for defense applications such as armor, […]
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Todd Gabe, an economics professor at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Mount Desert Islander article about Bar Harbor’s coming cruise ship season. Gabe plans to conduct a study this summer on the economic impact of cruise ship visits in the town, according to the article. Gabe and students did a similar study […]
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The Maine Edge carried a University of Maine news release announcing the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute will host this year’s international conference on behalf of the International Society of Fish & Shellfish Immunology (ISFSI). This is the second international conference of the ISFSI and the first time the global group of researchers and […]
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“Gender Roles and Society,” a 2003 encyclopedia entry by University of Maine sociology professor Amy Blackstone, is the most downloaded, full-text article currently available in DigitalCommons@UMaine. “It is tremendously gratifying to know that my work has reached such a large audience. I’m stunned,” Blackstone says of the article’s nearly 20,300 downloads. Although the Digital Commons […]
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Mohsen Shahinpoor, a University of Maine mechanical engineering professor specializing in biomedical engineering, was mentioned in the Sun Journal article, “Medical wonders: The cool, new and unique in Maine medicine.” Shahinpoor believes health care will see more smart materials and systems, such as artificial muscles made from polymers, which he has been working on, according […]
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The Falkland Island News Network carried a WLBZ (Channel 2) report about the University of Maine’s Follow a Researcher program. For a second year, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H is offering the program that aims to connect K–12 students in Maine and around the country to UMaine researchers in the field. From Jan. […]
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