UMaine Climate Change Institute graduate students Leigh Stearns is featured along with her advisor, glaciologist Gordon Hamilton, in a Rolling Stone Magazine story about the accelerated melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Writer Ben Wallace-Wells spent time with Stearns, Hamilton and their colleagues during an expedition to Greenland.
Frederick Schwaner of Hebron, Maine, an Electrical and Computer Engineering doctoral student, won the second place best paper award at IEEE Regions 1 and 2 Joint Conference in Philadelphia on April 17, along with $500 cash prize.