Document Type
Other
Editor
Carole J. Bombard
Publisher
Office of the Vice President for Research
Publication Date
10-1984
Publisher location
University of Maine, Orono, ME
Issue Number
1
Volume Number
1
Abstract/ Summary
Welcome to the first issue of Explorations, A Journal of Research at the University of Maine at Orono.
Join us as we explore a representative selection of the pure and applied research of our faculty. At UMO, we believe that research can capture the imagination and invigorate the mind, as well as contribute directly to the quality of life of the citizens we serve.
In this first issue, we have selected four areas of research that span the disciplines of biological and environmental sciences and the arts. This is but a small part of the research conducted by the faculty at UMO where research, teaching and public service activities support baccalaureate degree study in more than 85 fields and graduate study at the master’s and doctoral levels in more than 50 fields.
Articles include:
"The DNA Molecule: Mapping its Mysteries," by R.D. Blake. The double helix is a thing of habit: simple computer programs are providing molecular biologists with portraits of the evolution of organisms and species.
"The Larch: Avoiding a critical shortage," by Katherine Carter. The curtain is rising on a stage set by a spruce budworm epidemic 70 years ago; clones from exotic larches may halt an economic tragedy.
"The Medieval Oliphant: Its Function and Meaning in Romanesque Secular Art," by David MacKinnon Ebitz. Rarely mentioned in art histories, elephant tusk sculpture added stateliness and grace to noble courts of the Middle Ages.
"RADON: noble gas?" by Carole J. Bombard assisted by Stephen A. Norton. With epidemiological research in Maine, the United States becomes one of only three countries conducting studies to find the causal relationship between radon and cancer.
Repository Citation
Blake, R. D.; Carter, Katherine; MacKinnon Ebitz, David; Bombard, Carole J.; and Norton, Stephen A., "Explorations, Vol. 1, No. 1" (1984). Explorations — A Journal of Research. 16.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/explorations/16
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