Mainebiz reported the Wild Blueberry Commission of Maine has named former attorney Nancy McBrady its new executive director. McBrady is expected to help grow and advocate for Maine’s wild blueberry industry, according to the article. She also will help the University of Maine Cooperative Extension obtain funding for research and development programs related to the […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) covered the University of Maine Career Center’s 17th annual UMaine Career Fair at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. About 120 employers from Maine and around the country with job and internship opportunities exhibited at the fair. Several graduate and professional schools, as well as branches of the military, also were represented […]
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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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