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Refining
the Forest |
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UMaine's latest
EPSCoR grant will fund one of the country's first university-based
research programs to study how to turn forest by-products into
bioproducts, using Maine's most plentiful resource to eventually
replace petroleum-based products. |
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A Muddy Start |
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UMaine scientist
Larry Mayer helps show how clays may have made animal life on Earth possible. |
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Altered States |
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UMaine sculptor
Sam vab Aken explores the twilight zone between fact and fiction in our
media-saturated culture. |
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Practicing Piano |
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This spring, Ginger Yang Hwalek's lifetime of devotion to piano
performance and pedagogy reached a pinnacle when she was named the
2006 Teacher of the Year by the Music Teachers National Association. |
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Thinking
Outside the Bait Box |
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Seabait Maine, one of the only aquaculture facilities in the world
that grows sandworms, has the potential to produce 70 million tons
of worms at $30 per pound, supplying shrimp aquaculture farms and
bait businesses. |
