The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the recipients of the CUGR Fall Creative and Academic Achievement Fellowships for 2014–15. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research, and awarded by the President’s Office. Each fellowship provides a $1,000 award for the student to help […]
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WVII (Channel 7) spoke with Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist for the state and a research professor at the University of Maine, about a Maine effort to gather data on violent deaths over the next five years. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded almost $1 million to help pay for compiling information […]
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The University of Maine was mentioned in two Environment & Energy Publishing articles that focused on ocean energy. The first article mentioned the new wind and wave laboratory being built at UMaine. W² is the world’s first wind and wave lab to feature a rotating open-jet wind tunnel above a 100-foot-long by 30-foot-wide by 15-foot-deep […]
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Windpower Monthly published an article about the platform of VolturnUS, a prototype that’s one-eighth the scale of a full-size offshore wind turbine that was deployed off the coast of Castine in June 2013. VolturnUS was created by the University of Maine-led DeepCwind Consortium. During its deployment, the platform has experienced storm conditions allowing UMaine to […]
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Research being conducted by Yong Chen, a fisheries scientist at the University of Maine, was mentioned in the Portland Press Herald article, “Fishermen say new restrictions unfairly overlook cod caught in lobster traps.” According to the article, emergency restrictions aimed at protecting declining cod stocks in the Gulf of Maine have some fishermen worried that […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported three University of Maine researchers will travel to the Falkland Islands to learn more about the region’s biodiversity and what can be done to preserve it. Jacquelyn Gill, an assistant professor of paleoecology and plant ecology, will travel with two graduate students — Kit Hamley and Dulcinea Groff. “We are very […]
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Maine Sea Grant has announced the Oct. 1, 2014 appointment of Damian Brady as assistant director for research. Brady, an assistant research professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the Darling Marine Center, earned his doctorate at the University of Delaware in 2008. His research combines approaches from disciplines including marine biology, biogeochemistry and […]
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Understanding the biodiversity of bacteria associated with marine algae that contribute to marine ecosystem health is the focus of a study led by three University of Maine researchers. Susan Brawley, a professor of plant biology in the School of Marine Sciences and a cooperating professor in the School of Biology and Ecology, is leading the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on aquaculture research at the University of Maine for the report, “Aquaculture in Maine: A look inside.” WABI visited UMaine’s Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR), a state-of-the-art business incubation facility and center for aquaculture research, development and demonstration on a 25-acre campus on the shore of Taunton Bay in Franklin, […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a University of Maine tour of the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory and Advanced Manufacturing Center that was given to Maine Health Access Foundation members to showcase the university’s research into helping Maine’s elderly population age comfortably and conveniently. “At the VEMI Lab, we specialize in looking […]
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