College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences

Two University of Maine professors have been elected as Fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for their contributions to science and technology. Joyce Longcore, associate research professor in UMaine’s School of Biology and Ecology, and Susan Brawley, professor of plant biology in the School of Marine Sciences and cooperating professor […]

UMaine student-run greenhouse growing greens for campus dining halls Snowflakes floated toward the frozen ground while University of Maine students snipped salad greens inside a campus greenhouse where the temperature approached a balmy 50 degrees. The greens were a hit with salad bar customers the next day at Maine Marketplace in Memorial Union. Sonja Birthisel, […]

Murray Hall honeybee colony offers important biological lessons In September, 20,000 honeybees took up residence in the foyer of Murray Hall as part of a live exhibition in the School of Biology and Ecology. “Biology is all about life,” says school director Eleanor Groden. “The bees are a representation of life that links people, food […]

New $3.9 million social services project to improve the well-being and safety of the youngest victims of substance abuse In Penobscot and Piscataquis counties, children ages 5 and under whose families are struggling with substance abuse will have improved well-being and safety, and a better chance of staying in or returning to their own homes […]

The medical costs of obesity for the current cohort of children and adolescents in Maine could reach an estimated $1.2 billion over the next 20 years, according to a new study by a University of Maine economist. UMaine professor of economics Todd Gabe’s study suggests that the incidence of obesity is likely to increase from […]

Maine isn’t expected to bear the full brunt of Hurricane Sandy, but the state will still get hit hard, according to the Associated Press and others monitoring the storm. Several University of Maine experts are available for interviews about different aspects of the storm, including coastal damage from hurricanes, climate modeling, and consumer advice on […]

Rhian Waller, a deep-sea and polar ecologist at the University of Maine who studies deep-sea corals, was featured in a video on the website of the National Geographic Society, which helped fund Waller’s recent research trip to Chile. Waller discussed the phenomenon of deep-water emergence, or areas where animals normally found at deep-sea depths are […]

Boosting the activity of a vitamin-sensitive cell adhesion pathway has the potential to counteract the muscle degeneration and reduced mobility caused by muscular dystrophies, according to a research team led by scientists at the University of Maine. The discovery, published in the open access journal PLOS Biology, is particularly important for congenital muscular dystrophies, which […]

University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences associate professor Christopher Gerbi has been selected a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. He participated in the 2012 Chinese-American Symposium, which was held Oct. 12–14 in Irvine, Calif., and will serve as an organizer of the 2014 Chinese-American Symposium to be held in […]

The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, NRG Systems, Inc., AWS Truepower LLC, UMaine’s Physical Oceanography Group, and Leosphere SAS have established a research and development partnership to gather deepwater hub-height wind measurements in the Gulf of Maine. UMaine will design and build a floating system to house a modified WINDCUBE v2 Offshore […]