Penobscot Bay Pilot reported registration is open for spring 2020 courses at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The center is offering more than 300 undergraduate and graduate courses, both live and online, for the spring semester Jan. 21–May 8, the report states. Need-based scholarships are available to new and continuing students; the […]
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Contributions made by Gordon Hamilton and Leigh Stearns are included in Science magazine’s article “Greenland’s Dying Ice,” which features Fiamma Straneo’s research on the Helheim Glacier. Hamilton, an associate research professor at the Climate Change Institute, died in 2016 conducting research in Antarctica. Stearns, an associate professor at the University of Kansas, earned her doctorate […]
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Rob Dumas, food science innovation coordinator at the University of Maine, about his time as a chef for the White House Navy Mess, a Navy-run dining facility in the basement of the West Wing. For the first four years of the Obama administration, Dumas cooked in the White House and […]
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WAGM (Channel 8 in Presque Isle), the Portland Press Herald and Centralmaine.com reported the U.S. Department of Commerce awarded a $1.1 million Economic Development Administration grant to the University of Maine to continue to support the Forest Opportunity Roadmap (FOR/Maine) coalition as it implements its plan to stabilize, diversify and grow Maine’s forest economy by […]
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The Boothbay Register advanced Liam Riordan’s bicentennial talk for the Coastal Senior College. The University of Maine history professor will discuss “Brainstorming the State Bicentennial: Past and Present Perspectives” 2–4 p.m. Oct. 29, at the Camden Public Library. His presentation will explore in words, maps and other illustrations, the long statehood process in Maine that […]
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Penobscot Bay Pilot ran a University of Maine media release about three students named 2019–2020 Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows at the University of Maine — Sarah Penney of Thomaston, Noah Loveless of Cumberland, and Matthew Ryckman of Corning, New York. Fellows are ambassadors of humanities for their peers, the campus and […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and News Center Maine reported that about 350 area middle school girls attended the “Expanding Your Horizons” conference at the University of Maine. The annual event, sponsored by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, is dedicated to inspiring girls to recognize their potential and pursue opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math. […]
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The Advertiser Democrat posted a University of Maine Cooperative Extension media release about the “Cooking for Crowds” food safety training for volunteers Oct. 21 in South Paris. The training offers up-to-date information on how to handle, transport, store and prepare foods safely for large group functions, including at soup kitchens, church suppers, food pantries and […]
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Morning Ag Clips posted a University of Maine Cooperative Extension news release about five of its half-day “Recipe to Market” workshops for food entrepreneurs. Workshop topics to be covered in Bangor, Ellsworth, Lisbon Falls and Falmouth include food entrepreneurship in the specialty food industry, business basics, an overview of the product development process, licensing and […]
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The Public News Service advanced Madeline Sayet’s Oct. 17 “Indigenous Shakespeares” free, public talk at 4:30 p.m. in the Fernald APPE space in the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center. Sayet, executive director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program and a Libra Visiting Diversity Professor at the University of Maine, will discuss why […]
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