As this past spring semester came to a close, researchers and students at Rogers Farm — the sustainable agriculture research facility of the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture — were gearing up for another busy summer. July 16, the Sustainable Agriculture Field Day was held at Rogers Farm, which featured demonstrations by graduate […]
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Nontraditional undergraduate seeks to learn about forestry to better manage 1,000 acres
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A University of Maine-based center that aims to improve outcomes for individuals with autism spectrum disorder through leadership, training, collaboration and research continues to grow with funding from the Maine Department of Education (DOE). The Maine Autism Institute for Education and Research (MAIER), recently was awarded more than $150,000 from the Maine DOE to advance […]
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PRI’s “The World” mentioned two University of Maine researchers in the article, “Here’s what climate change looks like from the edge of the Greenland icecap.” According to the article, Greenland is melting fast, which is bad news for sea level rise and other effects of climate change. Glaciologist Gordon Hamilton, an associate professor in the […]
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The Kennebec Journal carried a University of Maine release on archaeological research conducted by Marissa Bovie, a double major in anthropology and Earth science at UMaine. The Vassalboro native traveled to Croatia in 2014 as part of a team to help build a collaborative network of colleagues from different fields in relation to an archaeological […]
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Business Insider, Science, Climate Central, The Verge, The Conversation and Coastal Review Online reported on a new study of the United States coastline that found the confluence of storm surges and heavy precipitation can bring dangerous flooding to low-lying coastal regions, including major metropolitan areas. The research team was led by Thomas Wahl, a postdoctoral […]
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Marcella Sorg, a research professor with the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Washington Post article about a Falmouth, Maine family’s painful experience with heroin addiction. The article focused on a 29-year-old man who died of an overdose at his parent’s home after briefly getting clean. The […]
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Research being conducted at the University of Maine was mentioned in the Ozy article, “Lost? Send in drones and robots.” Today, search-and-rescue operators — first responders, law enforcement and even volunteers — are using drones and robots to locate individuals more accurately and efficiently than ever before, according to the article. At UMaine, students are […]
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A 1996 University of Maine study on water quality was mentioned in the Morning Sentinel article, “Belgrade Lakes water quality could dive in a decade.” A recent analysis of 40 years of water tests indicates that water quality on the lakes is on a downward trend, and if not reversed, could lead to serious water […]
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Nicholas Giudice, a professor in the School of Computing and Information Science who directs the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory at the University of Maine, and Richard Corey, the lab’s director of operations, spoke about the lab with Portland Monthly for an article about the variety of innovation in Maine. VEMI is one […]
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