A professor at the University of Maine and a postdoctoral researcher at The Jackson Laboratory have been awarded a fellowship geared at promoting active learning techniques to improve biology education. Michelle Smith, an assistant professor in UMaine’s School of Biology and Ecology, and Christopher Baker, a genetics researcher at The Jackson Laboratory, earned a Promoting […]
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University of Maine Professor of Higher Education Elizabeth Allan this week will lead the second of two free webinars on hazing prevention, sponsored by the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Healthy Students. A December webinar led by Allan featured a […]
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Rebecca Schwartz-Mette, assistant professor of psychology, and two Ph.D. students in clinical psychology — Melissa Jankowski and Hannah Lawrence — attended the SIENA Winter School in Zurich, Switzerland, a four-day course in longitudinal social network analysis. The advanced statistical approach can be used to examine peer influence within social networks. A UMaine Regular Faculty Research […]
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A Still Water team led by Professor of New Media Jon Ippolito was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation to expand an innovative online publication platform. The project aims to link thematically similar online essays. In 2015, Ippolito was the inaugural recipient in the “established” category of the Arts […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering an alpaca and llama workshop from 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Saturday, March 12 at the Androscoggin-Sagadahoc counties Extension Office, 24 Main St., Lisbon Falls. Led by UMaine Extension staff, workshop topics will include bookkeeping, enterprise budgeting, insurance, pasture management and nutrition. Participants will spend the afternoon at […]
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The America East Conference announced a record 778 student-athletes have been named to its fall Honor Roll. The students receive recognition from the conference for obtaining a grade point average above 3.0. More than half (411) of the student-athletes earned a 3.50 grade point average or better and earned the Commissioner’s Honor Roll status. The […]
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A research team led by professor Denise Skonberg of the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture has been awarded a nearly $150,000 USDA grant to develop high-pressure processing technology for sous vide seafood products. Sous vide processing involves the low-temperature, long-time controlled cooking of vacuum-packaged raw foods in a hot water bath, preserving […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension will host an informational meeting about robotic dairy systems from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Wednesday, March 9 at Governor’s Restaurant, 376 Main St. in Waterville. The meeting is designed for dairy farmers and industry leaders to learn more about available robotic technology. Scheduled speakers include Les Pike, owner of Keewaydin Farm […]
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The Maine Development Foundation and the University of Maine’s School of Economics recently released a quarterly report analyzing tourism — a critical economic indicator in Maine. The latest report, “The High Seasonality of Tourism in Maine,” uses data on the state’s taxable lodging sales to examine the seasonal nature of tourism in Maine, which plays […]
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In an attempt to improve how amphibians are monitored, University of Maine researchers evaluated a waistband for attaching external radio transmitters to frogs and toads. Radio telemetry provides fine-scale temporal and spatial information about an animal’s movements and habitat use; however, its use for tracking amphibians has been restricted by transmitter mass and lack of […]
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