More than 1,000 student researchers, co-authors, faculty, staff, event sponsors and community members attended the 2023 UMaine Student Symposium at the Collins Center For the Arts on April 14. Read the full story on the UMaine Student Symposium webpage.
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The UMaine Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR), UMaine Space, UMaine AI and Institute of Medicine announce the recipients of the CUGR, Institute of Medicine, and Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Summer Research Fellowships. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research. Winners of the fellowships will receive $3,000 to […]
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Pallet-sized mats of wild blueberry thatch took a 52-mile trip from Deblois to the University of Maine’s Wyman’s Wild Blueberry Research and Innovation Center in Old Town April 12 for planting. The milestone in the center’s development follows years of preparations and will create multidisciplinary research opportunities for faculty and students. Maine’s state fruit is […]
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University of Maine research in partnership with Sappi North America has received a $550,000 award from the National Science Foundation to explore how existing mass produced technologies can be used to study and scale up microfluidic technology. Microfluidics studies the behavior of certain fluids through microscopic channels. The movement can be used to learn more […]
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Project Upland Magazine featured the research of Erik Blomberg, associate professor of wildlife population ecology, in an article about aging and sexing woodcocks.
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a study led by Zhao Xuan, an assistant professor of neurobiology at the University of Maine, showing how proteins interact in neurons to clear out damaged and abnormal components in the brain.
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Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective multidisciplinary collegiate honor society, has awarded graduate research grants to three University of Maine students. Emma Erwin, a Ph.D. student in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences; Elizabeth Leclerc, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. student with the Department of Anthropology and the Climate Change Institute; and Dylan […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab recently received $472,400 to support the Northeast Plant Diagnostic Network (NEPDN). The funding is part of a $3 million grant cycle from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to support the National Plant Diagnostic Network (NPDN). With this grant, UMaine Extension becomes the regional […]
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French media outlets, including La Provence, Ouest-France, Le Télégramme, Paris Match, France 24, Les Echos, and Le Figaro, and the Italian media outlet The Map Report reported on the latest Tara Ocean Expedition, Tara-Europa, which recently left the port of Lorient for a pan-European study of land-ocean interaction. Lee Karp-Boss and Emmanuel Boss, professors at […]
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A new study led by Zhao Xuan, an assistant professor of neurobiology at the University of Maine, shows how proteins interact in neurons to clear out damaged and abnormal components in the brain. Autophagy is the process by which a cell breaks down and destroys old, damaged or abnormal proteins and other substances in its […]
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