SBE Alum Brittany Schappach speaking at the Jumping Worm and Browntail Moth Webinar hosted by BPL
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Chris Nelson, Fischer Powell, Jay Kim, Brenda Jones, and Kit Carpenter spiffed up the several beds of the Maine Rare Plants Garden around Murray Hall, and tidied up the pollinator garden in the courtyard, doing valiant battle with invasive coltsfoot. The gardens look great!
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UMaine names two 2024 valedictorians, salutatorian
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Meet the 2024 Outstanding Graduating Students
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UMaine names 2024 Presidential Award recipients
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UMaine faculty and students to present at Maine Sustainability and Water Conference
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Angela Mech will be giving a talk on Monday, April 1 at the Mitchell Center in Norman Smith Hall: “The Menacing Moth of Maine: Understanding browntail moth and their outbreaks” Since 2015, the browntail moth outbreak in Maine has left residents and visitors alike itching for a solution. Despite its presence in Maine for over […]
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https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/03/18/the-hidden-value-of-herbariums
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Gill interviewed by Nature on concept of using the term ‘Anthropocene’
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UMaine faculty, staff and students participating in 2024 Maine Science Festival
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Tick lab coordinator Dill interviewed by media on deer tick presence
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Spring into science with return of Maine Big Night
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The New York Times Magazine interviewed Jacquelyn Gill, an associate professor of terrestrial paleoecology at the University of Maine, on controversy surrounding the Younger Dryas impact theory, which claims that a comet struck the Earth 12,900 years ago and caused a sudden cooling widespread death among large, ancient mammals. Gill said she was doubtful of it […]
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Science Friday interviews Zhang on benefits of adding biochar to soil
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“This year’s entries did a great job of incorporating art and science to [create something] greater than the sum of their parts,” Meade says. In the past, she explains, “some entries have incredible research but the dance component feels like an afterthought, or we might get some incredible dance performance, but I’m not sure what […]
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From pests to pine health, $1.4M allows new forest research to take root
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The Scientist interviews UMaine professor on remote work
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UMaine study reveals how to turn the tide on scallop-rearing challenges
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UMaine center amplifies the power of environmental genetics
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Recently-released book Our Maine : Exploring its Rich Natural Heritage, from Down East Books, features chapters by SBE Associate Professor Hamish Greig and Professor Emeritus Frank Drummond, as well as other contributions from cooperating faculty and those within the College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences (formerly the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture). […]
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