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Research Features

• Harnessing Nature – Fall 2009
  Americans have been called to chart a new energy future, invest in clean, renewable energy and combat climate change. While science must lead the way in developing new technologies, the culture of an entire country dependent on fossil fuels must revolutionize the way it operates.
• Mac’s World – Fall 2009
  Mac Hunter is UMaine’s Libra Professor of Conservation Biology. In 1996, he was named the University of Maine Distinguished Professor. He has written the definitive textbooks on both conservation biology, and wildlife and forestry management, among others. In short, he is a giant in his field.
• Decoding Diatoms – Fall 2009
  Every summer for the past decade, paleoecologist Jasmine Saros has trekked across snowfields and horsebacked up bouldered mountain passes to reach remote, high-altitude lakes in the shadow of the Beartooth Mountains of the central Rockies.
• UMaine Professor Researching Way to Make Cancer Detection Easier
  A recent discovery by a University of Maine engineering professor and his collaborators is expected to make it easier for doctors to find cancerous tumors and start treatment in the early stages of the disease when it can be most effective.
• AEWC Receives Patent – June 2009
  Researchers at the University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center recently were issued a patent for technology that could change the way we build homes and other structures, while cutting the economic losses caused by natural disasters.
• Sounds from the Sky – May/June 2009
  There's more to the sky than meets the eye. That's why students at the University of Maine have installed a satellite dish that will allow them to listen to the stars and planets.
• Pay Dirt – May/June 2009
  The Maine Compost School’s lessons in how to efficiently manage organic waste have increasing economic and environmental ripple effects for businesses and communities in the state and beyond.
• Turbulent Lives – May/June 2009
  Marine scientists at the University of Maine are exploring the role of cell shape in phytoplankton ecology, hoping to better understand how the diversity affects function.
• Agents of Change – May/June 2009
  On the arid coast of southern Peru, anthropologist Gregory Zaro studies the desertification of what was once farmland, hoping to better understand the role of humans and climate change in the landscape’s evolution.
• Operation Robot – March/April 2009
  In Maine's first biomedical engineering laboratory, robotic devices are the building blocks of technology that has the potential to help revolutionize human surgical procedures.
• 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.