NSFA Graduate Student Research Awards Competition (online)
NSFA Graduate Student Research Awards Competition (online)
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UMaine-led workshop sets stage for expansion of Research Learning Experiences statewide this year
UMaine-led workshop sets stage for expansion of Research Learning Experiences statewide this year
Read moreSBE alums Kimberly Dao ’14 and Jay Knowlton ’14 are 2022 recipients of the Rising Star Award
Congratulations to UMaine SBE alums Dr. Kim Dao and Jay Knowlton, MPH on receiving the Rising Star Award, and congratulations to all the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award Winners! https://www.umainealumni.com/category-alumni/meet-the-2022-alumni-achievement-award-winners/
Read moreSBE Assistant Professor Danielle Levesque selected for a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
UMaine celebrates highest number of NSF CAREER Award Recipients in 2021
Read moreSBE Assistant Professor Danielle Levesque to give lecture as part of the Versant Astronomy Center Science Lecture Series
SBE Assistant Professor Danielle Levesque will be giving a lecture, “Mammal Hibernation: It’s not all about the cold,” on Thursday, January 13, at 7 pm, as part of the Versant Astronomy Center’s Science Lecture Series: https://bit.ly/3eMFDmQ
Read moreSBE Assistant Professor Danielle Levesque featured on CBC Radio’s annual Quirks and Quarks listener question show
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/jan-1-our-annual-holiday-listener-question-show-1.6295556
Read moreSBE/EES Lecturer Dr. Kate Ruskin leads team studying how mercury exposure affects breeding success of sparrows
Mercury exposure in tidal marshes affecting breeding success of two sparrow species
Read moreFormer UMaine Professor and Chair of Entomology Howard Forsythe Jr. passes away
https://obituaries.bangordailynews.com/obituary/howard-forsythe-jr-1083396419
Read moreSBE Associate Professor Jacquelyn Gill co-authors report arguing Anthropocene should be a geological event, not an epoch
Gill co-authors report arguing Anthropocene should be a geological event, not an epoch
Read moreEES/SBE doctoral candidate Rafa Tasnim’s research on the effects of climate change on Maine’s blueberries featured in Science Friday
How Climate Change Is Giving Maine’s Wild Blueberries The Blues
Read moreEES/SBE graduate student Kit Hamley spearheads the first-ever scientific investigation into prehistoric human presence in the Falkland Islands
UMaine-led research team discovers evidence of prehistoric human activity in Falkland Islands
Read moreEES* Ph.D. student Alessandro Mereghetti analyzes ‘time capsules’ from last ice age
Mereghetti analyzes ‘time capsules’ from last ice age *Ecology and Environmental Science is an interdisciplinary program spanning multiple departments, including the School of Biology and Ecology.
Read moreSBE grad student Greg LeClair’s annual “Big Night” study finds that fewer frogs died by vehicles during spring 2020 than during the season in other recent years
Fewer frogs died by vehicles in the outset of the pandemic, study finds
Read moreCNN features SBE Graduate Student Lance Stasinski’s work on assessing genetic variation from leaf spectra
A recent paper published in New Phytologist by SBE graduate student Lance Stasinski was featured by CNN. Stasinski and his colleagues showed that leaf reflectance spectra – the way different wavelengths of light reflect from a leaf – can be used to accurately detect populations and the genomic ancestry […]
Read moreUMaine News, Bangor Daily News write about SBE Assistant Professor Angela Mech’s New Spruce Budworm Testing Lab
Per UMaine News, Mech’s New Spruce Budworm Testing Lab at UMaine is critical to mitigating impact of destructive insect. The Bangor Daily News has also featured a story on the invasive pest and the new testing lab.
Read moreSBE Assistant Professor of Forest Entomology Angela Mech interviewed on The Maine Question
S5E1: How do we protect our forests from invasive species?
Read more2022 MSF – Call for Ideas!
We’re happy to share that our friends at the Maine Science Festival are planning the return of the Festival in 2022. See below for more details: 2022 MSF – Call for Ideas! We have begun planning for the in-person return of the Maine Science Festival in March 16-20, 2022, as long as it is […]
Read moreWABI’s Owen Kingsley airs coverage of last weekend’s SBE BioBlitz
View the video at https://www.wabi.tv/2021/09/18/umaine-students-host-bioblitz-campus-discover-animal-plant-life/ UMaine students host BioBlitz on campus to discover animal and plant life By Owen Kingsley Published: Sep. 18, 2021 at 7:29 PM EDT|Updated: Sep. 18, 2021 at 7:33 PM EDT ORONO, Maine (WABI) – Did you know many different species live on the UMaine campus? Students and members of the community have […]
Read moreSBE Lecturer Dr. Julia McGuire receives Davis Educational Foundation funding in recognition of her innovative work in coordinating and teaching BIO 100 labs
The University of Maine was awarded a $25,000 Presidential Grant by the Davis Educational Foundation in the summer of 2021 to support initiatives in preparation for fall teaching — Teaching Labs Remotely and a Faculty Ambassador Program. Dr. McGuire’s hard work to develop innovative approaches to teaching the BIO 100 lab remotely this fall was […]
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