WLBZ/WCSH had a Friday news report featuring Donna Coffin of UMaine Cooperative Extension describing the benefits of LED holiday lights. Those decorations can save a good deal of money compared to other lights, and they are safer because they do not get as hot.
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WABI television featured members of UMaine’s Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity in a Friday story about the group’s holiday philanthropic efforts. In the story, which included an interview with chapter president Chris McGary, the students delivered 25 children’s gifts to Brewer Federal Credit Union as part of the credit union’s partnership with the Salvation Army to […]
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UMaine Prof. Robert Causey was interviewed as part of a Friday WABI story about a clinic and check presentation at UMaine’s Witter Farm. The Maine Farriers Association, as part of a meeting, seminar and clinic at the farm, gave $1,500 to the UMaine equine program to support future educational programs that benefit UMaine education programs […]
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WABI television broadcast a Thursday report about a UMaine competition involving computer science student who have been designing computer games. The competition, conducted in conjunction with Jackson Laboratory, was a final project for a programming course.
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Some UMaine engineering students spent last Saturday in Cape Elizabeth judging the Southern Maine VEX Robotics Competition, according to the South Portland Sentry blog. The UMaine will host the state robotics competition in February at the Bangor Auditorium, the blog posting stated.
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Jeremy Frey, who will be exhibiting his Maine Indian baskets Saturday at the Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration at the Hudson Museum, was featured in a Bangor Daily News article about a national arts grant he received Tuesday. Saturday’s event will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Collins Center for the […]
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An article in the Dec. 8 edition of the Bangor Daily News about Legal Services for the Elderly attorney Julie Millet in Bangor, and the increase in the number of older people needing legal services, cited a recent study by the University of Maine Center on Aging that established a growing need. Legal Services commissioned […]
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In a Bangor Daily News letter to the editor, UMaine’s Habib Dagher, director of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, advocates for federal research investments he writes have helped the UMaine-based offshore wind technology development program create 250 jobs this year within 25 Maine companies and organizations.
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CNBC had on its website an Associated Press story in which UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Barbara Murphy was quoted about gleaning leftover crops to donate to the needy. Murphy said gleaning is becoming more popular as a way to reduce waste.
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The Lewiston Sun Journal reports on a new exhibit at the Maine State Museum in Augusta, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the wreck of the Nottingham Galley off the Maine coast near York. The exhibit includes video and photo depictions of the efforts of UMaine marine archaeologist Warren Riess, who recovered some of the ship’s […]
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