Today is National Nanotechnology Day! And to help us better understand nanotechnology, NSF and NBC Learn created this six-part series that shows how atoms and molecules that are thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair can be used as building blocks to create future technology. Take a look: http://bit.ly/2eSea82 | National Science Foundation (NSF)

When the University of Maine & National Science Foundation knows what you did last summer and awards you a research grant for it! Congratulations to Justin Baumann, assistant professor of environmental studies, who has received funding from the University of Maine‘s National Science Foundation EPSCoR eRISE II program to support his project studying mussel populations in the intertidal zones of the Gulf of Maine. This award will fund genetic sequencing of mussels collected by Bates undergrads ove