The Harpswell Anchor and News Center Maine covered the annual Casco Bay Bluefin Bonanza at Port Harbor Marine in South Portland, where students from the University of Maine Pelagic Fisheries Lab took samples and recorded data from tuna caught during the competition to understand more about the highly migratory species. Money raised during the tournament, […]
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A new app, “What Uses More,” aims to reveal the environmental footprint of tasks completed with artificial intelligence, encouraging users to examine critically the energy and water consumption of their digital activities. The app, developed by Jon Ippolito, a professor of new media at the University of Maine, was unveiled June 25 as a part […]
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Much of the scallop farming techniques used in the U.S. derive from practices in Japan, where scallops have long been a part of the country’s seafood industry. Researchers from the University of Maine are working to test and adapt those practices to help grow the industry in the Gulf of Maine, where oyster farming is […]
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Engineers at the University of Maine have developed a method to more accurately predict the strength of lightweight 3D-printed objects. This research, conducted at UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), will enable designers to create more robust and reliable printed components that can apply to a wide range of sectors, including aerospace, automotive and […]
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The Portland Press Herald highlighted a study from University of Maine researchers that found centerline rumble strips reduce head-on and opposite sideswipe collisions by anywhere from 28% to 48%. A new national study found that traffic deaths in Maine have risen more significantly than in other parts of the country.
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Mainebiz highlighted the relationship of the University of Maine and its Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) to Maine’s industry potential in mass timber. The Maine Mass Timber Advisory Council advises UMaine’s Mass Timber Commercialization Center and serves as a research and development partner with the ASCC to innovate timber lamination and procurement processes, with […]
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News Center Maine highlighted research from Sharmila Mukhopadhyay, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maine, to develop an easy-to-use and low cost sensor that can detect a group of chemicals known as PFAS. “We have taken nano materials which have been attached to these large aerospace grade materials to create robust and reusable […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Mainebiz and News Center Maine covered a ribbon cutting, joined by Gov. Janet Mills, leaders from the University of Maine and the Maine Potato Board, for a renovation to the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station’s 425-acre Aroostook Farm, the heart of UMaine’s agricultural research on potatoes. A $3 million renovation […]
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The Maine Monitor highlighted the collaboration between the University of Maine and Blue Hill Heritage Trust since 2017 to restore red spruce to Surry Forest. Jay Wason, a UMaine associate professor of forest ecosystem physiology, is spearheading the project, and a UMaine graduate student in the school of forest resources, Rose Gellman, published a forest […]
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The research farm recently underwent a $3 million renovation funded by the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan so that the land-grant university could accelerate its development of new potato varieties, like the successful Caribou Russet, and the growth of Maine’s agricultural economy and workforce Gov. Janet Mills and leaders of the University of Maine and […]
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