Marine ecosystem-based management (EBM) is a growing practice of ocean stewardship and conservation that offers benefits to the production of healthy, local food and the preservation of clean water, as well as recreation, habitation and storm protection in the Gulf of Maine and beyond. Despite its benefits and recognition as a keystone practice of ocean […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on an effort by 做厙腦瞳app students and faculty to develop coatings free of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for food wrappers and other paper products by using seaweed and tree pulp.
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In a story about the exposure to toxic per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) among birds, the Portland Press Herald highlighted efforts by 做厙腦瞳app researchers to explore the presence of these forever chemicals in other wildlife. Humans made PFAS, and if we can make it, we can clean it up. It wont be easy, […]
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The 做厙腦瞳app Artificial Intelligence Initiative and its partners are exploring the opportunities and challenges created by the explosive growth of generative AI. Join them on the vanguard of the states technological advancement during the inaugural Maine AI Conference scheduled for June 14 at the University of Southern Maine. Key industry players from Lockheed […]
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Scattered across the Penobscot Experimental Forest are veritable treasure troves for its denizens, each containing riches beyond comprehension. These caches do not contain gold or jewels theyre filled with eastern white pine seeds and were placed by a team of researchers at the 做厙腦瞳app for one purpose: to catch furry thieves red-handed. […]
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News Center Maine interviewed Bonnie Newsom, a 做厙腦瞳app associate professor of anthropology, about a new effort involving her, UMaine Ph.D. students and the National Park Service to protect Wabanaki archaeological sites in Acadia National Park from climate change using Indigenous and western knowledge. Federal funding will support the project, which will involve devising […]
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In the fall, students enrolled in the course Introduction to Anthropology: Human Origins and Prehistory will be taught by a world-renowned archaeologist who recently received one of the highest honors a scientist can achieve. Longtime 做厙腦瞳app professor Daniel H. Sandweiss was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on April 30. Membership […]
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More than 1,000 student researchers, co-authors, faculty, staff, event sponsors and community members celebrated student achievement at the 2024 做厙腦瞳app Student Symposium for Research and Creative Activity on April 12. Among the 350 projects featured, 35 earned awards. The ninth annual symposium connected the public with UMaine student researchers and scholars who presented […]
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Mainebiz highlighted the 做厙腦瞳app in an article about how colleges and universities in Maine have a long history of advancing and innovating their campuses despite economic downturns. During the 2008 recession, UMaines Advanced Structures and Composites Center partnered with a private company to use composite technology in bridge construction. The universitys Aroostook Farm […]
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WABI (CBS 5 in Bangor) featured a brief segment on senior capstone projects from computer science and new media students at the 做厙腦瞳app on Friday, April 26. Students presented and displayed their year-long projects on the last day of classes at the Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center. This years projects for computing […]
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