The University of Maine Cooperative Extension has received renewed funding for a 4-H program that has introduced hundreds of middle and high school students to sustainable lifestyle practices and inspired them to positively influence their schools and communities through service-learning activities.
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The mid-coast news organization Village Soup reported on the Maine Song and Story Sampler from the Maine Folklife Center. That Web site, with associated lesson plans for K-12 teachers, was created by Folklife Center director Pauleena MacDougall and history graduate student Josh Paradis. The site features video and audio files depicting songs and stories, along […]
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John Mahon, the John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy in the Maine Business School, is scheduled for a Thursday presentation at the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs’ Heads of Function and Senior Practitioners dinner in Sydney, Australia. Mahon, a scholar and consultant with an international profile in the area of corporate […]
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A UMaine Cooperative Extension kids’ gardening program was the subject of a news item in the Current Publishing newspapers in southern Maine. The Kids Can Grow program, which started in 1999 and has grown to encompass most of Maine and parts of New Hampshire, is now going national through a website. The program, founded by […]
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UMaine football coach Jack Cosgrove was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News story about an effort to build a new football stadium for Bangor High School. Cosgrove, a Bangor School Department parent, is serving on a board of directors for the Friends of Cameron Stadium fundraising group. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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This week’s UMaine Business Job Fair was featured in a Maine Public Broadcasting Network radio report about why the unemployment rate in the State of Maine is lower than the national average. Therese Hursh, a UMaine accounting student who is in school to earn her undergraduate degree after more than 20 years in the workforce, […]
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Todd Gabe of the UMaine School of Economics faculty was quoted in an El Paso Times story based on his research study “Knowledge in Cities,” published in 2010. The study labels El Paso as a “Comforting Region” where the economy is based on “above average knowledge in customer and personal service and mental-health-related fields, and […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on a surprise visit by President Paul Ferguson to the University of Maine Football team.
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Kathryn Hopkins, University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator in the Somerset County office in Skowhegan, who co-founded the New England Maple Grading School in 2003, has received this year’s international Golden Maple Leaf Award for developing and running the program. The annual fall event, now called the Maple Grading School, is scheduled through 2014, when […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) on Monday covered the Maine Business School’s Job and Internship Fair, attended by UMaine students and more than 30 companies interested in meeting potential employees or interns. Nory Jones, director of graduate business programs, was among those interviewed. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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