Beth Davis: Using eDNA to Monitor Maine’s Rivers
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 […]
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Chanthu Millay: Expressing an exceptional life through art
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 […]
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‘Teaching is my calling’: Heather Anderson, UMaine alumna and Aroostook County Teacher of the Year
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 […]
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Sophia Pelletier: Marine ecology on the Maine coast
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, […]
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Guillermo Figueroa-Muñoz: From salmonids in Patagonia to alewives in Maine
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 […]
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Nhan Chau: Designing for science at Maine EPSCoR
Growing up in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, Nhan Chau and her little brother would watch cartoons together — Doraemon, a Japanese anime about a time-traveling robotic cat, was their […]
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Kaia De Vries: National math award winner loves a challenge
Complex math problems can intimidate some second-year college students, but they invigorate Kaia De Vries. The University of Maine sophomore dives headfirst into real analysis, permutations, inversions and other challenging […]
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Liza White: Engineering new applications for paper mill products
Growing up in Rumford, Maine, Liza White learned the extent to which paper manufacturers contribute to the rural economies in which they operate. Residents would regularly say “paper is money” […]
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Ross Sousa: Using new tools to solve old problems on the farm
While working part-time on farms and in greenhouses, University of Maine senior Ross Sousa of Somerset, Massachusetts learned firsthand how disease can ruin crops. Memories of farmers’ plight, combined with […]
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Evan Warburton: A fun guy studying fungi
Evan Warburton is wild about mushrooms. He forages for edible mushrooms, grows oyster mushrooms in his apartment and researches how fungi interact with trees as an undergraduate researcher at the […]
