The Penobscot Bay Press published a news release about the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Hancock County Business Conference and Trade Show Nov. 1–2 in Ellsworth. The conference is designed to bring together hundreds of business representatives and business development specialists to discuss common problems and solutions to business challenges in the Downeast area. Gov. […]
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An article in the Wiscasset Newspaper about economic concerns about St. Andrews Hospital in Boothbay noted that a hospital task force has engaged University of Maine economist Todd Gabe to conduct an economic analysis of the facility’s operations. Gabe was quoted as saying that extensive economic effects of a possible closure of the hospital on […]
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The Portland Phoenix has published a positive review of recent University of Maine Intermedia MFA graduate Reese Inman’s 21-piece digital and analog image-capture exhibit at the University of Maine at Augusta. The review says Inman, who is now a web developer in the UMaine Division of Marketing and Communications, appears “equally at home with paint […]
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An article on the QUARTZ website by economist and editor Richard Florida, author of “The Rise of the Creative Class,” discusses a recent study, “The Creative Class and the Crisis,” by University of Maine economist Todd Gabe and colleagues about how three broad categories of jobs have fared since the apex of the economic crisis. […]
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A Lewiston Sun Journal feature article about a Jay middle school community gardening project to benefit a local food bank noted that a seventh-grader leading the project learned about gardening methods through University of Maine Cooperative Extension classes. The students donated more than 100 pounds of cucumbers, tomatoes, green beans and carrots from their school […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court decision Tuesday to uphold the conviction of a South Berwick man sentenced in 2011 to seven years in prison for the hit-and-run death of UMaine student Jordan Bakley the previous year. The Republic in Indiana carried an Associated Press report about the decision. Contact: […]
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WindTECH International has posted on its website a report on a new collaboration with the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center and the university’s Physical Oceanography Group and NRG Systems Inc., AWS Truepower LLC, and Leosphere SAS to create and deploy laser-based technological equipment off the Maine coast to monitor wind conditions. UMaine […]
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The health and science websites Medical Xpress and Science Codex have posted articles about a University of Maine biological science research team’s discovery that might some day help people with degenerative muscular dystrophies. Clarissa Henry, associate professor of biological sciences, and Ph.D. student Michelle Goody discovered that boosting the activity of a vitamin-sensitive cell adhesion […]
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Marcia Douglas, UMaine School of Performing Arts (SPA) professor of theater and director of the student production “How I Learned to Drive,” which is being performed at the Cyrus Pavilion, was interviewed for a Channel 7 (WVII) report. Douglas said the adult content of the play could put off some members of the audience, but […]
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Two University of Maine faculty members were interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article about a new UMaine class that examines the science of brewing beer. Brian Perkins, a laboratory director and research assistant professor with UMaine’s Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, and Jason Bolton, a food safety educator and assistant Extension professor […]
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