School of Biology and Ecology

LeClair featured on ‘Maine Calling’ about protecting wildlife in road crossings

https://www.foxbangor.com/news/local/maine-experts-talk-about-tick-season-safety/article_16c51608-e92d-11ed-9022-63a7638e89b4.html

Dill speaks to PPH about ticks reemerging

UMaine 2023 commencement ceremonies are May 5–6

Plants take root at the Wyman’s Wild Blueberry Research and Innovation Center

CUGR Announces Summer 2023 Fellowship Awardees

Gill featured on ‘Sustain What?’ podcast

It’s a Maine Day of service on campus – thank you to all of our volunteers who helped clean up the Murray Courtyard! They also discovered they were being supervised by a very well-camouflaged frog. We aren’t quite sure how it made its way in there (it’d have to scale a three-story building, hop across […]

Dill speaks to Wall Street Journal about growth of tick-borne disease

UMaine study shines light on proteins that clean out trash in neurons

ITCH is a new community science tick project taking place across New England. Researchers at the University of Maine are seeking Maine residents to take part in an online survey regarding attitudes and practices about ticks on their properties.  We are also seeking Penobscot County residents willing to let researchers collect ticks on their properties […]

UMaine faculty, student to present with MSF headliner event April 8 and 13

UMaine showcases research and creativity during Maine Impact Week

Sierra Magazine featured an essay entitled “The Asteroid and the Fern” that Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology and plant ecology with the University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology and Climate Change Institute, wrote for the collection “Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story From Despair to Possibility” edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma […]

https://www.pnas.org/post/podcast/rise-bioinspired-robots  

Talk – Rural Maine Feels the Heat

UMaine Student Symposium for Research and Creative Activity set for April 14

UMaine awarded $11.3 million from NIH to support biomedical research

Health quotes Dill in article about rise of Babesiosis

Thirty-one faculty members receive tenure and/or promotion Julia McGuire also has been awarded tenure, but through a different process, so her name was not in the list in the attached article. Congratulations, Julia and John!