College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences

ORONO — University of Maine Ph.D. student and personal financial planner Sarah Morehead has recently published a book, I Hate Money! Understanding Your Financial Attitude, presenting the basics of finance and consumer attitudes that can interfere with sensible handling of money and credit. As a lecturer in the Household Financial Education, Morehead has spent the […]

A University of Maine graduate student has received a prestigious National Park Service grant to study climate change in Glacier National Park. Krista Slemmons, a Ph.D. student in ecology and environmental sciences and the Climate Change Institute, was one of 11 nationwide recipients of the 2011 National Park Service George Melendez Wright Climate Change Fellowship. […]

University of Maine researchers have received funding to continue to examine the impact of dam removal on freshwater systems and populations of sea-run fish such as Atlantic salmon, alewife, sea lamprey, rainbow smelt and American shad, and also begin new research on the effects of restoration of sea lampreys to waterways where sea-run fish can […]

NSFA Agriculture Award Seanna Annis, Associate Professor of Mycology School of Biology & Ecology Seanna Annis contributes to Maine agriculture through an excellent program of research, teaching, and service. Her research focuses on the diseases affecting Maine’s wild blueberries. She examines the basic biology of fungal pathogens, their impact on the crop, and ways to […]

The College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture announces the winners of this year’s faculty awards. NSFA Outstanding Public Service Award—2011 Andrei Alyokhin, Professor of Applied Entomology, School of Biology & Ecology Entomologist Andrei Alyokhin’s primary research focus is on potato insect pest management, with a secondary focus on the ecology of invasive insect species, […]

G. Peirce and Florence Pitts-Webber Award for Outstanding Research in Forest Resources Robert S. Seymour, Curtis Hutchins Professor of Silviculture School of Forest Resources Robert Seymour is an expert on the silviculture of natural forests and ecological forestry. An active and productive researcher, in the last two years he has published 13 refereed papers and […]

Three University of Maine students were named winners of the 2011 Edith Patch Award at an Earth Day Reception honoring the life and legacy of the university’s first woman scientist. Vanessa Coats, Haley Viehman and Alyssa Freitag were honored for distinguished work they have done while at the University of Maine, and in recognition of […]

The College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture announces the winners of this year’s undergraduate student awards. Outstanding International Student—2011 Maire Dineen is a scholar-athlete from Toronto, Ontario. She will graduate this May with a degree in economics. Maire is a member of UMaine’s field hockey team, who has been able to successfully balance the […]

Jonathan Rubin, a faculty member in the UMaine School of Economics and member of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to work at the Center of Study in Renewable and Sustainable Energy at Sub-Saharan Africa’s University of Botswana, Gaborone, during the 2011-2012 academic year. Rubin will assist with […]