Rising Tide Center

UMaine News Release, April 27, 2016 – Kimberley Rain Miner, a PhD candidate in Earth and Climate Sciences has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant to Canada in geosciences. Read the full story here.

UMaine News Release, April 14, 2016 – The ADVANCE Rising Tide Center has announced that Professor of Marine Science Rebecca Van Beneden and Professor of Human Nutrition Adrienne White will be honored with 2016 Career Recognition Awards. Read more about the awards and these outstanding faculty here.

UMaine News Release, March 23, 2016 – Six UMaine women faculty will be promoted or tenured following approval by the Board of Trustees last month. Read the full story, and find a list of those approved for promotion and tenure, here.

The ADVANCE Rising Tide Center is pleased to welcome Dr. Meredith Hastings of Brown University as the keynote speaker at the 5-year anniversary celebration of the Rising Tide Center on March 24. Hastings is a co-founder of the Earth Science Women’s Network, recipeint of an NSF Career Award, and was named one of the 100 […]

UMaine News Release, Feb 29, 2016 – Catherine Schmitt, communications director for the Maine Sea Grant College Program talked to outdoors editor, John Holyoke, about her book, “The President’s Salmon: Restoring the King of Fish and Its Home Waters” in a recent Bangor Daily News feature. Read more, and watch a video of Schmitt’s interview, here.

UMaine News Release, Feb. 11, 2016 – Linda Silka, senior fellow at the George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, was mentioned in a Free Press article highlighting new collaborations between transportation officials, engineers and climatologists to address changes in sea level that will affect roads, bridges and other transportation infrastructure. Read the full story here.

UMaine News Release, Feb. 1, 2016 – The Collegiate Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at the University of Maine was awarded an Outstanding Collegiate Section Award at the Silver Level at the SWE Conference awards banquet in Nashville in October 2015.  The award recognizes collegiate sections that are active in meeting SWE’s strategic goals of professional […]

UMaine News Release, Jan. 29, 2016 – Professor Rhian Waller and students Ashley Rossin and Elise Hartill have been collecting corals in the cold water of Alaska’s Tracy Arm Fjord. Read the full story here.

UMaine News Release, Jan. 19, 2016 – Astronaut and Caribou native Jessica Meir will speak to schoolchildren and the general public on Jan. 27 at the Collins Center for the Arts. This presentation, which is sponsored by the Challenger Learning Center of Maine, is offered in observance of the 3oth anniversary of the Challenger Space Shuttle’s […]

UMaine News Release, Jan 12, 2016 – Associate Professor of New Media Joline Blais was quoted in a National Geographic article about the benefits of cohousing, including energy efficiency and achieving a sense of community. Read the National Geographic article here.