Research
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USM professor featured in MaineBiz
Raphael DiLuzio joins USM as assistant professor of new media. An Apple Distinguished Educator, he's the founder of the Apple Certified Training Center (Belfast, ME). An owner at VingIt project and involved with Dirigo, he has an MFA from UPENN, and a bachelor in fine art, drawing & painting from California State University, Long Beach. More » -
NIH COBRE Grant Awarded
Computer Science Professor Clare Bates Congdon was awarded $1.2m as part of an $11m National Institutes of Health Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant led by Dartmouth Medical School. Her project will develop computational models to investigate how environmental toxins interact with genes and influence genetic expression. More » -
USM Whale Research Selected to Receive Funding
Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council selected Toxicology of Chemical Dispersant in Alaskan Whales for funding to research the DNA damage caused by chemical dispersants and crude oil in humpback and sperm whales. Built on the Gulf of Mexico study, its extends into Alaska, comparing Alaskan heavy crude oil vs Gulf light crude oil. More » -
USM Student receives an EPA Fellowship
Undergraduate biology student Catherine Wise has been awarded a two-year fellowship from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to study the effects of dispersants on whale cells. The two-year fellowship includes tuition, fees, a stipend, a three-month summer stint at an EPA lab, and funds for her research project. More » -
USM receives a SAMHSA Suicide Prevention Grant
USM is one of three GRC member institutions, among the 16 recipients, to receive the SAMHSA Garrett Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention FY 11 grant competition. USM and Buffalo State College will receive $102,000 each; Adams State College (CO) will receive $75,721, in support of enhancing mental health crisis services to prevent suicides. More »
News & Events
Posted January 23, 2012
The Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) project at the University
of Southern Maine, directed by AMS Associate Professor S. Monroe Duboise and funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was featured in the January 19, 2012 edition of the Gorham Times.
Posted January 13, 2012
Ellen McCann Labbe, a graduate student in the USM Biological Sciences Department, is researching the population genetics of river herring in the Gulf of Maine. She hopes to shed light on how landscape features and human activity have shaped the genetic differentiation between alewives in Maine watersheds.
Posted January 11, 2012
Dr. Louis F. Gainey, Jr.'s article "The Effects of Temperature, Season, and Nitric Oxide on Clearance Rates in Isolated Gills of the Heterodont Clams Mercenaria mercenaria and Arctica islandia," was published in the December 2011 Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology (Vol. 409, pp. 160-165).
USM Faculty Survey
A research survey was released via email to the USM faculty. We asked the faculty to voluntarily participate in this survey. The survey is now closed. Focus groups will follow and results will be posted on this website. Our thanks to all who have already completed the survey.
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