From sessions on climate action and solid waste to ocean acidification and green infrastructure, the 2017 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference will feature an expanded agenda on topics affecting Maine, New England, the country and the globe. The event will be held Thursday, March 30 at the Augusta Civic Center and will include two concurrent […]
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Members of the University of Maine community are invited to celebrate the differences that contribute to the campus and surrounding areas during Diversity Week and Islamic Awareness Week, March 27–31. Highlights of Diversity Week, which is put on by the Office of Multicultural Student Life, include a panel discussion and book talk. “Can We Really […]
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Creating a better understanding of how humans use and control their voice is the focus of a five-year study being led by a University of Maine researcher. Xudong Zheng, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is leading the project that will use computer models to look at the role of mucosal wave propagation in sound […]
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University of Maine Professor Emeritus Hal Borns and Gary Hoyle, artist and former curator at the Maine State Museum, will present “Mammoths in Maine,” at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 28 in the Bodwell Lounge of the Hudson Museum. Borns and Hoyle will speak about the history of the ancient animal in the state. A tusk […]
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The University of Maine Darling Marine Center is the site of a five-day workshop for college and university instructors of developmental biology. The June 27–July 1 Developmental Biology Teaching Workshop introduces senior faculty and the next generation of developmental biologists to a variety of laboratory tools and a host of research organisms. Low-budget, high-impact microscopy […]
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The University of Maine’s Stormwater Management Research Team (SMART) program will be featured in the 2017 NSF INCLUDES Video Showcase. The online event will feature three-minute videos on projects around the country that are aspiring to make STEM education in the United States more inclusive. The SMART program, based in the College of Engineering, seeks […]
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The Ellsworth American wrote about the University of Maine School of Forest Resources’ Barbara Wheatland Geospatial Analysis Laboratory’s involvement with the construction of a new waste transfer station in Orland. “Basically the client wanted the most up-to-date representation of what’s there on the ground,” says Dave Sandilands, a graduate student, remote sensing specialist and aerial […]
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Ivan J. Fernandez will address “Maine’s Climate Future – How Do We Respond?” at 11 a.m. Friday, March 17 at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Fernandez is a soil scientist with the School of Forest Resources and the Climate Change Institute.
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David Wheeler will teach a natural science illustration workshop June 12–16 at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Wheeler, a teacher and artist for more than 25 years, will introduce basic shapes found in nature and help participants sharpen their observation skills. “We draw creative people from the Midcoast area and from […]
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Pascal Bohleber’s findings about ice thickness on Mount Kilimanjaro are featured in Eos, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. Bohleber is an adjunct research assistant professor at the Climate Change Institute. In 2015, he led a team that — for the first time — took ground-penetrating radar to Kilimanjaro’s 6,000-meter-high summit. “It’s like an […]
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