Spring 2007/08
ASET Students win competition in artificial intelligence!
Not all the details are available yet, but here's some
information about the competition:
http://www.usm.maine.edu/mcr/news/0708releases/artificialintelligence.htm
ASET Research Awards for May
May 2008:
The USM Office of Sponsored Programs
featured Dr. Hong Xie and her
development of woody biomass products into new
nanotechnologies. This educational outreach award provides
funds from the Maine National Science Foundation EPSCoR
Office that will allow one USM undergraduate student and
one high school studnet to receive hands-on training and
experience in conducting toxicology studies of cellulose
nanoparticles. OSP also announced the following extramural
awards to ASET faculty: Lew Incze (Aquatic Systems
Group) for Synthesis: Gulf of Maine Area Program,
Census of Marine Life, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
(R&D); and Doug Thompson and Katie Meyer for Chronic
Disease and Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology
Capacity Building 07/08 (R&D).ASET Research Awards for April
April 2008:
The USM Office of Sponsored Programs announced the following
extramural award to ASET Faculty members: S. Monroe
Duboise (Applied Medical Sciences), Karen Wilson
(Environmental Science / Aquatic Systems Group) and Lisa
Moore (Biological Sciences), for the project Developing
Multidisciplinary Astrobiology Research Infrastructure
Through Exploration of Extreme Environments a the
Intersection of Maine's Metal Mining Past and the Gulf of
Maine, Maine Space Grant Consortium (R&D); S. Monroe
Duboise (Applied Medical Sciences), for the project
Micro and Nano-space Exploration of Health and Disease,
National Institutes of Health (R&D);
Theo Willis (Aquatic Systems
Group), and
Karen Wilson (Environmental
Science / Aquatic Systems Group), for
Stable isotope signatures of marien fish predators and
their prey, Maine Sea Grant (R&D), and
Karen Wilson (Environmental
Science / Aquatic Systems Group) and
Theo Willis (Aquatic Systems
Group), and
Karen Wilson (Environmental
Science / Aquatic Systems Group), for Ecological role
of adult and juvenile anadromous forage fish in downeast
maine estuaries: sea-run alewife and ground-fish
predators, Northeast Consortium (R&D).ASET
Research Awards for March
March 2008:
The USM Office of Sponsored Programs
featured the work of visiting Libra professor John Lechner
in the March issue of "So Noted." Under a grant by the
American Institute for Cancer Research, Mixtures of
foods with enhanced cancer prevention activity, Dr.
Lechner is studying the optimal use of foods and spices
with anti-cancer properties in a neutraceutical that along
with smoking cessation programs will reduce lung cancer
development on a population-wide basis. OSP also announced
the following extramural awards to ASET faculty members in
March: Space Grant - Senior Design Projects 07-09,
to Brian Hodgkin (Engineering) by the Maine Space Grant
Consortium; and A Regional Multi-institutional Academic
Partnership for Excellence in Environmental Public Health
Tracking, to Doug Thompson (Applied Medical Sciences)
by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
(R&D). ASET Research Awards
for February
February 2008:
The USM Office of Sponsored Programs announced the following
extramural awards to ASET Faculty members: Tracking site
fidelity of alewives in the Merrymeeting Bay area, to
Theo. Willis and Karen Wilson (Environmental Science) by
Merrymeeting Bay Trust (R&D); ThinkBlue Web site,
to Glenn Wilson (Research
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