School of Biology and Ecology

University of Maine zoology Professor Mary S. Tyler has won the 2011 Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize from the Society of Developmental Biology. Tyler’s research in developmental biology includes the area of genetic controls and tissue interactions during embryonic development, which she examines using experimental and histological techniques. She works with digital video in the […]

Kevin Simon is part of a research team at U. Maine that was recently awarded a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation.  The team includes faculty from 4 different academic units on campus:  Ivan Fernandez (PSE, lead PI), Kevin Simon (SBE), Jean MacRae (CIE), Stom Ohno (PSE), and Steve Norton (ERS).  They, along […]

The Gulf of Maine serves as a major songbird migration route for birds making the journey from Canada to South America to escape our long, cold winter season. Rebecca Holberton, Associate Professor of Biology at UMaine, and UMaine Graduate Student Adrienne Leppold have been working in recent years on a research project in association with […]

Former SBE graduate student and botanist Michael Burgess has recently moved to Chestnut Hill to take a position at the Morris Arboretum. Burgess, who just recently received his doctorate from the University of Maine, is excited by the opportunity to work at the arboretum. As well as working on the Pennsylvania Flora Project website, Burgess […]

It’s spring again, and that means UMaine has gone to the birds! As migratory species return to Maine for the summer, changes in these species’ habits may be going unnoticed. Rebecca Holberton, associate professor of biological sciences and wild migratory bird expert, has made herself available to discuss some of these trends and other interesting […]

Are there opportunities awaiting you once you graduate from UMaine? Of course! Beth Choate, a former graduate student in the School of Biology and Ecology, is now doing research for the USDA- Agricultural Research Service in South Dakota. Her current research is focused on the relationship between lady beetles and wheat aphids. Though Beth certainly […]

Congratulations to Chris Tonra, recent recipient of the highly competitive Smithsonian Institute Pre-doctoral Fellowship! Chis is a doctoral student advised by Dr. Rebecca Holberton at the University of Maine. Chris will use the fellowship to spend his final doctoral year working with Dr. Peter Marra at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center and National Zoo, analyzing […]