WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine women’s basketball team is prepared to play the annual Play 4Kay breast cancer awareness game on Feb. 15. Play4Kay is named after Kay Yow, a longtime North Carolina State women’s coach who died of breast cancer in 2009. Funds raised for the game go to the Kay […]
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Research conducted at the University of Maine was mentioned in a Hartford Courant article about a debate in Connecticut over road snow and ice removal methods. The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) is currently studying whether widely used effective salt compounds are corroding vehicles faster than sand and/or salt, as several truckers claim, […]
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Organizers of the UMaine Business Challenge, the state’s largest student entrepreneurship competition, recently announced the contest is no longer limited to Maine’s public universities, according to Mainebiz. The organizers said students at all of Maine’s higher education institutions looking to pitch their business ideas are eligible to compete for a total of $20,000 in cash […]
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A study by Erin Simons-Legaard, an assistant research professor in forest landscape modeling in the School of Forest Resources, was the focus of a segment on Bob Duchesne’s “Wild Maine” radio show on 92.9 FM The Ticket. Simons-Legaard’s research focuses on the decline of wintering habitat for deer in the Northern Maine woods. The interview […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and FoodCorps are hosting a four-session class in Skowhegan for parents to learn tips about cooking on a budget. Participants who complete the program will receive a cooking kit with recipes and tools. Classes start March 4.
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Gordon Donaldson, professor emeritus of education at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Maine Calling” radio show. Donaldson and other guests spoke about “The past, present and future of rural education in Maine.”
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The Sun Journal reported the Regional School Unit 10 board of directors approved trips to the University of Maine 4-H Learning Center at Bryant Pond. Rumford Elementary School fifth-graders will take part in an overnight nature experience June 1 and 2, and Dixfield Elementary students in grades three through five will take part in a […]
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The New Haven Register reported University of Maine student Laura Bollert recently returned home to Milford, Connecticut to fill in a mural she painted in high school. In 2012, Bollert sketched and painted an 8-by-20-foot mural of a tidal marsh on a wall of the Milford Point Coastal Center, according to the article. She returned […]
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Vivian Wu, a professor of microbiology and food safety in the School of Food and Agriculture, was interviewed by Food Safety Magazine about her latest research on food-borne pathogens. Wu’s project recently received a $150,000 research grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop a magnetic […]
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Janet Fairman, an associate research professor of education at the University of Maine, and Craig Mason, a professor with Maine Education Policy Research Institute and the Center for Research and Evaluation at UMaine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Maine schools can do more to engage parents effectively to help students […]
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