Jake Ward, the University of Maine’s vice president for innovation and economic development, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about the future of the Forest Bioproducts Research Institute’s (FBRI) Technology Research Center. FBRI researchers work on campus to create and commercialize new wood-based bioproducts that they test on a larger scale at […]
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University of Maine doctoral students Amy Kireta and Brett Gerard were quoted in a Current Publishing article on the newly opened Maine Lake Science Center in Bridgton. After seven years of planning by the Lakes Environmental Association, the year-round facility opened in June to attract scientists and educators from Maine and beyond, to conduct lake-related […]
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University of Maine mechanical engineering professor Mohsen Shahinpoor has been named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election to NAI Fellow status is a professional distinction awarded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality […]
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The Fall/Winter 2015 issue of UMaine Today magazine is now available online. Feature articles focus on the state’s potato breeding program, preparing for the next spruce budworm outbreak, salamanders on Maine islands, protecting ecosystems with the restoration of large species and UMaine’s new ocean engineering research facility.
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Migraines can be triggered by a variety of factors, including stress, sleep disruption, noise, odors and diet. Recent research by Jonathan Borkum, an adjunct associate professor of psychology at the University of Maine, indicates that many of these factors converge on a common pathway involving oxidative stress. When Borkum, a UMaine alumnus, examined studies on […]
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Robert Wagner, the Henry W. Saunders Distinguished Professor in Forestry at the University of Maine and director of the Cooperative Forestry Research Unit, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about Maine’s next anticipated spruce budworm outbreak. During the last infestation from 1970 until 1985, the Maine Forest Service estimates the insect killed […]
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The University of Maine report, “Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” was cited in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “Shrimp, Lyme, wildflowers: How climate change is already changing Maine.” While temperatures fluctuate with the weather, Maine’s average annual temperature is on an upward trend, according to the article. The state’s average temperature rose 3 degrees Fahrenheit […]
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An aesthetically designed mobility aid created by University of Maine researchers to meet the growing need for adaptive exercise engagement has received nearly $225,000 from the National Institute on Aging. The one-year $224,999 National Institutes of Health Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant will involve precision testing and the initiation of commercialization of […]
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Skylar Bayer, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, was a recent guest on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on Maine’s coming scallop season and the related high prices and regulations. Bayer studies scallop reproduction and the sustainability of the scallop fishery in the […]
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In November, Noah Oppenheim won the best student oral presentation award at the American Lobster in a Changing Ecosystem symposium in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. “Forecasting the future of the American lobster in the Gulf of Maine and Southern New England: Trouble on the horizon?” was the title of his talk. In it, the University […]
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