Editor’s note: This story was updated March 31, 2023. The University of Maine has received a $11.3 million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support interdisciplinary biomedical research. The COBRE award will focus on research about the mechanisms that regulate cellular behavior in response to cues from […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that Bangor school leaders and teachers are setting goals after evaluation research by the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development that showed some Bangor students experience school differently based on their gender, race, socioeconomic status and whether they require additional academic support.
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a talk, “Rural Maine Feels the Heat,” on Monday, April 10 at 3 p.m. Speaker Brian McGill, professor at the Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and the School of Biology and Ecology at the University of Maine, will present […]
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News Center Maine reported on a project led by UMaine engineering professor Masoud Rais-Rohani and sponsored by the U.S. Army DEVCOM Soldier Center that aims to create deployable structures to help shelter people in a short amount of time. “[The] ultimate goal is to see it mass produced, mainly for humanitarian aid operations,” Rais-Rohani said.
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Rafa Tasnim, Ph.D. candidate in ecology and environmental sciences, conducted a Q&A with Rachel Schattman, assistant professor sustainable agriculture at the School of Food and Agriculture, for Frontiers in Science News. They discussed accessibility to clean water and sanitation through the lens of Schattman’s research expertise and perspectives on sustainable agriculture and climate change.
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A number of University of Maine students and faculty members will present at the 2023 Maine Sustainability and Water Conference at the Augusta Civic Center on March 30. UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions is the lead organizer of the event. For more information and to register, visit the event webpage. Session […]
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Phys.org reported on a new University of Maine study that suggests the personal protective factors of resilience and compassion satisfaction, and the professional factor of working in a positive school climate are key to mitigating burnout among teachers.
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Signs of the Season, a program of the Maine Sea Grant and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, will offer free in-person trainings on documenting the signs of spring and contributing to regional research throughout March and April. Focusing on 22 indicator species including robins, loons, lilacs, forsythia, maple trees and frogs, participants will learn […]
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A new study from two University of Maine researchers suggests that the personal protective factors of resilience and compassion satisfaction, and the professional factor of working in a positive school climate are key to mitigating burnout among teachers. Compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress and burnout have long been identified as commonplace in so-called helping professions […]
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New Scientist featured the research of Victor Ortega Jiménez, assistant professor of integrative avian biology and biomechanics, about how jumping parasitic worms use static electricity to hit their targets.
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