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Old ice
Using ice samples from the Allan Hills blue ice region in East Antarctica, scientists at the University of Maine, in cooperation with Princeton University, hope to extend climate records back 2.5 million years. Andrei Kurbatov and Paul Mayewski of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute have been awarded more than $430,000 from the National Science Foundation for UMaine’s part of the project.

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Research

The Big Switcheroo - March/April 2009
Since 1987, biochemist Mary Rumpho-Kennedy has been studying sea slugs to unlock the evolutionary secrets of photosynthesis in an animal through symbiosis and gene transfer. Read More in Research.

Student Focus

 Julie-Ann Scott - January / February 2009
Julie-Ann Scott knows about high unemployment among people with physical disabilities. Read More in Student Focus.

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  • Touching the Edge of the Universe
  • UMaine Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium
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