Contact: Carey Nason, 581-2515 The University of Maine Safe Campus Project will celebrate its 10th anniversary Tuesday, Nov. 16 from 2-3:30 p.m. at the Wells Conference Center, with hors d’oeuvres, entertainment and informal remarks. Safe Campus Project promotes education, intervention and abuse prevention to help reduce sexual assault, relationship abuse and stalking. It also provides […]
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Contact: Catherine Schmitt, (207) 581-1434 or catherine.schmitt@umit.maine.edu Paul Anderson, the director of the University of Maine-based Maine Sea Grant College Program, has been named a recipient of the national Sea Grant Association President’s Award. Anderson served as president of the Sea Grant Association from 2007 to 2008, during which time he worked with the National […]
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A recent visit to several organic farms and grain mills in Denmark by three University of Maine Cooperative Extension agricultural specialists to learn about that country’s crop rotation strategies and grain production was reported in a blog on the website of Wholesome Wave, a nonprofit organization in Connecticut, whose mission is to make healthy, affordable […]
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Comments from Kenneth Palmer, UMaine professor emeritus of political science, were included in an early Portland Press Herald story following the Maine gubernatorial election on Tuesday night.
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UMaine Cooperative Extension nutrition specialist Brenda Bracy are included in a Portland Press Herald story about Cooking Matters for Maine. That initiative provides low-income families with access to expertise about how to prepare healthy, affordable and tasty meals.
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The Free Press Online site features a story about an Oct. 30 Camden presentation by Prof. George Jacobson of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, who also serves as the state climatologist. He provided data about Maine’s changing climate, along with perspectives about what Maine communities can be considering as they plan for a future with a […]
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Ian Bricknell, director of UMaine’s Aquaculture Research Center, will speak at UMaine’s next Research Cafe presentation, Thursday Nov. 18 at 4 p.m. in Fogler Library’s University Club. Bricknell will discuss “Where do sea lice on salmon farms come from and can we control them?”
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The UMaine Museum of Art will host an Art@Noon free gallery talk on Wednesday Nov. 3 at 12 noon. Museum director George Kinghorn will give a talk highlighting the current exhibitions Pablo Picasso: The Passionate Print, Selections from the Museum Collection and String Too Short to Use: Recent Works by Todd Watts. The museum is […]
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UMaine Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Robert Dana is scheduled for a Wednesday morning (7:40 a.m) interview on WVOM radio’s Dan and Renee Show. Listeners can tune in on AM 620 or 103.1 FM. An expert in substance abuse issues, Dana will discuss a new report about the relative dangers of […]
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Monday’s Day of the Dead celebration at UMaine was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News story. About 150 schoolchildren participated in a program at the Hudson Museum inside the Collins Center for the Art
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