The Associated Press reported University of Maine researchers are working on a two-year project to increase the state’s crop of locally grown plums. The project — funded by the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry — is identifying suitable plum varieties for Maine’s climate that would help diversify the state’s apple farms. The project […]
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University of Maine student Samantha Morse wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Poliquin’s vote may make it harder for Mainers to afford college.” Morse grew up in Peru, Maine, and is a graduate of Dirigo High School. She is a third-year political science major at the University of Maine and communications […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported members of the fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon at the University of Maine camped out on campus for four days to benefit Spruce Run-Womancare Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving people affected by domestic abuse. The students said they have been outside 24 hours a day to symbolize that domestic abuse […]
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University of Maine research was cited in an Associated Press article about wildlife officials and private landowners working to save the Canada lynx by providing patches of spruce and fir forests to attract more snowshoe hares on which lynx feed. An outbreak of spruce budworm threatened large areas of forest and prompted massive clear cutting […]
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University of Maine student Adam Fortier-Brown wrote an opinion piece published by Centralmaine.com titled, “Boys State started teen on the road to an internship at the State House.” Fortier-Brown of Randolph is a first-year student at the University of Maine where he is studying economics and political science.
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WABI (Channel 5) reported a garden and wildflower plot installed at the Pine Tree Landfill in Hampden will be part of a public tour from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8. University of Maine researchers created the gardens as a pollinator habitat project to support bees, according to the report. The researchers said the […]
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The Portland Press Herald published an opinion piece by Charles Scontras, historian and research associate at the University of Maine’s Bureau of Labor Education, titled “Early 20th-century Maine workers would have understood Bernie Sanders.”
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The Bangor Daily News published a feature article on University of Maine football player Sherrod Baltimore titled, “Football player escapes poverty, violence of D.C. to shine at UMaine.” Baltimore’s journey was facilitated by key people who helped him, his positive outlook in the face of poverty, and using his athletic ability to escape the violent […]
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The Bangor Daily News cited research by Sharon Klein, an economics professor at the University of Maine, in an article on an Environment Maine Research and Policy Center news conference that was held on campus. The center recently released the report, “Lighting the way: The top states that helped drive America’s solar energy boom in […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the official launch of STEM Guides Downeast, a new program based in Machias that aims to immerse at least 600 10- to 18-year-olds in innovative, out-of-school science and math opportunities. The three-year project is a collaborative effort among the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance (MMSA), Axiom Education and Training […]
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