The Bangor Daily News, Piscataquis Observer and Penobscot Bay Pilot reported that Wilhelm Friess, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maine, was awarded $749,999 from the National Science Foundation for a project that supports talented, low-income engineering students called Building Bridges for Engineering Students (BBEST). “This program presents a unique opportunity to […]
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WESA-FM (90.5 in Pittsburgh) featured Paul Mayewski, director and professor of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine and Distinguished Professor in the Schools of Earth and Climate Sciences, Marine Sciences, Policy and International Affairs, Business School and University of Maine School of Law. The segment featured Mayewski’s new book, “The Ice Chronicles: […]
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Bradfield Lyon, a research professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, spoke to the Guardian about this September’s record-breaking heat waves in California. “By mid-century, the [spatial] size of heatwaves in the US are expected to increase between about 50% to 80% from what they are in the current climate. The frequency will […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Penobscot Bay Pilot reported that the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host the talk “How can we be honest brokers in an honestly broken system?” at 3 p.m Sept. 19. The speaker will be Sonja Birthisel, director of Wilson Center. Visit […]
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The journal Science published a perspective paper by University of Maine researchers Daniel Sandweiss and Kirk Maasch about how El Niño influences the presence of fauna and human predation of it. In their piece, Sandweiss, a professor in the Anthropology Department and Climate Change Institute, and Maasch, a professor in the School of Earth and […]
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The University of Maine’s School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA) and the Climate Change Institute (CCI) will partner with the American Security Project (ASP) and Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) for an in-person public panel “Consistent and Compelling: Maine’s Model for Mitigating Climate Change” 4–5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14, at Buchanan Alumni […]
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The Canadian-American Center at the University of Maine received two grants from the Department of Education totaling $1.55 million to continue offering programs, and incorporate new ones, as a National Resource Center on Canada. The Canadian-American Center is the lead institution for the Northeast National Resource Center on Canada, which also includes the State University […]
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UPI interviewed Kristina Cammen, assistant professor of marine mammal science at the University of Maine, for an article about a new machine learning software designed to recognize the faces of individual seals that could help scientists answer questions about the social behavior, site fidelity and movement of harbor seals. Cammen commented on the recovery of […]
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Richard Corey, director of the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab at the University of Maine, spoke to Grid about whether autonomous vehicles will be able to push gas-powered cars off the market. Corey discussed the issue of how people will interact with autonomous vehicles once they become more prevalent, and discussed VEMI Lab’s […]
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Jaclyn Robidoux, marine extension associate with Maine Sea Grant at the University of Maine, was featured as a panelist on Maine Public’s show “Maine Calling” for a segment about the state’s role in the future of the global seaweed industry.
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