News and Announcements Archives - School of Biology and Ecology

WABI features UMaine experts, including Dr. Angela Mech of SBE, during the National Invasive Species Awareness Week

https://umaine.edu/news/2026/02/wabi-features-umaine-experts-during-the-national-invasive-species-awareness-week

Dr. Angela Mech wins prestigious teaching award

The Entomological Society of America (Eastern Branch) has awarded Dr. Angela Mech the EB Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching. https://www.entsoc.org/membership/branches/eastern/awards

Dr. Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall awarded title of Associate Director Emerita of Biology and Ecology

Renewed NIH grant to expand UMaine’s impact on biotech workforce

UMaine research highlights how PFAS uptake differs among crops

Renewed NIH grant to expand UMaine’s impact on biotech workforce

UMaine amplifies biomedical research with expanded zebrafish lab

UMaine co-hosts third annual statewide biomedical research symposium, registration closing soon

Dr. Allison Gardner receives Entomological Society of America’s Early Career Innovation Award

Read the full article here: https://entsoc.org/news/press-releases/2025-awards Early Career Innovation Award This award honors young professionals working within the field of entomology who have demonstrated innovation through contributions within any area of specialization (research, teaching, extension, product development, public service, etc.). Allison GardnerUniversity of Maine Allison Gardner, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School of […]

UMaine Extension Tick Lab researchers confirm presence of invasive Asian longhorned tick in Maine

Spectrum interviews Dill on threat of a mosquito-borne illness in wild birds

UMaine Extension’s Tick Lab releases research showing elevated activity in midcoast counties

BBC interviews McGill on repercussions of a 1990s biosphere experiment

BBC interviewed Brian McGill, professor of ecological modeling at the University of Maine, on the Biosphere 2 experiment. Conducted in the 1990s, a small team tried to survive in a hermetically sealed space containing replicas of Earth’s ecosystems. McGill suggested the biosphere’s pollinators may have died off because the glass enclosure blocked ultraviolet light, which the […]

Dr. Matthew Chatfield’s lab featured on WABI TV

$250,000 in new philanthropic funding announced to support UMaine graduate students affected by reductions of federal research grants

Congrats to Daniela Chavez de Paz Solis and Alexandria Banou Morgan for being recognized as 2025 Outstanding Graduating Students

Angela Mech discusses browntail moth removal with News Center

News Center Maine featured Angela Mech, assistant professor of forest entomology at the University of Maine, to discuss long-term solutions to remove brown tail moth populations. “I just hope that we can find ways to reduce any of those impacts as much as possible.” Said Mech.

Science News talks with Jacquelyn Gill on ‘wooly mice’

Science News spoke with University of Maine professor of terrestrial paleoecology Jacquelyn Gill on an experiment to de-extinct the wooly mammoth by breeding mice. “I understand why someone would be compelled to see a mammoth,” Gill said. “I’ve never seen my study system in person, right? It only exists in my mind’s eye, because I study […]

The Bellingham Herald features James Dill on how to safely remove ticks

The Bellingham Herald highlighted a University of Maine Cooperative Extension video featuring James Dill, extension associate program administrator, pest management: extension professor, on how to safely remove ticks.

Jacquelyn Gill featured in national news on the genetic modification of gray wolves

Jacquelyn Gill, professor of terrestrial paleoecology, was featured in reports from Science.org, Scientific American, Science News, The Next Web and Cyber News on Colossal Biosciences’s genetic modification of gray wolf pups to resemble the dire wolf, an extinct species. “[The pups] don’t have any traits that would allow us to understand the dire wolf any better than we did yesterday,” Gill said, […]