Create cranberry gifts in the kitchen from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Cumberland County office, 75 Clearwater Drive, Falmouth. Kate McCarty, UMaine Extension preservation community education assistant, will lead the second in a yearlong series of “From Scratch: Your Maine Kitchen” workshops that highlight and […]
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Tori Jackson, University of Maine Extension educator, was cited in a Sun Journal story about Maine having the second-highest rate of farms in the United States. The number of farms in Maine increased by nearly 1,000 from 2002 (7,196) to 2012 (8,136), according to the article. In 2013, UMaine Extension worked with more than 1,000 […]
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Hal Borns’ interactive Maine Ice Age Trail Map and Guide: Down East was featured in a Maine Sunday Telegram piece. Borns, professor emeritus with the University of Maine Climate Change Institute and School of Earth and Climate Sciences, created the guide to document interesting landscape features — including Cadillac Mountain and Somes Sound fjord — […]
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Mary Ellen Camire, University of Maine professor of food science and human nutrition, was cited in a Bangor Daily News article about a man who has lost 120 pounds since joining TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) in 2011. Camire says there’s not a one-size-fits-all approach to weight loss. Some people may need a structured program […]
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University of Maine economist Todd Gabe’s 2012 study that indicated the annual medical cost of obesity in Maine topped the scale at $452.7 million was cited in an opinion piece about childhood obesity published in the Bangor Daily News.
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Several media outlets, including MPBN, WCSH-6 and the Bangor Daily News carried stories about the federal government recognizing the University of Maine System (UMS) for its leadership in cyber-security education. UMS is the first public university system in the nation to be designated by the National Security Agency as a Center for Academic Excellence in […]
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An AP report indicated the University of Maine athletic department’s designs on setting a Guinness World Record for most people wearing plaid or tartan-patterned clothing in one place — Alfond Stadium — fell short Saturday at the UMaine-University of New Hampshire football game. NESN, the Portland Press Herald, the Sun Journal and MPBN were among […]
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WABI (channel 5) and the Bangor Daily News reported a group of students activists from Divest UMaine gathered Friday outside Fogler Library on the Orono campus to demand the University of Maine System dissociate itself from investments in fossil fuel companies. MPBN carried the AP report.
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An international group dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of all people is honoring Daniel H. Sandweiss, an archaeologist at the University of Maine. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) elected Sandweiss a Fellow for his distinguished contributions to archaeology. Alan Leshner, CEO and executive publisher of Science, says Sandweiss’ notable […]
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How old is a deer that has all its teeth and three cups on the four premolars? Eighteen months old. Which species of tree was the Carolina Parakeet’s primary food source? The bald cypress. Which university rapidly and successfully fielded a variety of far-ranging wildlife questions — including law, policy and forestry — to place […]
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