SBE Associate Professor Jacquelyn Gill co-authors editorial on mandating vaccines at UMaine

https://www.centralmaine.com/2021/08/02/scholars-strategy-network-umaine-must-mandate-vaccination/?fbclid=IwAR2hWtMdSRg13ZU2uIt2spxqxcbsOyq5ievYvV-QqqwIQ5j8mVEdxGum1s0

Study by SBE Assistant Professor Allison Gardner, SFA Professor Jessica Leahy, and EES Master’s alum Christine Conte links active forest management to reduced tick populations

Study links active forest management to reduced tick populations

SBE Professor Emeritus Eleanor Groden and UMaine colleagues publish research on using bacteria from nematodes to kill fire ants

Bacteria from nematodes could be used to kill fire ants, UMaine research reveals

SBE Assistant Professor Yongjiang “John” Zhang part of UMaine-led study on predicting water stress in wild blueberry fields

Imaging spectroscopy can predict water stress in wild blueberry fields, UMaine-led study reveals

Bangor Daily News features SBE Assistant Professor Angela Mech’s research on combatting browntail moth outbreaks

Scientists want to try confusing browntail moths with arousing chemicals to end future outbreaks

Professor Mike Kinnison leads effort to develop app for recording research lab use during the pandemic

Kinnison leads effort to develop app for recording research lab use during the pandemic

Ann Dieffenbacher-Krall named Associate Director for SBE

Dieffenbacher-Krall named Associate Director

Congratulations SBE 2021 Graduates!

UMaine recognizes SBE Associate Professor Len Kass and Assistant Scientist Judy Collins for 35 years of service

Among the people that UMaine is recognizing this year for 35 years of service are Associate Professor Len Kass and Assistant Scientist Judy Collins. Congratulations to them both – we are happy to have them on our SBE team!

Lynn Atkins receives 2021 Outstanding Teaching Award

Lynn Atkins, M.S., CAGS: Outstanding Teaching Award

Bangor Daily News writes about SBE Ph.D. student Rafa Tasnim’s research

Maine’s blueberry barrens are warming faster than the rest of the state, study finds

Maine Forest Tick Survey reports first findings in nine southern and coastal counties, seeks additional citizen scientists

EES Ph.D. student Madeleine Landrum to explore history of forests to inform today’s management

Landrum to explore history of forests to inform today’s management

Read the Report on UMaine’s Browntail Moth Research

The browntail moth has become a very serious problem for many communities in southern, midcoast and central Maine over the past several years as this insect has reached populations levels that we have not seen in 80 to 100 years. Researchers at the University of Maine have teamed up with entomologists in the Maine State […]

SBE’s Spring Seminar Series to feature science author Carl Zimmer

SBE hosts a weekly seminar series throughout the academic year, and this year we have continued to do so, despite COVID-19. This semester features a special guest speaker, famed science author Carl Zimmer, co-sponsored by the UMaine Institute of Medicine. Carl Zimmer will be speaking via Zoom on April 9 at 2 pm. For Zoom […]

SBE Assistant Professor Han Tan’s research featured by News Center Maine

UMaine professors trying to develop potato varieties using new DNA-based tools ORONO, Maine — Two professors at the University of Maine in Orono are working on breeding new potato varieties. Professor of crop ecology and management in the School of Food and Agriculture, Dr. Greg Porter, and assistant professor of plant genetics with the School […]