UMaine Cooperative Extension was one of the hosts of the Second Annual Washington County 4-H Robotics Expo, held at ine-Machias, according to a Bangor Daily News story. Twenty teams of Washington County children in grades 5-8 competed in the event.
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Several news organizations covered Monday’s announcement that UMaine and Orono native Steve Abbott agreed on a contract to keep Abbott, who was serving as the interim athletic director, in the position for two more years. The Portland Press Herald and Bangor television station WABI both had stories about the hiring, while a Bangor Daily News […]
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The Bangor Daily News had a story about a U.S. Department of Agriculture research laboratory located on the UMaine campus that could be closed and 18 jobs eliminated due to the federal budget impasse. The USDA’s New England Plant, Soil and Water Laboratory is the only one of its kind of the region. The lab’s […]
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a guest column by Dean Ivan Manev of UMaine’s College of Business, Public Policy and Health. In the column, “Making I-95 a Maine innovation highway,” Manev explains some of the factors that make economic development clusters successful and offers suggestions about ways in which Maine can deal with related geographic […]
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The Portland Press Herald has a story about “Signs of the Seasons: A Maine Phenology Project,” a Maine Sea Grant and UMaine Cooperative Extension initiative. The project asks volunteers across the state to help track and document the effects of climate change on common plants and animals.
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Curt Stager, a paleoclimatologist and adjunct research faculty member of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, was interviewed for a Toronto Star story about his new book, “Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth.” The book, which was released earlier this month, focuses on the current era of the earth’s history, when humans have […]
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A Sunday Bangor Daily News story about a Saturday evening Orono includes comments from Vice President Robert Dana. Several UMaine students living at the Stillwater Village apartments were displaced. UMaine student affairs personnel were on the scene and quickly provided those students with access to food, housing and other necessities.
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Comments from Lois Berg Stack of UMaine Cooperative Extension are included in a Portland Press Herald column detailing steps that one can take now to prepare for spring gardening. Stack and other experts provide a series of practical tips in the column.
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a story previewing a Tuesday UMaine talk by climate change activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier. Currently spending a year as a teaching scholar at Bowdoin, Watt-Cloutier is a member of the Inuit tribe who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in 2007. After a Tuesday 2 p.m. session with UMaine students, Watt-Cloutier […]
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UMaine anthropology professor Dan Sandweiss is quoted in a Los Angeles Times story about a discovery shedding new light on the earliest settlement of the Americas. Texas A&M professor Michael Waters, who spoke at UMaine last fall, is the lead author of a Science article that calls into question the belief that people from the […]
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