Science Nation reported on research by University of Maine paleoclimatologist Karl Kreutz in an article and video titled “Alaska mountain glaciers retreating due to climate change.” With support from the National Science Foundation, Kreutz and his team are working to reconstruct the climate history of the area around Alaska’s Denali National Park over the last […]
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Andrew Thomas, an oceanographer at the University of Maine, and Andrew Pershing, an associate professor in UMaine’s School of Marine Sciences and researcher at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, were quoted in a Portland Press Herald article about Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences using the Nova Star ferry to study changes in the Gulf […]
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University of Maine researchers have been awarded $700,000 to develop eco-friendly particleboard panels with adhesive made of cellulose nanofibrils (CNF), as well as design a commercial-scale plant to manufacture the CNF. With one $350,000 grant, UMaine scientists Mehdi Tajvidi, William Gramlich, Doug Bousfield, Doug Gardner and Mike Bilodeau, as well as John Hunt from the […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Janet Fairman, an associate professor of education at the University of Maine, for the article, “Tax relief scarce in school consolidations.” Fairman, who co-wrote two studies on school reorganization in Maine, said research showed consolidation did seem to work when it came to expanding opportunities for students across the district. […]
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The Associated Press reported the University of Maine is part of a group of scientific and academic institutions called the Northeast Consortium that is leading a research initiative about the groundfish stocks in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank. The consortium, which includes UMaine, the University of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported a group called Lobster Unlimited LLC is developing a product that transforms ground lobster shells into an organic pelletized soil amendment to fend off pests for use by large commercial agricultural growers and golf courses. The initiative grew from a collaboration between Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute […]
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The Portland Press Herald advanced the Maine Technology Institute’s second annual TechWalk to be held at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on Oct. 2. More than 90 Maine high-tech firms and organizations will showcase their innovations at the event, and the University of Maine will have a strong presence, the article states. The exhibition, […]
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The Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory at the University of Maine will hold its second annual open house from 4–6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 1. The lab, located in Carnegie Hall, is part of the spatial informatics program in the School of Computing and Information Science and houses Maine’s only research facility that combines […]
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University of Maine hazing research was cited in a Post and Courier article about hazing on college campuses. “Universities and colleges nationwide have stepped up efforts to combat activities such as sexual assaults, binge drinking and hazing in the wake of studies by the University of Maine and other institutions indicating the practices are widespread […]
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The Working Waterfront published a report about Douglas Rasher, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, winning the Mercer Award for publishing an outstanding ecological research paper before the age of 40. He received the award at the 99th annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Aug. 11 […]
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