President Paul Ferguson spoke at the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Eggs & Issues breakfast about the Blue Sky Project for the flagship campus. The plans for the project were quoted in the Portland Press Herald.
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George Jacobson, University of Maine botany and Climate Chance Institute professor, was interviewed for a Channel 7 (WVII) report on warming temperatures in the United States. Jacobson, who also is the state climatologist, said the phenomenon could mean shorter winters and longer growing seasons in Maine.
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The Bangor Daily News, Channel 6 (WCSH) and the Portland Press Herald covered a talk at a Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce Eggs & Issues breakfast by University of Maine President Paul Ferguson, who outlined the university’s Blue Sky Project, the mission of the university, and how it supports and strengthens the Maine economy.
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Comments from George Kinghorn, executive director and curator of the University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA), were included in news reports by the Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald and Channel 7 (WVII) about Bethel, Maine resident and longtime Kinghorn friend Richard Blanco, who has been selected to be the featured poet at President […]
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560 AM WGAN Morning News with Ken & Mike interviewed University of Maine President Paul Ferguson as they keynote speaker at the Portland Regional Chamber monthly Eggs & Issues meeting.
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson spoke at the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce’s Eggs & Issues breakfast about the Blue Sky Project for the flagship campus. The plans for the project were quoted in the Bangor Daily News.
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The agricultural website The Grower carried a news report on the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s introduction of a Beginning Farmer Resource Network, a free online resource for new farmers with questions about starting a farming business.
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More than 130 Maine high school students will be on campus Jan. 9 for the spring orientation of Academ-e, the University of Maine’s for-credit distance education program for high school juniors and seniors administered by the Division of Lifelong Learning. High school principals, guidance counselors and teachers nominate students to participate in Academ-e. The students […]
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University of Maine geologist and research professor Ed Grew was interviewed by Channel 7 (WVII) for a 10 p.m. news report about two newly discovered minerals, edgrewite and hydroxledgrewite, named for him by two Russian geologists.
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An article in the Bangor Daily News about the rising cost of milk production in Maine cited information from a University of Maine Cooperative Extension report that estimated the average cost to produce 100 pounds of milk is about $30, which is considered high according to Julie-Marie Bickford, executive director of the Maine Dairy Industry, […]
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