External grants awarded

>$50,000

Project Title Principal Investigator Sponsor Name Award Amount
2025 February Grant Report
Accelerating Maine’s Bioeconomy through Innovation, Acceleration, and Commercialization Renee Kelly
Colleen Walker
James Beaupre
Anthony Durante
Maine Technology Institute
US Treasury Department
$500,000
CMS Phase 2 prototype development of a scalable MRV framework that integrates inventory, remote sensing, and landscape modeling to support stakeholder decision-making for carbon in managed forests Daniel Hayes
Adam Daigneault
Xinyuan Wei
Aaron Weiskittel
National Aeronautics & Space Administration $341,629
Ecosystem responses to the interacting forces of bridge improvements and beavers Christina Murphy
Joseph Zydlewski
Penobscot Nation $89,584
Evaluating the Performance Atlantic Cod Management that Ranges in the Alignment between Biological and Fisheries Management Units Lisa Kerr Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
US Dept of Commerce
$153,010
Interdisciplinary Graduate Training for Climate-Smart Agriculture Using Innovative Climate Change Mitigation Techniques Yongjiang Zhang
Ling Li
Qing Jin
Vikas Dhiman
Ali Abedi
Ankit Singh
Shane O’Neill
Qiujie Zheng
Adam Daigneault
Jessica Leahy
Jianjun Hao
US Dept of Agriculture $259,000
Maine Families-Waldo October 1, 2024 – September 30, 2026 Melanie Bryan Maine Children’s Trust
ME Dept of Health and Human Services
$965,689
Multiscale anisotropy analysis of breast tissue subtypes from mammography and pathology Andre Khalil US Dept of Health & Human Services $440,561
New England I-Corps Hub John Volin
Renee Kelly
Michael Mason
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
National Science Foundation
$150,977
Public Health Opioid Response (formerly Naloxone Distribution for Public Health Opioid Response) Marcella Sorg
Jamie Wren
ME Dept of Health and Human Services
US Dept of Health & Human Services
$984,761
Recruitment building blocks: Understanding lobster growth and climate effects during the first year Michelle Staudinger
Amalia Harrington
ME DEPT of Marine Resources
US Dept of Commerce
$87,734
Supports for AARP Livable/Maine Patricia Oh American Association of Retired Persons $218,452

Contact: research@maine.edu

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