The Mount Desert Islander featured Healthy Acadia’s Downeast Gleaning Initiative, launched in 2013 in partnership with University of Maine Cooperative Extension to help local food pantries provide their customers with fresh produce that they were previously unable to do due to budget constraints, lack of refrigeration or space. The program, which has been replicated across […]
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Hey SoCal noted that Habib Dagher, founding executive director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), presented at the California Climate Emergency and Energy Security Summit, hosted by the California Energy Commission in Sacramento, about floating wind turbines. Dagher said that California needs a statewide plan to facilitate offshore wind while […]
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WJBQ-FM featured the story of Gary Clegg inventing the “Slanket,” a blanket with sleeves, while a student at the University of Maine in 1998. WBLM-FM (Portland, Maine), WCYY-FM (Portland, Maine), WHOM-FM (Portland, Maine) and WBZN-FM (Brewer, Maine) shared the report.
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The Nature Conservancy highlighted the research of Edwin Njuguna, Ph.D. student in the University of Maine Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology. Njuguna is using Kenya Bird Map Project data to develop the biological condition gradient for the Upper Tana River — the first use of the method outside the U.S. and the first […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that Mackenzie Roeder, Ph.D. student at the University of Maine, was recently initiated into Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Roeder is among approximately 25,000 students, faculty, professional staff and alumni to be initiated into Phi Kappa Phi each year. Membership is by […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Zipe Education reported on a partnership between the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development and Maine Child Development Services (CDS) that allows CDS employees to become certified as teachers of students with disabilities, birth to age 5, in just nine months. The fast-track program is designed to […]
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Lily Calderwood, Extension wild blueberry specialist and assistant professor of horticulture at the University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture, spoke to NBC Boston about the impact of climate change on Maine’s wild blueberry industry. Calderwood said that climate change related impacts like seasonal drought and spring frost events during bloom can negatively affect […]
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Michael Socolow, associate professor at the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism, wrote an article for Slate about Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the internet, proposing that every browser be equipped with what he called the “Oh, Yeah?” button to ask the browser for more credentials from a website in order to build […]
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In an article about offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine, the Portland Phoenix noted that the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center has been designing its own floating turbine for over a decade. ASCC Founding Executive Director Habib Dagher told the Portland Phoenix that the goal of a 2024 launch of […]
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Mark Brewer spoke to WABI-TV (Channel 5 in Bangor) about the runoff election for Georgia’s senate seat between incumbent Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker. WSAZ-TV (Hungtington, West Virginia), KWCH-TV (Hutchinson, Kansas), WBRC-TV (Birmingham, Alabama) and WLOX-TV (Biloxi, Mississippi) shared the WABI report.
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