The University of Maine is a lead partner in a new $15 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Regional Innovation Engine that will strengthen New England’s seafood industry through cutting-edge research, […]
By William Dee NicholsProfessor of Literacy, Language and Culture, University of Maine And Michelle KearneyProfessor of Literacy, University of Maine The following article was first published in The Conversation, an […]
By Robert A. BallingallAssociate Professor of Political Science The following article was first published in The Conversation, an independent nonprofit news organization that shares faculty expert analysis with a global […]
By Shawn Laatsch Director of the Versant Power Astronomy Center, University of Maine The following article was first published in The Conversation, an independent nonprofit news organization that shares faculty […]
Just outside the doors of Stearns Junior-Senior High School in Millinocket, Maine, students and staff have access to world-class outdoor recreation opportunities: paddling, mountain biking, skiing and, of course, hiking […]
University of Maine researchers have published new findings about how muscles form, why certain muscle diseases develop and why symptoms may not appear until years after muscle degeneration begins. The […]
Battling polar winds, rough seas and sea ice, the University of Maine’s Emmanuel Boss and his colleagues sailed the Southern Ocean to study plankton, microscopic organisms that form the foundation […]
U.S. consumers are willing to pay more for lobster harvested using ropeless fishing technology designed to reduce whale entanglement risks, according to new University of Maine research. A study led […]
In one of the highest honors in American science, the National Academy of Sciences has elected Robert S. Steneck, a longtime University of Maine marine ecologist whose work has reshaped […]
Bacteria are everywhere. They are all around you, inside of you and are you. For every bacterium there are at least ten phages, or bacteria-specific viruses, that can infect them. […]
