Carol Kim, University of Maine’s vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School, has named economics professor Jonathan Rubin the director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center is a nonpartisan, independent research and public service unit of UMaine. Rubin has been a member of the center’s […]
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Todd Gabe, an economics professor at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a CityLab article written by Richard Florida, co-founder and editor at large of CityLab and a senior editor at The Atlantic. Florida wrote the article based on his analysis of the geography of this year’s Republican primaries, which he conducted with a […]
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The Sun Journal quoted research and personnel from the University of Maine in an article on Maine’s warming weather and its effect on insects and the diseases they carry. Between 1895 and 2014, Maine warmed 3 degrees, according to “Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” a report produced by UMaine’s Climate Change Institute (CCI) and Maine […]
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University of Maine graduate students and faculty will make more than 60 presentations about emerging climate change research on topics from lobsters to deer ticks at the 24th annual Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium on April 14–15, in Stodder Hall. The symposium namesake, Professor Emeritus Harold “Hal” Borns, founded the Climate Change Institute at UMaine […]
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Reference Services at Fogler Library has created an online guide for anyone preparing posters, presentations or papers for conferences. The tool may be particularly helpful to students participating in the 2016 UMaine Graduate and Undergraduate Student Research Symposium on April 27 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.
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The Department of Sociology and Office of Multicultural Student Life are among the latest programs to upgrade to the university’s new website template. The Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research and Newman Center also recently upgraded. The new umaine.edu and related pages debuted in summer 2015. For more information on the UMaine website conversion, contact Mike […]
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A 2011 waste characterization study by the University of Maine School of Economics was cited in the Morning Sentinel article, “Waterville launches pilot residential composting program.” The study estimated that more than 38 percent of the trash Maine residents threw away could be composted instead.
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Undergraduate students from the School of Marine Sciences will present the research they conducted for their capstone projects on Thursday, April 7 in Wells Conference Center. Students prepared posters to explain their research, and will be available to answer questions from 3 to 5 p.m. An award ceremony will follow.
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University of Maine doctoral student Skylar Bayer and oceanographer Bob Steneck will deliver TEDx talks at separate events in May. Bayer, based at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, will take the stage at TEDxPiscataquaRiver “On the Edge” on Friday, May 6, at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Bayer, a doctoral candidate in marine […]
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The Ellsworth American spoke with Hal Borns, professor emeritus with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences, for the article, “Global sea level rise predictions double.” The article cites a study recently published in the journal Science that suggests global sea rise is happening faster than anyone thought, […]
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