Women in Leadership Week Highlighted by the Installation Ceremony of UMaine’s 20th president
Highlighted by the Installation Ceremony of UMaine’s 20th president.
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Expanding Your Horizons Conference for Middle School Girls March 12
More than 480 middle school girls from around the state are expected to take part in the annual University of Maine conference that aims to provide a safe and encouraging environment to explore science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The 28th Expanding Your Horizons conference takes place March 12 on the UMaine campus and features […]
Read moreAHI Awarded $657,000 to Develop Land-Based Aquafarm
The National Science Foundation awarded $657,000 to Acadia Harvest Inc. (AHI), which is working to achieve a commercial-scale, land-based, indoor Maine seafood farm with low to zero waste. AHI, which formed in 2011, has conducted collaborative research at the University of Maine Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research (CCAR) in Franklin, to advance the technology of […]
Read moreAcademy-Award Winning Pixar Scientist to Speak at UMaine March 20
The University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the 2015 Maine Science Festival will present a public talk by an Academy-Award winning computer scientist from Pixar Animation Studios on March 20. Tony DeRose, a senior scientist and lead of the Research Group at Pixar, will give the free public talk, “Recent Research […]
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Doles Orchard farmer, Allagash Brewing toast AgrAbility
Doles Orchard farmer, Allagash Brewing toast AgrAbility.
Read moreMargaret Chase Smith Policy Center to Honor Barton Seaver
Chef, author and sustainable food system expert Barton Seaver is being honored by the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center (MCSPC) as a Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow at a reception at 4 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, at the University Club in Fogler Library at the University of Maine. This event, originally slated for Jan. 27, was […]
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UMaine Report Updates Climate Challenges, Encourages Proactive Preparation
Editor’s note: The story was updated April 8, 2015. Continuing or accelerating warming of the atmosphere and ocean. Intense precipitation events. Rising sea levels. These are signs of climate change, and all of them are affecting Maine people, according to Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update, a new report from the University of Maine. Recent consequences […]
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In Alga, Steneck and Team Reveal More Than a Century of Environmental Information
University of Maine marine scientist Bob Steneck is part of an international team that has unlocked an underwater time capsule in the North Pacific that has been monitoring the climate for centuries. The time capsule is the long-living, slow-growing alga Clathromorphum nereostratum that creates massive reefs in shallow coastal regions of Alaska’s Aleutian archipelago. These […]
Read moreThe Weekly Reports on Smith’s Popular Research Topic for ScienceInsider
The Weekly published a University of Maine news release about research on teaching methods by Michelle Smith, an assistant professor in the School of Biology and Ecology. Aleszu Bajak penned “Lectures Aren’t Just Boring, They’re Ineffective, Too, Study Finds,” for ScienceInsider about the research that Smith and others conducted with lead author Scott Freeman of […]
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Cetinić Featured in Oceanography Society Report on Progress of Women in the Field
Ivona Cetinić plays with son Veles on a beach in Rhode Island after her four-week research cruise aboard R/V Endeavor (in background) in summer 2014. University of Maine researcher Ivona Cetinić is one of four Maine scientists featured in The Oceanography Society’s “Women in Oceanography: The Next Decade,” a supplement to the December issue of […]
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