Mount Desert Islander reported volunteers from the University of Maine participated in the 28th annual Take Pride in Acadia cleanup day at Acadia National Park on Nov. 10. More than 300 volunteers from local schools and community groups raked leaves to clear drainage areas on nine miles of the park’s carriage roads in 18 locations. […]
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Andrew Egan, head of campus at the University of Maine at Machias, was quoted in a Quoddy Tides article about midterm election results. Question 4, a bond for upgrades to Maine’s public universities, was supported by 54.4 percent of the voters statewide, according to the article. “Funding from the bond will help us make the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) covered “Equity, Access and Inclusion: A World Usability Day Event” hosted by the University of Maine. World Usability Day brings together communities of professional, industrial, educational, citizen and government groups to promote the values of usability, accessibility and universal design to ensure that services and products important to life are easier to […]
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The unveiling of the Digital Book of Memory at the University of Maine was included in a Bangor Daily News roundup of Veterans Day events scheduled around the state. The Digital Book of Memory contains portraits and obituaries of UMaine’s 261 fallen dating back to the Spanish-American War. It is the culmination of a larger […]
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University of Maine students Will Carter and Austin Cashman visited the studio of WABI (Channel 5) to speak about their research project, Undiscovered Maine. The project, which involves Maine Business School faculty and students, aims to provide opportunities for students to learn web and social media strategies as well as organizational, management and marketing skills […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the eighth annual Bangor Alleycat bicycle race, in which cyclists pedaled to 11 checkpoints throughout the city to complete history-related tasks. This year’s race was organized by Liam Riordan, a history professor at the University of Maine. Alleycat races have no set route. Instead, they have checkpoints, locations listed […]
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Morning Ag Clips reported University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Kathryn Hopkins will be inducted into the Maple Hall of Fame at the International Maple Museum Centre in Croghan, New York in May 2019. Only one other person from Maine has been selected for membership in the Hall of Fame in the council’s 41-year history. […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in an Associated Press article about how Maine’s new ranked-choice voting method will determine the winner in the 2nd Congressional District race between Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin and Democrat Jared Golden. Neither candidate in the most expensive race in state history […]
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Hemant Pendse, director of the University of Maine’s Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, spoke with WVII (Channel 7) for reports in its “Trash to Treasure” series. In a story on worldwide recycling changes, Pendse spoke about the benefits of recycling through Fiberight’s Coastal Resources of Maine facility in Hampden, which is counting on food waste to […]
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The Mount Desert Islander spoke with Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias and director of research at the Downeast Institute, for the article “Weather, not overfishing to blame for clam decline.” A recent study out of NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center and the Maryland Department of Natural […]
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