From 2012–14, Alireza Kianimoqadam helped provide sustainable heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems for people in Tehran as a volunteer engineer with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme. The systems he designed were efficient and relied on renewable sources instead of fossil fuels. Kianimoqadam, of Tabas, Iran, completed his bachelor’s degree only months before starting […]
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“None of us are as smart as all of us” and “students first” are two values of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC). Indeed, the statements are on the wall in the lobby and conference rooms of the University of Maine research complex, and at the heart of ASCC’s internationally recognized work by nearly […]
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Editor’s note: This story was updated Feb. 14, 2023. The assignment was simple: add information to the Wikipedia page of an invertebrate species, citing two peer-reviewed sources. Somehow, Kaylee Hussey misunderstood the task — and may have found a passion for science communication along the way. Hussey grew up in southern Maine. She always loved […]
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For Ethan Howe, investing is about more than the money: it’s about the challenge, the thrill of taking risks and the community that he has built around it. Aside from his involvement with student investment funds on campus, Howe has used his knowledge of the market to lead a UMaine team in a global competition, […]
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Warming temperatures have attracted blue crabs to the Gulf of Maine, and their aggressive nature is harmful to native bivalves that are essential to Maine fisheries. Brandon Henry, a graduate student involved in Maine EPSCoR’s environmental DNA, or eDNA, initiative, is researching the novel emergence of blue crabs along the coast of Maine, specifically Casco […]
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Beth Davis, a graduate student in the University of Maine School of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, is exploring the uses of environmental DNA, or eDNA, to monitor fish and invertebrates in freshwater rivers and streams. Advised by Andy Rominger, assistant professor of ecological bioinformatics, Davis looks to understand how community ecology in these freshwater ecosystems […]
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Chanthu Millay’s art is raw and intimate: a technicolor self-portrait in painstaking detail, a metal sculpture comprised of pieces of her old prosthetic leg, a ceramic sculpture depicting the emotions she experienced as her family’s lone survivor of the violent Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Millay’s art wasn’t always so personal. Her education at the […]
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Things have come full circle for Heather Anderson. In the 8th grade, she decided she wanted to become a teacher. Now, almost 30 years later, she’s in her second full year as an 8th grade English language arts and social studies teacher at Caribou Community School. “When I was in the 8th grade, I was […]
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In summer 2022, Sophia Pelletier served as an undergraduate research assistant in the lab of professor Heather Leslie, director of the University of Maine Darling Marine Center. Pelletier, who lives in Davis, California, graduated from University of California, Davis with a bachelor’s degree in wildlife, fish, and conservation biology. She is now applying to graduate programs in marine ecology. Pelletier wrote about her UMaine […]
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Growing up in Chile’s Patagonia region, Guillermo Figueroa-Muñoz never imagined he would end up in Orono, Maine, over 6,000 miles away from his hometown of Puerto Cisnes. Thanks to a little luck and hard work, though, the University of Maine Ph.D. student is using the research skills he learned studying fisheries in his home country […]
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