Homemade salsa recipes are abundant on food blogs, but the majority of them fail to follow USDA home canning guidelines and are a cause of food safety concern, according to a new University of Maine study. In the study, “Adherence of Food Blog Salsa Recipes to Home Canning Guidelines,” UMaine Extension professor Kathy Savoie and […]
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Compiling data to better assess, understand and forecast complex forest landscape changes is the goal of a four-year, multidisciplinary regional project led by the University of Maine. The project was awarded $6 million from the National Science Foundation, with $3 million contingent on project progress and availability of funds. It will bring together expertise and […]
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Ten first-year students from five states are enrolled at the University of Maine this fall in the new Pathways to NROTC program. The students from California, Georgia, Virginia, New York and Massachusetts were selected from among 77 applicants nationwide for their academic qualifications, demonstrated leadership, and interest in pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering and […]
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To understand industrial-age glacier recession and climate warming in New Zealand, an international research team led by the University of Maine will document the past 10,000 years of natural variations by studying the moraines of retreating glaciers and rings of temperature-sensitive trees in the Southern Hemisphere. The data will allow researchers to compare the Holocene-era […]
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Researchers from the University of Maine and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have developed a method for studying the timing of scallop spawning by analyzing the environmental DNA found in water samples. The newly published study provides a tool for managing wild and farmed shellfish populations, and it demonstrates the promise of emerging eDNA approaches […]
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A $500,000 National Science Foundation research grant to the University of Maine to study self-driving vehicles aims to make the transportation of the future more accessible, usable and trustworthy. The project, co-led by Nicholas Giudice and Richard Corey, who run and direct the VEMI Lab at the University of Maine, is designed to improve user […]
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“None of us is smarter than all of us,” reads a sign above the door to the office on PackGen’s manufacturing floor. For PackGen, a company based in Auburn, Maine that specializes in making industrial shipping containers, it’s all about the people who make a difference in the process, from sparking ideas to manufacturing products […]
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In 2018, Patrick Pittis was eager to land a job in the entertainment industry after earning a graduate degree in Writing and Producing for TV at Loyola Marymount University. He did. As an usher at a movie theater. The pay was good. And between cleaning seats and trash cans, he got to watch films for […]
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A $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation EPSCoR program will fund a five-year initiative that aims to revolutionize environmental monitoring, ecological understanding and sustainability of coastal ecosystems. The University of Maine is partnering with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences and other collaborators in education, government agencies, citizen’s groups and local industry statewide. “The […]
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State-of-the-art geospatial data collection and modeling to assess, monitor and forecast the quality, health and value of Maine forestlands is the focus of a new NASA-funded project led by the University of Maine. The three-year project, funded by a nearly $750,000 NASA grant, is led by Parinaz Rahimzadeh, assistant professor of remote sensing of natural […]
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