Physics and Astronomy

UMaine TODAY January/February 2006 Five small, high-tech Maine companies that produce miniature smart sensors and detectors already have emerged from LASST research. New products are being commercialized to monitor contaminants in our environment, assess food quality and diagnose health problems. With passage of a jobs bond last November, the University of Maine Laboratory for Surface […]

UMaine Today January/February 2006 A quarter-century ago, the Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (LASST) at the University of Maine was established to investigate the surface and interface properties of materials, from the atomic to macroscopic scales. Today, this interdisciplinary research center is integral infrastructure supporting some of UMaine’s most sophisticated, high-tech research. To read […]

The UMaine Maynard Jordan Planetarium on Wednesday was one of only 20 institutions in the United States to unveil the most comprehensive photograph ever of the closest star-forming region to Earth, the Great Orion Nebula. Using the orbiting Hubble Telescope, NASA and astronomers at the affiliated Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore assembled 520 Hubble […]

UMaine News Release – January 10, 2006 ORONO — University of Maine Professor of Chemistry Jayendran C. Rasaiah has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).   Rasaiah, who also is a cooperating professor of physics at UMaine, specializes in physical, theoretical and computational chemistry and chemical physics. He was cited by […]

UMaine News Release – November 2005 A University of Maine researcher recently has been approved for a five-year $615,155 grant from the National Institutes of Health to try to find a way human cells might reject invasions by influenza, HIV and Ebola, among other viruses. Assistant professor of Physics and Astronomy Sam Hess, whose work […]

UMaine News Release April 22, 2005 ORONO– While telescopes provide new images of far away galaxies, scientists are learning what those galaxies have to tell us about how the universe evolved. On April 28, the public got the chance to hear from an astronomer who studies galaxies that sometimes bear little resemblance to spiral shaped […]

excerpt from UMaine News Release 4/19/05 Physics major Stefan Meister received the Outstanding International Student Award at the award ceremony for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on April 22 at the Buchanan Alumni House on the University of Maine campus. Meister will graduate with a major in physics and a minor in mathematics. […]

UMaine News Release, April 11, 2005 ORONO – Music and science melded April 14, as California musician, composer and physicist Brian Holmes was scheduled to deliver an inspiring combination performance-lecture at Minsky Recital Hall in the Class of 1944 Hall. His appearance was arranged through Nancy Ogle, a UMaine music professor and vocalist who has […]

UMaine Today, March/April 2005 Maynard Jordan believed that the sky’s the limit when it comes to education. The native of Little Cranberry Island started his collegiate teaching career at the University of Maine, his alma mater, in 1917. It lasted nearly four decades. Jordan taught mathematics, which was his area of study, and astronomy, which […]

UMaine Today It’s no secret that water is critical to the way cells function, but a UMaine research team has now added a new view on water in proteins, the workhorses of cellular processes. Interactions with water molecules affect protein stability and function, but how and where those interactions occur is just now beginning to […]