The Bangor Daily News reported that improvements to the COVID-19 asymptomatic testing protocols implemented on Monday at the University of Maine have reduced participant wait times. President Joan Ferrini-Mundy piloted the revised testing procedures last Friday. Setup of the mobile laboratory that will analyze the saliva samples and return results in 24 hours continues.
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WVII (Channel 7) and Centralmaine.com reported on a new guide that highlights behavioral support networks in Maine for students, families and communities. Courtney Angelosante, lecturer in special education with the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, is lead author of the guide. “We wanted to get information to families who might feel stuck, might […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and VillageSoup promoted a new workshop, “Intimate Partner/Domestic Violence Intervention Certification,” at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center scheduled for Feb. 11–12 and March 9–10. More information is online.
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The Bangor Daily News promoted a University of Maine Cooperative Extension workshop at the Yankee Woodlot Demonstration Forest at 7 County Drive, Skowhegan, from 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Feb. 21 and 27. For more information, contact Joe Dembeck at 207.474.8323 or somersetswcd.outreach@gmail.com.
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The Maine Monitor interviewed Jean MacRae, a University of Maine associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, about the by-products of commercial mining and their impact on the environment.
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The Conversation, the Maine Beacon and the Portland Press Herald, Centralmaine.com and the Bangor Daily News published an article by Karen Sieber, humanities specialist at the University of Maine McGillicuddy Humanities Center, about a violent 1919 campus incident that culminated in the tarring and feathering of two Black students. Sieber has studied the wave of anti-black […]
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Alabama Newscenter reported on a study of woodcock migration routes and population genetics led by the University of Maine. Alabama WX shared the Alabama Newscenter story.
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Centralmaine.com shared a University of Maine news release highlighting educational resources available to support remote learning for students of all ages. Links to those resources are online.
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The Livermore Falls Advertiser, the Machias Valley News Observer, the Boothbay Register and Centralmaine.com promoted the University of Maine Cooperative Extension webinar “Nibbling on Natives in your Backyard and Beyond,” which will be held from 6–7 p.m. Feb. 24. More information about the event, which is co-sponsored by the University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension, is online.
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New National Geographic Young Explorer Amara Ifeji described her experience with the Stormwater Management Research Team Institute at the University of Maine during an interview with Maine Public. Cary James, the now-retired director of the STEM program at Bangor High School, encouraged her to participate in the program. “At that institute, I was able to […]
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