Maine PE News Flash, the newsletter of the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers, thanked Dana Humphrey, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Maine, for his years of leadership and service. It noted: “When Dean Dana Humphrey, Ph.D., P.E. retires later this summer, after serving for 16 years as the […]
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Registration is open for an innovative four-week college STEM research course for qualified high school students (rising 11th–12th grade), offered by the University of Maine, July 18–Aug. 11, at the UMaine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Introduction to Integrated Science and Career Exploration (INT 188) will meet on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m.–1 p.m. […]
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The Maine Oyster Trail received a Growth and Leadership Award at the 2022 Governor’s Conference on Tourism. First launched in 2017 to educate consumers about oyster farming in Maine, the Maine Oyster Trail was reimagined in 2020 by Maine Sea Grant and the Maine Aquaculture Association in response to market changes during the coronavirus pandemic. […]
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News Center Maine reported that Ali Abedi, University of Maine professor of electrical and computer engineering, provided testimony in support of the bill LD 1923, An Act to Establish the Maine Space Corporation. “While it may sound far off, the space and aerospace economy presents a tremendous opportunity for Maine’s citizens, companies, and communities,” Abedi […]
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David Townsend, director of the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, was interviewed for Scientific American about innovative fish farms in Maine. Townsend said that Maine has two important attributes for fish cultivation: cold, nutrient-rich water and extremely vigorous tides that distribute those nutrients throughout the water column. According to Townsend, mussels […]
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Spire: The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability will release its sixth issue online this Earth Day, April 22. Spire is a student-run, interdisciplinary online journal based at the University of Maine. The publication seeks to unite communities across the Northeast by promoting impactful dialogue to effect profound environmental change. The sixth issue features photography from UMaine […]
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Leslie Forstadt, human development specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, and Caroline Noblet, associate professor of economics at the University of Maine and a team member of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions PFAS Research Initiative, were interviewed for the Bangor Daily News about the anxiety surrounding Maine’s PFAS crisis. […]
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Brie Berry, postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Anthropology, and Cindy Isenhour, associate professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion column for the Bangor Daily News about how second-hand shopping could help mitigate climate change. “For example, through a five-year research project on reuse economies in Maine, […]
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The Franco-American Centre at the University of Maine will host a hybrid in-person and virtual 2022 Rassemblement of Franco-American artists, writers and other cultural workers with events from April 22–24. Participants are invited to choose from the following virtual, in-person and hybrid events that are free and open to the public. Registration online is required […]
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With over 4 feet of annual precipitation in the Northeast United States, drought is not often considered a major factor affecting the region’s forests. But warming temperatures cause forests to dry out quicker between rains. Seedlings are especially vulnerable because their nascent root systems can’t access moisture deeper in the soil, according to a University […]
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