News and Announcements
Grad student Greg LeClair featured in New York Times article about salamanders
With the World on Pause, Salamanders Own the Road
Read moreSBE Assistant Professor Allison Gardner Seeks To Control Disease-Transmitting Blacklegged Ticks
Disease-transmitting blacklegged ticks invading new areas are a threat to the health of people and animals and are a burden on the economy. Allison Gardner will seek to isolate ecosystem factors — including temperature and snow pack — that inhibit their geographic spread and that lead to methods to control them during vulnerable life stages […]
Read moreSouthern Coastal Forest Landowners Needed for Maine Forest Tick Survey
The Maine Forest Tick Survey based at UMaine seeks volunteer landowners with 10–1,000 wooded acres in Androscoggin, Cumberland, Hancock, Knox, Kennebec, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo and York counties. More information.
Read moreBiology major Katie Tims featured in article about research on Maine’s food waste challenges
Undergraduate Biology student Katie Tims is featured in an article recently posted by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainable Solutions. The article, “Helping Maine Businesses Find Food Waste Solutions” focuses on Katie’s work researching potential solutions for reducing food waste in Maine, keeping organics out of landfills, and addressing food insecurity. Congratulations, Katie!
Read moreWe missed you for Accepted Student Days, so we’ve made this video as a virtual visit
Since we couldn’t host in-person Accepted Student Days this year, the School of Biology and Ecology created this informational video for those students and families who would have attended, or anyone just interested in learning more about SBE at UMaine, including student life here and tips for student success.
Read morePh.D. Student Kit Hamley and Master’s Student Sara McBride win 2020 Edith Patch Awards
Congratulations to Kit Hamley, SBE/CCI Ph.D. student, and Sara McBride, EES M.S. student, winners of the 2020 Edith Patch Award!
Read moreCaleigh Charlebois awarded the Goldwater Scholarship
Congratulations to Caleigh Charlebois, an NSFA junior in Zoology and Professional Writing and Honors student! Caleigh has been awarded the Goldwater Scholarship. This $7,500 award is given to undergraduate sophomores or juniors with strong research experience who plan to continue their careers with a Ph.D. Read the press release here.
Read moreUMaine student Cass Clemmer launches online group to help Mainers get through this pandemic
Cass Clemmer, an Orono woman with a background in public health education, last Friday started the Maine Coronavirus Community Assistance Facebook page. For more information, please read the Bangor Daily News story. The Facebook group can be found at Maine Coronavirus Community Assistance.
Read moreSpring Seminars have been cancelled for the rest of this semester
Due to COVID-19 precautions and the University of Maine campuses transitioning to online-only for the spring, the rest of the 2020 Spring Seminars have been cancelled. We are hoping to reschedule as many as possible for future semesters. Please check back for any future updates to this status. Thank you.
Read moreUPDATE: Accepted Student Days have been cancelled for the Spring Semester
Unfortunately, due to precautions in light of COVID-19, Accepted Student Days have been cancelled for the Spring Semester (the events for NSFA/SBE were scheduled for 3/13 and 4/3). We will reach out to accepted students in the near future, and will post updates as we have them.
Read moreUMaine and UMM Community Health Update (from the UMaine President’s Office)
Per President Joan Ferrini-Mundy’s email sent at 4:20 pm on 3/11/20: “Dear colleagues, students and community members at the University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias: “Today, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) a pandemic, prompting the University of Maine System to transition to remote instruction for classes on all campuses […]
Read moreDr. Andrei Alyokhin speaking this Friday, March 13, for the SBE Seminar Series
Please join us in 102 Murray Hall this Friday, March 13th at 3:10 pm for Dr. Andrei Alyokhin’s rescheduled talk, Of Mites and Men: Spirotetramat, Lysenko, and Frida Kahlo. For our Spring Seminar Schedule, please visit the SBE Seminars page.
Read moreAccepted Student Days for NSFA are coming up, March 13 and April 3
We sure hope to see you here! To register, visit UMaine Undergraduate Admissions.
Read moreDr. Jess Vickruck speaking Friday, March 6 in the SBE Seminar Series
This Friday, March 6, at 3:10 pm in Murray Hall, UMaine, Dr. Jess Vickruck will give a seminar titled “Nest site availability influences community structure, interspecific competition and evolution in wild bees.” SBE Seminar Series
Read moreUMaine participants in the 5 Minute Genius talks: from electric fat to hibernation in tropics
Four people affiliated with UMaine are among the presenters on March 20 at the Bangor Arts Exchange, including SBE Assistant Professor Danielle Levesque and Postdoctoral Research Associate Magdalena Blaszkiewicz. More on this at UMaine News.
Read moreCan studying extinct species prepare us for the future? The Maine Question with paleoecologist Jacquelyn Gill
Listen to The Maine Question podcast, as Associate Professor Jacquelyn Gill discusses how and why some species have gone extinct while others have survived and what it means for how we and our planet adapt to the rapidly changing world we find ourselves in.
Read moreAssistant Professor Jared Talbot nominated for the Chi-Bin Chien Award
Assistant Professor Jared Talbot has been nominated for the Chi-Bin Chien Award, the new investigator award for the International Zebrafish Society. The award recognizes outstanding graduate students, postdoctoral trainees, or recently-appointed faculty members from any country who have made significant contributions to the field of zebrafish research and have exhibited the generosity and openness that […]
Read moreNSFA Graduate Student Research Awards Competition
Please join us to support NSFA and learn about some of the research graduate students are doing, tomorrow (Wednesday, February 26) 10 am – 2 pm in 57 Stodder Hall, here at UMaine: 2020 Graduate Student Research Awards Competition Flyer
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