A Bangor Daily News website posting on the GrowME project to garden and farm with children in kindergarten through grade three noted that UMaine Piscataquis County Extension will also take part in the effort. Local volunteers will work with teachers to schedule an agricultural activity in their classrooms during Maine Agricultural Week, March 12-16. Contact: […]
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Comments from Mary Madden, a UMaine education faculty member who is considered a national expert on hazing at the college level, were included in an Orlando Sentinel story about a hazing incident involving Florida A&M University’s marching band. Madden told the newspaper that the school’s decision to suspend its summer band camp and temporarily bar […]
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UMaine economist Jim McConnon was interviewed by Bangor TV station WLBZ for a report on rising gas prices in Maine. McConnon said there are a number of different reasons for prices being so steep, including high oil prices and instability in the Middle East. Average gas prices in Maine right now are second highest in […]
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In a news release on the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch web page, Blackstone Accelerates Growth, a statewide initiative involving the Maine Technology Institute, the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development and UMaine, announced the hiring of John Voltz as its Executive Director. The Blackstone Foundation launched in October a $3 million fund to help Maine’s […]
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UMaine political scientist Amy Fried announced her “Pollways” blog is moving to the Bangor Daily News website blog section. Fried, who writes a biweekly op-ed piece for the BDN, will continue to post on “Pollways,” which focuses on Maine and U.S. politics, cultural phenomena, discussions of government public opinion research and the Japanese-American internment, and […]
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A study about dairy products and cognitive function, in which UMaine psychologist/epidemiologist Merrill “Pete” Elias, and psychologists Michael Robbins and Gregory Dore collaborated with a researcher at the University of South Australia, is receiving international coverage. The Times of India included a report about the study, published recently in the International Dairy Journal, which found […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon was interviewed for a Lewiston Sun Journal column by a staff writer on her family’s decision to put away credit cards and shop only with cash. McConnon observed that studies show more Americans are using credit cards wisely and cautiously, holding less debt […]
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University of Maine history professor Howard Segal was a studio guest on WZON radio’s morning talk show, The Pulse, Friday, Jan. 27, discussing and downplaying conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum last week released the final 45 hours of White House recordings made secretly in the last […]
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Lois Stack, an ornamental horticulture specialist for UMaine’s Cooperative Extension and a professor of sustainable agriculture, was interviewed for a Kennebec Journal story about the USDA’s new plant hardiness zone map, which was released last week and shows how growing zones have changed since the last growing guide was published 22 years ago. Stack said […]
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The Bangor Daily News advanced the Feb. 1 Career Fair planned by UMaine’s Career Center at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. Representatives from some 85 companies, organizations and graduate school programs are looking to meet UMaine and other colleges students who could land internships and full or part time jobs. Contact: Patty Counihan, (207) […]
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