UMaine in the News

BDN advances Mitchell Center talk by Penobscot Nation’s tribal historian

The Bangor Daily News advanced a talk by James Eric Francis Sr., Penobscot Nation’s director of cultural and historic preservation, tribal historian and chair of the Penobscot Tribal Rights and Resource Protection Board, titled “Penobscot Sense of Place: An exploration of Indigenous landscapes in the Dawnland.” The University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center […]

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PenBay Pilot highlights nonviolent communication in classroom program

The Penobscot Bay Pilot promoted an upcoming professional development program offered by the University of Maine Hutchinson Center titled “Teaching From the Heart: Nonviolent Communication in the Classroom.” The program, which costs $195, will be held at 9 a.m. April 28 at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Visit the center’s website for more information.

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WGME speaks to Ippolito about ChatGPT

WGME-TV (Channel 13 in Portland) interviewed Jon Ippolito, professor of new media at the University of Maine, about artificial intelligence essay writing softwares like ChatGPT. Ippolito says ChatGPT is already used as a springboard for ideas in his class. “It does scare me to some extent…I think that banning the tools is not the right […]

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Media boosts UMaine Extension ‘Cultivating Resilience’ podcast

The Bangor Daily News, Morning Ag Clips, Piscataquis Observer and Lincoln County News reported that the University of Maine Cooperative Extension recently launched a new podcast called Cultivating Resilience, developed in partnership with colleagues in the Cultivemos network. Cultivating Resilience is a six-episode podcast featuring candid conversations with farmers about how they find connection and […]

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Birkel speaks to Sun Journal about 2022 weather highlights

Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor with a joint appointment in University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the UMaine Climate Change Institute, spoke to the Sun Journal about the weather highlights of 2022. Birkel told the Sun Journal that the last of the winter snowpack melted earlier than usual on March 8, and […]

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News Center Maine features Turkish UMaine student

News Center Maine featured Ece Yeldan, a junior at the University of Maine from Turkey, who said that it’s been difficult being away from home in light of the region’s devastating earthquakes in early February. “It felt a little unfair, too, because, like, here I am, like, worrying about how well I’ll perform on my […]

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Penobscot Bay Pilot shares Talty reading

The Penobscot Bay Pilot shared that Morgan Talty, assistant professor of English at the University of Maine, will read from his debut novel Night of the Living Rez for the Poet’s Corner on Sunday, March 5, 4–5:30 p.m. via Zoom.

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