College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences

The field of nanoscience has shown that the smallest of particles are sometimes the strongest. Research into these infinitesimal objects – whose dimensions range from a few nanometers to less than 100 nanometers; by comparison, a sheet of paper has a thickness of 100,000 nanometers – has also shown these particles are well-suited for use […]

University of Maine nutritionists are available to offer advice for parents and guardians looking to pack healthy — and appealing — lunchboxes for children and adolescents, and to identify the benefits of school-prepared meals and snacks. Mary Ellen Camire, a fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists and professor of food science and human nutrition, […]

Using the latest in optical sensor technology, marine scientists from the University of Maine and the University of Washington have achieved unprecedented documentation of a critical phenomenon that occurs during the spring phytoplankton blooms in the North Atlantic that feeds the deep ocean and contributes to carbon dioxide sequestering. During what’s called an aggregate flux […]

The effects of low levels of arsenic — like those in drinking water — on a healthy innate immune response and one compromised by the gene mutation that causes cystic fibrosis will be the focus of research at the University of Maine funded by a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The […]

It is widely held that coral bleaching occurs when temperatures and solar radiation are high, overwhelming antioxidant defenses in the algal endosymbionts and their coral hosts. Little understood are the biological mechanisms underlying such destabilization under stressful conditions. An international research team led by marine biologist Malcolm Shick and chemical oceanographer Mark Wells of the […]

A larval zebrafish model developed by University of Maine biomedical scientists is providing unprecedented, real-time views of the little-understood interactions between immune cells and fungal pathogens in blood vessels. Their in vivo model that enables imaging of the immune system in action has the potential to be used for screening new drug therapies. It already […]

A UMaine graduate was quoted in a Kennebec Journal story about the trail and hut system built by the nonprofit agency Maine Huts and Trails. Chris Nilon, the hutmaster at a hut in Flagstaff Lake, said he graduated from UMaine with a degree in parks and recreation and tourism. He had been working at national […]

The University of Maine School of Nursing has received a $17,381 Advanced Nursing Education Traineeship Grant from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Administration. The grant will help offset tuition and expenses for nursing graduate students in 2011-2012 who agree to practice in underserved or rural areas in Maine. The funding is important […]

Prof. Ann Sossong from the UMaine School of Nursing has received the Maine Organization of Nurse Executives’ Nurse Leadership and Achievement Award. It was presented at the Maine Hospital Association annual luncheon on Thursday, June 23. “The School of Nursing faculty, students, and graduates reap benefits from Ann’s leadership in state initiatives to strengthen the […]

University of Maine veterinarian Anne Lichtenwalner, director of the UMaine Animal Health Laboratory, is available to discuss precautions people can take to reduce or avoid exposure to rodents that could be carrying the potentially fatal respiratory disease, Hantavirus, which was discovered in Maine for the first time recently. “Now that a human case of Hantavirus […]