The Bangor Daily News and The Irregular promoted the University of Maine’s Career Fair, which is scheduled for 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Feb 3. The fair will be virtual this year. All UMaine and University of Maine at Machias students and alumni are welcome to attend. More information about the event is online.
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Emma Wilson, University of Maine entrepreneurship events coordinator, spoke with WVII (Channel 7) and News Center Maine about the Big Gig Pitch-Off, a competition where business owners and potential entrepreneurs receive feedback and support for establishing and growing their small businesses.
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The Bangor Daily News, Ellsworth American, Penobscot Bay Pilot and VillageSoup advanced “The Town that Refused to Die,” a Feb. 8 event sponsored by the University of Maine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions. Susan Lessard, Bucksport town manager, will talk about how the town has weathered economic changes and what other communities can […]
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The Sun Journal advanced a University of Maine Cooperative Extension weekly webinar series for families in Androscoggin, Hancock, Sagadahoc and Washington counties. “Create Family Meals” begins Feb. 11 and runs through April 1. More information about the series is online.
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VillageSoup and the Mount Desert Islander promoted a virtual Feb. 2 talk by Alicyn Smart, director of the Plant Disease Diagnostic Center at the University of Maine, highlighting plant diseases and disease management for gardeners in midcoast Maine. The event, which begins at 9:30 a.m., is sponsored by the Camden Garden Club. More information about […]
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University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy spoke with WABI (Channel 5) about campus and University of Maine System engagement in the vaccination process, including seeking vaccines for students and staff, confirming Phase 1B vaccination eligibility for faculty, and recruiting nursing students to administer the coronavirus vaccine to eligible members of the public.
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The Engineering News-Record spoke with Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC), and Bill Davids, professor and department chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering, about the use of composite girders in a local bridge rebuild. The girders, which were initially developed at the ASCC, are produced by Advanced […]
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The College Post cited a survey led by social scientists at the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources in a story about how the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a greater drop in college applications among rural students compared to their urban counterparts. The Rural Youth Futures Project reported that the top barrier to college education among […]
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The Associated Press reported that the University of Maine has received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to develop a ride-hailing smartphone app for the visually impaired. The Sun Journal, WABI (Channel 5) WGME (Channel 13 in Portland), WHDH (Channel 7 in Boston), MSN.com, U.S. News and World Report, MRT, the Sun […]
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Maine Public and the Portland Press Herald talked with Steve Eddy, director of the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute, about Maine’s budding urchin industry and a recent grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that will support development of methods for hatching and growing urchin seedlings. WVII (Channel 7) interviewed Eddy and Dana Morse, Maine Sea […]
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