The Boston Globe featured Hotel Ursa, an independent hotel that opened in March on the University of Maine campus, in a travel article titled “A star-inspired Maine hotel, a look at Drift Nashville, and collapsible luggage.”
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The Lincoln County News and Windham Eagle shared online gardening resources from University of Maine Cooperative Extension, including its garden and yard website and the April 2024 Maine Home Garden News newsletter.
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The New York Times interviewed Sean Birkel, Maine state climatologist and assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, ocean warming fueled by record-breaking temperatures. Birkel, who manages the Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer, said he believes the warming effect of the eruption of an underwater volcano in 2022 has been larger than […]
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An interview with University of Maine assistant professor of integrative avian biology Victor Ortega-Jiménez was featured in an article from ScienceNews about the effect of flowering plants on bees’ electrical signals. Ortega-Jiménez said that if bees’ flapping wings trigger even a small voltage difference in plants, it could be “an interesting demonstration of communication.”
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The Boston Globe interviewed Mark Brewer, professor and chair of the University of Maine Political Science Department, who said Mainers like the current situation with the 2024 presidential election campaign because of all the attention the state is receiving. Brewer noted that Maine has also been a campaigning destination in past presidential elections.
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Maine Public and WABI detailed the efforts of the University of Maine High Altitude Ballooning program to capture images and data of the April 8 total solar eclipse using a balloon with testing camera, data collection, control and tracking systems attached to it. The article from Maine Public stated the biggest challenge for the ballooning […]
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WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) highlighted the new agreement between the University of Maine and Eastern Maine Community College (EMCC) that will benefit culinary arts students. The agreement created a streamlined pathway for EMCC culinary students to continue their education at UMaine after receiving their associate’s degree.
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FOX 22/ABC 7 (Channel 7) highlighted the University of Maine’s annual education career fair, where nearly 45 employers from across Maine and 70 students from the UMaine, Husson University, Eastern Maine Community College, the University of Maine at Augusta, and the University of Maine at Farmington met inside the Wells Conference Center to discuss educational […]
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WFVX (Channel 7 Bangor) interviewed Nikita Saini, University of Maine Ph.D. student, on her work pertaining to the 2024 total solar eclipse and the Continental American Telescopic Experiment (CATE) 2024 project. The project focuses on studying the sun’s corona in order to determine how it is affected by the eclipse.
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Media outlets including Portland Press Herald, ABC News, Smithsonian Magazine, New England Public Media, KTRE (Channel 9 Texas), WABI (Channel 5 Bangor), News Center Maine, Bangor Daily News, Maine Public, FOX 23, Voice of Maine, and WGME (Channel 13 Portland) highlighted University of Maine students, faculty and staff participating in the April 8 total solar […]
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