Research being conducted at the University of Maine was mentioned in an Examiner.com article about a swarm of 15,000 honey bees that recently descended upon Capitol Hill. The bees had been out of their nest looking for a new, larger home, according to the article. A group of UMaine researchers have undertaken a project to […]
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The Weekly published a University of Maine news release about University of Maine marine scientist Bob Steneck delivering a coral reef address on World Oceans Day in the Dominican Republic. Steneck encouraged Dominican Republic officials and stakeholders to preserve and improve coral reefs — what he calls the tropical rainforests of the sea — in […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a feature article on Diego Grossmann, a recent John Bapst Memorial High School graduate. Grossmann was accepted to Bowdoin College, but plans to take a year off between high school and college to volunteer abroad with World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, an organization that pairs volunteers with farms around […]
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The Ellsworth American reported Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, is scheduled to speak at an educational event focused on the Arctic and climate change in Castine. The Maine Chapter of the Fulbright Association will host a morning of presentations on the Arctic, climate change and the Fulbright […]
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Phys.org picked up two University of Maine releases about current research projects. “Hungry bluefin tuna in a sea of plenty,” focuses on a study led by Walter Golet, assistant research professor in the School of Marine Sciences and the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. In a paper in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series, the […]
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UMaine scientists in Mongolia seek to learn about processes that launch Earth out of an ice age.
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Steneck delivers coral reef address on World Oceans Day in Dominican Republic.
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UMaine researchers strive to increase bee populations in Maine.
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PennLive cited a 2008 University of Maine study in the article “‘A culture problem, not a college problem’: The discussion on combating hazing continues.” The study, which was conducted by researchers Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden, found 74 percent of students that experienced at least one hazing behavior were in varsity athletics, while 73 were […]
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An Orono-based company founded by two University of Maine graduates has been awarded $224,996 from the National Science Foundation to create a prototype for the first completely eco-friendly thermal insulation foam board. Nadir Yildirim, a graduate of UMaine’s innovation engineering program and current Ph.D. student in the Wood Science and Technology Program in the School […]
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