Maine Sea Grant staff and Maine-based researchers will advance a multimillion-dollar NOAA Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative (ALI), which announced its third round of funding. Six newly funded research projects, three of which are led by Maine-based researchers, will address critical gaps in knowledge about how the American lobster (Homarus americanus) is being impacted by […]
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Since its first recorded sighting by European explorers in the 1600s, scientists and historians have believed that Europeans were the first people to ever set foot on the Falkland Islands. Findings from a new University of Maine-led study, however, suggests otherwise; that human activity on the islands predates European arrival by centuries. Kit Hamley, National […]
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Alessandro Mereghetti has 59 time capsules from Siberia that will give insights into which animals lived there more than 20,000 years ago, as well as what plants they ate and how they interacted with the landscape over millennia. These time capsules from the Siberian permafrost are coprolites. Also called fossilized feces. “Poop is a time […]
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture, NOAA Fisheries and the University of Maine have initiated a unique partnership to better understand how U.S. fishermen market their catch. The partnership will increase understanding of the scope and scale of local and regional seafood marketing practices nationwide, and help remove barriers to direct marketing for the commercial fishing […]
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Habib Dagher, executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, is the inaugural recipient of the 2021 Academic Pioneer Award from the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA). Dagher and the Advanced Structures and Composites Center team were honored in person at ACMA’s Membership Awards Ceremony and Reception on Oct. 18 in […]
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Researchers have made a significant advance in surface science, introducing a new active mechanism of adsorption based on rotaxane molecules with pumping cassettes attached on a surface, according to a new study in the journal Science. University of Maine professor R. Dean Astumian, a theorist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is an author […]
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An interactive sculpture that harnesses the rays of the sun to help users explore multiplication and division will be installed in Orono’s Webster Park, the product of a unique partnership between the University of Maine and the town of Orono. It will be the first public installation of the SunRule, which was invented by […]
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The Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriations bills were officially released from the Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday, October 18. U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $57,537,000 in funding to support research and initiatives at the University of Maine and the University of Maine System. Included in the bill is […]
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Pentagon leaders appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee in late September to review the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s takeover of the country. As the Taliban gains control over the country amidst ongoing instability, it has become clear that the road to peace seems more difficult than ever before. “I think […]
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Orono, Maine — Two years ago, the Maine 4-H Foundation launched a fund development campaign to purchase the Magic Lantern, a theater and restaurant on Depot Street in Bridgton, and expand the community engagement it offers with the development and creation of a 4-H innovation lab and learning center for youth. On Oct. 14, the […]
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