SBE Assistant Professors Yongjiang “John” Zhang and José “Dudu” Meireles among those whose projects were selected for funding from the University of Maine System Research Reinvestment Fund (RRF)

Maine Day project – a rare plants garden in Murray Hall

Nineteen students, staff, and faculty joined forces on Maine Day to create a Maine Rare Plants Garden in the Murray Hall Courtyard and around the building. This is a joint project of the Biology Club and Horticulture Club, made possible with generous support from the Alton ’38 and Adelaide Hamm Campus Activity Fund and the […]

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SBE/EES Ph.D. student Griffin Dill speaks to WMTW about rare tick-borne illness

From UMaine News: WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) interviewed Griffin Dill, University of Maine Tick Lab coordinator, after the Maine CDC confirmed a Waldo County resident died after contracting Powassan virus. “It is an exceptionally serious tick-borne illness. Fortunately, it’s also an exceptionally rare illness. Historically, studies in Maine show that (there are) fairly low […]

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