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University of Maine announces climate change workshop for educators – K. Glover

The University of Maine Climate Change Institute and Summer University will host the first Climate Change Workshop for pre-K–12 educators this summer. “Climate Change Teaching Tools” is designed for educators to learn more about climate change and, in particular, how to bring this important subject area into the classroom in meaningful ways for students. Participants […]

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New round of RRF grants support collaborations and student research learning across the state – J. Zhang, K. Schild

Ten new projects have been competitively selected in the 2022 funding round of University of Maine System Research Reinvestment Fund (RRF). Each project includes multicampus collaborations, with student research learning experiences serving as a central component to the collaborative research being conducted statewide. These one-year projects will foster research and development activities in three important […]

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Newsom awarded $50,000 grant from Telling the Full History Preservation Fund

Bonnie Newsom, assistant professor of anthropology, was awarded a $50,000 grant from the Telling the Full History Preservation Fund through the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project researching the history of marginalized peoples in Acadia National Park. Telling the Full History grant program funds projects that […]

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Climate Change Institute students win research awards

2022 Summer MSGC Graduate Fellowship Winners Announced April 26, 2022 The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) and the Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) have announced the 2022 Summer MSGC Graduate Research Fellowship Award recipients. The purpose of the MSGC fellowship and scholarship programs at UMaine is to provide research opportunities to undergraduate […]

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MercoPress reports on Hamley and Gill ESA award

MercoPress, an independent news agency based in Uruguay, reported that  Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute, and Kit Hamley, Ph.D. candidate in the Climate Change Institute, were recently selected as the winner of the Ecological Society of America’s W.S. Cooper Award for a study on […]

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Hamley and Gill recognized by ESA for Falkland Islands Research

Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor in the School of Biology and Ecology and the Climate Change Institute, and Kit Hamley, Ph.D. candidate in the Climate Change Institute, are co-authors on a research paper that was recently selected as the winner of the Ecological Society of America’s W.S. Cooper Award for a study of seabirds in the […]

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UMaine Early College offers new Climate Change Pathway to high school students

University of Maine Early College has partnered with the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture to develop a Climate Change Online Career Pathway. The 15-credit Pathway consists of a set of core courses (nine credits) in geology, economics and English, and six credits of recommended electives. Climate Change joins a portfolio of 30 pathways […]

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Isenhour interviewed for Waste Dive about reusable takeout containers

Cindy Isenhour, associate professor of anthropology and climate change, spoke with Waste Dive about her research about reusable takeout containers. Isenhour worked with a graduate student to present a few possible models for reusable takeout containers to a group of 35 Maine hospitality, waste and environmental management stakeholders in fall 2021 as part of a […]

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UMaine names 2022 Presidential Award winners – K. Kreutz

This year’s University of Maine Presidential Awards recognize outstanding achievement in teaching in Earth and climate sciences, research in the biophysics of flow-related biological and physiological functions in humans and animals, and impactful community engagement in nursing, particularly during the past two years of the pandemic. Karl Kreutz Karl Kreutz, director and professor of the […]

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