Boothbay Register published a Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust news release about Maine Midden Minders, a new initiative working with individuals and conservation groups to develop a database of erosion conditions at shell middens around the state. Based at the University of Maine and funded by Maine Sea Grant, Midden Minders is managed by geoarchaeologist Alice […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Portland Press Herald reported University of Maine baseball players Cody Laweryson and Nick Silva were chosen by Major League Baseball squads June 5 during the First-Year Player Draft. The Minnesota Twins picked Laweryson, a right-handed pitcher from Moscow, Maine, and the Chicago White Sox selected Silva, a right-handed pitcher from […]
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Daily Bulldog reported the University of Maine Early College program is offering a new outdoor leadership pathway program for western Maine high school students to earn UMaine college credit tuition-free. The outdoor leadership program at UMaine’s 4-H Camp and Learning Center at Bryant Pond focuses on developing an individual’s leadership skills while providing intensive training […]
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The Free Press reported Darien Mizuta, a postdoctoral research associate at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Laboratory, will speak June 12 at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole. The 6 p.m. presentation, “In situ feeding performance for shellfish culture,” will describe how shellfish filtration is affected by local environmental factors such […]
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The Washington Post cited University of Maine research in an article about washing produce. Researchers in UMaine’s Food Science and Human Nutrition program tested three commercial wash treatments and found that distilled water was just as effective or more effective at removing microbes and pesticides from produce, according to the article, which noted clean, cold […]
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Robert Milardo, University of Maine emeritus professor of family relations, was interviewed for a Fatherly article about how to be a good uncle. Expectations for uncles vary wildly by family and culture, the article states. Milardo interviewed hundreds of uncles, aunts, nieces and nephews for his 2009 study and book “The Forgotten Kin: Aunts and […]
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The Buffalo News cited the University of Maine Climate Change Institute’s Climate Reanalyzer in the article “It’s a lock: A warm, sunny, dry weekend is heading our way.” In addition to discussing the upcoming weather for the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area, the article reported the Arctic Ocean will continue this month to experience record warm temperatures […]
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Seacoast Online previewed a lecture by Jacquelyn Gill, an assistant professor of paleoecology and plant ecology at the University of Maine, titled “Of Mice and Mammoths: Ice Age Perspectives on Climate Change, Extinction, and Resilience.” Gill’s lecture will be at 6 p.m. in the Mather Auditorium at the Wells Reserve, and is part of the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) covered an art exhibit at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center’s H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery that features works created by inmates at the Maine State Prison in Warren. The show, titled “From Behind the Wall 2.0,” is on display in Belfast through Aug. 30, WABI reported. More information is […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and Republican Journal advanced a six-session program, “Foundations in School-based Restorative Practices,” to be offered at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast beginning June 27. Following sessions will take place June 28, Sept. 16, Oct. 25, Nov. 18 and Dec. 13, and all will be held 9 a.m.–4 p.m. […]
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