KBTX (Channel 3 in Bryan, Texas) cited a data visualization on the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer indicating that 2023 was the hottest year on record worldwide. The station reported that according to the Climate Reanalyzer, “the global temperature anomaly in 2023 was higher than the previous record of 2016′s 1.78°F above […]
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Central features of human evolution may stop our species from resolving global environmental problems like climate change, says a new study led by the University of Maine. Humans have come to dominate the planet with tools and systems to exploit natural resources that were refined over thousands of years through the process of cultural adaptation […]
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Researchers from the University of Maine and Penn State discovered that molecules experience non-reciprocal interactions without external forces. Fundamental forces such as gravity and electromagnetism are reciprocal, where two objects are attracted to each other or are repelled by each other. In our everyday experience, however, interactions don’t seem to follow this reciprocal law. For […]
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Ek Han Tan, associate professor of plant genetics, spoke with The Washington Post about a discovery he and University of New England researcher Thomas Klak made when studying chestnut trees. Many researchers across much of the U.S. thought they were studying genetically-modified chestnut trees known as Darling 58s, created to resist a deadly disease. Tan […]
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The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center (MHC) at the University of Maine has announced the faculty and staff who receive its Fall 2023 research grants. The grants provide up to $5,000 to support research, community engagement, or innovative teaching in the humanities. Recipients this fall include Taylor Ashley, coordinator for diversity and inclusion at […]
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Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, spoke with the Concord Monitor about BioHome3D, the first ever 3D-printed house made entirely with bio-based materials, and how it endured one of Maine’s most volatile weather years during its first year of outdoor testing. “We wanted to see how it […]
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The Maine Monitor and Spectrum News cited the latest overdose report from the Office of the Attorney General and researchers from the University of Maine Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. The Bangor Daily News, The Piscataquis Observer and News Center Maine shared the article from The Maine Monitor.
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Farms.com highlighted research exploring new technologies and resources to support wild blueberry production being conducted by University of Maine researchers at Blueberry Hill Farm in Jonesboro. The work is supported by a $2.9 million award from the U.S. Small Business Administration, secured by U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King at the request of the […]
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WPIX (Channel 11 in New York) noted that the University of Maine is among the universities partnering in the Host-Virus Evolutionary Dynamics Institute, a multi-institutional, multi-investigator institute formed to study host-virus interactions across domains of life with the goal of determining universal “rules of life” to which all viruses adhere.
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The past year has been a busy one for the University of Maine, and with the non-stop activity came numerous stories of student and faculty success, innovation, research with local and global impacts and exciting new services and facilities. As we look forward to 2024 and another year of accomplishments from and additions to the […]
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