The University of Maine’s Campuses for Environmental Stewardship groups will present student service-learning projects from 12:30–3 p.m. Thursday, May 5 in the Bangor Room, Memorial Union. Students, faculty and community members will be in attendance. Projects conducted this semester focused on issues of importance in the state including: sustainable tourism, mining activities, Penobscot River water […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated May 9. The 214th Commencement at the University of Maine will be held May 14 in Harold Alfond Sports Arena on campus. UMaine Commencement, held in two ceremonies at 10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., is one of the largest graduation events in the state, with nearly 1,800 undergraduate and graduate students, […]
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Faculty members in marine sciences, engineering technology and political science have been named recipients of Presidential Achievement Awards, the University of Maine’s top honors. Howard M. “Mac” Gray, professor of construction engineering technology, will receive the 2016 Presidential Outstanding Teaching Award; Neal R. Pettigrew, professor of oceanography, will receive the 2016 Presidential Research and Creative […]
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Intoxicated people aren’t alone in engaging in risky behavior. Intoxicated tiny crustaceans in the ocean — or copepods — do too. And it can get them killed. Rachel Lasley-Rasher studies small shrimp-like animals that become intoxicated from grazing on blooms of toxic phytoplankton. The University of Maine marine researcher said the common calanoid copepods Temora […]
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More than 35 mechanical engineering students at the University of Maine will compete in the Mud Season Challenge on April 30 as part of their capstone requirement. The students were tasked with developing and building a fully autonomous land drone that can traverse unstable, muddy terrain to patrol the border between the U.S. and Canada […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2016 CUGR Summer Fellowship winners. The center’s advisory committee selected five proposals from 19 student submissions to be awarded $3,000 each during the summer semester. This year’s winners are: Antonia Carroll, chemistry, “Carbon Dioxide Fixation Using a Tungsten Oxide Electro-Catalyst,” advised by Brian […]
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For some, a dusty place where it snows and the average temperature is 81 degrees below zero Fahrenheit might not be an appealing destination. But Mars — the fourth planet from the sun — is a place NASA intends for astronauts to explore. Scientists at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia routinely ask, “How do […]
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For people looking to settle down, a location’s odor can be a factor in whether they stay or go. Turns out the same is true for mussel larvae. Mussel larvae swim toward odors from adult mussels, and swim away from odors from predators, including green crabs and dog whelks, says Scott Morello, a visiting researcher […]
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Kimberley Rain Miner, a second-year Ph.D. candidate in Earth and climate sciences at the University of Maine, has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to Canada in geosciences from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. Miner, who is from Los Angeles, will be conducting research at University […]
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What difference has UMaine made in your life and in helping you reach your goals? UMaine has expanded the stage of my life. I grew up in a small village in Chongqing, China. I did not go to high school because my parents couldn’t afford it. I came to the U.S. in 2009, attended Lawrence […]
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