The Bangor Daily News featured a 2020 report by the Maine Brewers’ Guild and the University of Maine in an article about Maine’s craft breweries recovering from pandemic restrictions. The report said craft brewers are a significant contributor to Maine’s economy, with $260.7 million in economic impact to the state in 2020 and employing nearly […]
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Kristin Vekasi, associate professor of political science and School of Policy and International Affairs, wrote an article for East Asia Forum addressing concerns about Chinese rare earth consolidation in the form of a “megafirm” announced in January 2022 called China Rare Earth Group, control up to 70% of Chinese rare earth production, 30–40 percent of […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Sun Journal reported that University of Maine has achieved full, endorsed membership in the Age-Friendly University Global Network. The initiative promotes maximizing the intergenerational appeal of higher education programming through a 10-principle framework, with the goal of expanding inclusiveness and the age-friendly focus within individual academic institutions. UMaine is the […]
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Alicia Cruz-Uribe, associate professor of petrology and mineralogy at University of Maine, spoke with the Associated Press about the possibility of quarrying for lithium at Plumbago Mountain in western Maine. Cruz-Uribe said that the country’s lithium reserves rank among the largest in the world, but “the amount that we produce is peanuts.” The Bangor Daily […]
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ABC News Australia and Freethink noted research by Paul Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, that found evidence of volcanic eruptions in the year 536 and also in the years that followed through analysis of Swiss ice cores. The article used this and other evidence to proclaim 536 the […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Penobscot Bay Pilot, Daily Bulldog, Centralmaine.com and Morning Ag Clips shared information about the 2022 Maine Food Waste Solutions Summit, which will be held virtually on April 15, from 9 a.m.–noon. This year’s theme is “Improving Maine’s Food System.” This second annual summit is hosted by the Mitchell Center and the Portland […]
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The Piscataquis Observer, Morning Ag Clips, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald and US News 18 reported that University of Maine Cooperative Extension recently named Aroostook native Melissa Arndt to serve as its first-ever director of marketing and communications. Arndt will provide strategic direction for organizational marketing and communication efforts, and lead the UMaine Extension communications […]
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Anne Lichtenwalner, associate professor of animal and veterinary science; director, University of Maine Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Cooperative Extension and School of Food and Agriculture, was a VIP caller on a Maine Public’s show, Maine Calling, about bird migration and how the cases of avian flu that have been detected in Maine affect both wild and […]
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Jean MacRae, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about PFAS in Maine’s waterways. MacRae said that wastewater treatment plants make the water safe enough to pump back into a waterway, but they don’t treat it for PFAS, and they’re not […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy has been appointed to the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science by President Joe Biden. The 16-member President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science evaluates nominees for the nation’s highest scientific honor.
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