School of Biology and Ecology

Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie will complete a project titled, “Conservation Challenges for Tundra Refugia under Climate Change: A Paleoecological Perspective on Subalpine and Alpine Vegetation in Maine” under the academic mentorship of Dr. Jacquelyn Gill at University of Maine and in partnership with Dr. Abe Miller-Rushing at the National Park Service. The Smith Fellowship, the nation’s […]

This is a reprint from the UMaine News feed ( January 23, 2017). Click here to see the original. For tens of thousands of years, the warm, sticky natural asphalt that occasionally bubbled to the Earth’s surface in the area now called Los Angeles was a death sentence for some ice age animals. Woolly mammoths, […]

This is a reprint from the UMaine News feed ( January 23, 2017). Click here to see the original. After one of Michelle Smith’s recent genetics classes at the University of Maine, several students approached her to compliment the lesson. “I wish that happened to me every time I teach a class,” says Smith, an […]

School of Biology and Ecology Spring Seminar Series presents: “Inferring biotic interactions over the late Quaternary, and implications for the future” by Dr. Melissa Pardi from the University of New Hampshire.  Friday, February 3, 2017 at 3:15 p.m. in 107 Norman Smith Hall. For information, please contact Dr. Danielle Levesque (danielle.l.levesque@maine.edu, 207-581-2511). All are welcome! Refreshments […]

School of Biology and Ecology Spring Seminar Series presents: SBE FACULTY RESEARCH SHOWCASE 2017 Friday, January 20, 2017 at 3:15 p.m. in 107 Norman Smith Hall. For information, please contact Dr. Danielle Levesque (danielle.l.levesque@maine.edu, 207-581-2511). All are welcome! Refreshments served at 3:00 p.m. If you are a person with a disability and need an accommodation to […]

India Stewart is featured in UMaine Today as one of the participants of the Maine Track Early Assurance Program, which guarantees students a future spot at Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) while they are still early in their University of Maine undergraduate career. Stewart, a graduate of Bucksport High School, received her degree in […]

Kimberly Dao, who graduated with a degree in Biology from the University of Maine in 2014, has a feature article dedicated to her in the latest issue of UMaine Today. Kim is currently a student at Tufts University School of Medicine, where she was accepted after applying to the Maine Track Early Assurance Program. Kim […]

Jessica Haghkerdar’s chocolate cream log with merengue mushrooms won our holiday baking contest. Congratulations!!!

Six faculty members in SBE (Karen Pelletreau, Farahad Dastoor, Hamish Greig, Robert Northington, Brian Olsen, and Michelle Smith) are co-authors on a recent publication about teaching the Central Dogma, which is a core concept of biology. The UMaine faculty led a collaboration with faculty from the University of Georgia, University of Colorado-Boulder, University of South […]

The Ellen Keough Hodosh, PhD, Graduate Fellowship Fund was established in 2016 in the University of Maine Foundation for the benefit of the University of Maine, Orono, Maine, with a gift from Ralph J. Hodosh in loving memory of his wife, Ellen Keough Hodosh. Ralph and Ellen were first generation college students, met at the […]

Noelle Leon-Palmer, a recent School of Biology and Ecology graduate, was interviewed for a feature in UMaine Today. Noelle discusses her honors thesis about the physiology, neurobiology, and endocrinology of love, playing on the University of Maine women’s soccer team, and her upcoming position as an honors associate in the Honors College. Click here to […]

The Drummond lab is profiled in this UMaine Today feature, including discussions about Dr. Frank Drummond’s decades of bee research, colony collapse disorder, and current ongoing research by the many students and technicians involved with the lab. Click here to read the full feature at UMaine Today.    

Research from Dr. Brian Olsen’s lab, in conjunction with the Saltmarsh Habitat & Avian Research Program (SHARP), shows that the saltmarsh sparrow population in Maine has decreased nearly 11 percent annually since 1998. The AP version of the article was distributed by ABC News, the Washington Post, and many others. Click here to read details […]

Catherine (Kit) Hamley, a graduate student under School of Biology and Ecology professor, Jacquelyn Gill, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to continue her research in Quaternary studies while pursuing a doctorate degree through the Ecology and Environmental Sciences Program. Hamley’s work to date has focused on the Falkland Islands where […]

School of Biology and Ecology student, Elizabeth Wood of Catlett, Virginia, has been named the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture at the University of Maine. Wood is an honors student majoring in biology with a pre-med concentration, and a minor in chemistry. She is a member of UMaine’s […]

SBE Academic Awards Highest GPA in a major within the School First Year Katherine Evans Lucia Guarnieri Emily Gagne Sophomore Jackson Foley Callie Greco Jacqueline Lambert Junior Sigrid Koizar Kaitlin Clark Haley Netherton Senior Elizabeth Wood Erik Holmsen School of Biology & Ecology Academic Achievement Award Awarded to the graduating senior having the highest GPA […]

Hamish Greig has received a Maine Sea Grant to study Atlantic Salmon. Click here to read the full story. Maine Sea Grant awards funds for three UMaine research projects  

Chris Baker, a postdoc from the Jackson Laboratory, and Michelle Smith, and assistant professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and member of the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education, were awarded a PALM fellowship from the Genetics Society of America. This is the first year the PALM fellowship has been awarded, and […]

   Living in one place, studying one central ecosystem, working with a species that can be explained in one sentence…these things, among many others, will likely never play a role in Danielle Levesque’s research in the mammalian world. Ever since discovering in her undergraduate years that she did not need to be a vet to […]

We will meet: This & Every Thursday @ 11:00 – 12:15 in centrally located  101 Norman Smith Hall Intended for students, faculty, and staff! This spring, faculty from Biology & Ecology, Economics, and Wildlife Ecology will again offer a weekly discussion group open to all who are interested.  Largely the group will cover three themes across both non-human and human systems: […]