Through the month of December, Ana had the privilege of working with Dr. Frank van Breukelen and his lab at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, studying tenrecs. Read more about her lab exchange here.

University of Maine professor of biological sciences Brian McGill, whose research focuses on modeling large-scale ecology and global change, has been named one of the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers worldwide, according to the Web of Science Group. Read the full story here.

Three creative ornament contest entries graced this year’s SBE Holiday Tree in Murray Hall. Entries had to be created only out of materials available in each team’s lab. Danielle Levesque’s lab had the winning ornament with their flying squirrel trap. They also put a homemade flying squirrel sugar cookie on the tree. This one was […]

SBE’s own Jasmine Saros was recently named a Fellow by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.  She was named Fellow due to her dedicated work in “[reconstructing] past environmental conditions in lakes,” and her “contributions to the association and to aquatic sciences.”  You can read more here! Published December 13, 2019.

The Fall 2019 seminar series has been released.  You can view it here for more information. Posted September 20, 2019.

The National Science Foundation EPSCoR recently awarded the University of Maine and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (along with other collaborators and organizations) a $20 million grant to help fund the Maine Environmental DNA Initiative (or Maine-eDNA).  Maine-eDNA hopes to position Maine as “a national leader in the understanding and sustainable use of coastal ecosystems,” […]

Ecology and Environmental Sciences Ph. D student, Ana Breit, is currently in Borneo for the summer to study how small tropical mammals regulate their body temperature.  Her research hopes to “inform people about the physiology of these animals” for use in models on how climate change could affect them.  You can read more about Breit […]

The 2019 School of Biology and Ecology student award recipients have been posted.  You can find the awardees and scholarship recipients here! Published June 24, 2019.

SBE faculty, Kristy Townsend and Jasmine Saros, were awarded Faculty Mentor Impact Awards this May for their work in mentoring students in and out of class and lab time.  You can read about the other winners here. Published June 14, 2019.

Biology undergrad, Ana Eliza Souza Cunha, was recently named the University of Maine salutatorian and Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture.  You can read more about Souza Cunha, her work, and her accomplishments on the University of Maine’s blog here. Published May 7th, 2019.

UMaine undergraduate Courtney Hatton will be graduating this May after 11 years of obstacles in her way to her degree.  Despite being confronted with years of hardship as she worked to earn her degree in biology, she persevered to achieve her academic goals.  You can read her full story here. Published April 19, 2019.

Dr. Kate Ruskin – lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Sciences – has been awarded a fellowship to conduct research in Acadia National Park by the Second Century Stewardship for 2019.  You can find more information about this award here. Published April 19, 2019.

Congratulations to Andrei Alyokhin and Frank Drummond!  Alyokhin and Drummond both received prestigious awards from the Entomological Society of America.  Alyokhin was awarded the Entomological Society of America, Eastern Branch Distinguished Award in Extension.  Drummond was awarded the Entomological Society of America, Eastern Branch Distinguished Award for Teaching.  These awards are given to entomologists who […]

UMaine’s Brian Olsen recently testified during the debate over the specific chickadee that should be Maine’s official state bird – a heated debate over the Black Capped Chickadee or the Boreal Chickadee.  You can listen to piece, or read the transcript here! Published March 1, 2019.

The Spring 2019 seminar series has been released.  You can view it here for more information. Published Jan. 30, 2019.

Assistant Professor of Mammology and Mammalian Health, Danielle Levesque, was recently interviewed by the Journal of Experimental Biology, where she talks about how she got to where she is today.  To learn more about Danielle Levesque, you can find the interview – “Early-career researchers: an interview with Danielle Levesque” – here. Published Jan. 7, 2019.

Congratulations to assistant professor Jacquelyn Gill for her appointment to the Governing Board of the Ecological Society of America (ESA)!  Jacquelyn was appointed to the board for the 2019-2021 term.  Read more about the position and others elected on the ESA’s blog post here. Published Nov. 13, 2018.

Congratulations to Kristy Townsend, assistant professor of neurobiology, who recently won an NSF CAREER Award in the form of a $1 million grant for her research project, Novel Mechanisms of Adult Neurogenesis!  The aim of the project is to increase access to biomedical programs and encourage student research – first through senior capstone research projects, […]

Congratulations to Jacquelyn Gill, assistant professor of paleoecology and plant ecology, who has recently won an NSF CAREER Award for $800,000 for her research project, Environmental Change and Extinction on the Mammoth Steppe!  This project aims to use data collected to build a virtual reality to act as a teaching device and help students gain […]

These are the winners for the School of Biology and Ecology’s Student Academic awards for 2018. Published Jun. 13, 2018.