Features

Researcher looking up at a tree

SCIENCES

Conifer classroom

UMaine’s mission — teaching, research and public engagement — flourishes in University Forests like the Dwight B. Demeritt

Paper boat

EDUCATION

Leaders in the making

Courses tap into each person’s potential to contribute

Research graphic

SCIENCES

Learning through discovery

Interdisciplinary research initiative gives undergraduates experience in real-world problem solving

SPIA students

ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Worldview

School of Policy and International Affairs prepares students for global engagement

Womens faces

HEALTH

Sick of sexism

In Shannon McCoy’s psychology lab, the goal is to identify strategies for confronting the prejudice in order to improve outcomes for everyone

Resercher under and ice sheet

SCIENCES

On ice

UMaine offers a six-credit field course in which students learn how to study glaciers, including the field skills to conduct polar research

Also in this issue

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Alumni Hall

Maine’s research
university responds

Planning, performing and
persevering in a pandemic

FLAGSHIP DIFFERENCE

Linda G. and Donald N. Zillman Art Museum – University of Maine

Museum of Art
naming gift

UMMA now the Linda G. and
Donald N. Zillman Art Museum —
University of Maine

FLAGSHIP DIFFERENCE

Michael Kienzler

New molecular
tools

NSF grant will further understanding of calcium release in cells

FLAGSHIP DIFFERENCE

Alessio Mortelliti

Personalities studying personalities

Mortelliti receives NSF CAREER Award
to study small animals’ effects
on the ecosystem

FLAGSHIP DIFFERENCE

Hands holding smartphone

The latest tool to help Mainers
fight opioid overdoses

A new app, OD-ME, contains naloxone administration instructions

FLAGSHIP DIFFERENCE

Earth from space

Headed into space as
part of NASA initiative

Maine’s first small research satellite for launch in next three years

FLAGSHIP DIFFERENCE

Tuna jumping out of water

Life histories
of fish

NOAA awards $1.6 million to study
highly migratory species in the
Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico

BLACK BEAR SUCCESS

Don Holder

Seeing
the light

Tony Award-winner Donald Holder plugged into the arts at UMaine

STUDENTS FIRST

Students standing outside

Building the next
generation

NSF REU sites like UMaine’s FBRI are important springboards for student researchers

UMAINE ENGAGED

Open book and statehouse

Schoolwork

Education policy institute celebrates
25 years of service to the state

STUDENTS FIRST

Valedictorian and salutatorian

Setting
the pace

Valedictorian, salutatorian share
a passion for the highest academic
achievement — and running

INSIGHTS

AMC researchers

News
briefs

Research, innovation and student
success in food science,
business, sociology and more

UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION

Aerial view of trees

Forestlands
for the future

Green Endowment gifts provide educational opportunities for generations