The Associated Press and VillageSoup advanced the annual meeting of the Maine Invasive Species Network, to be held April 3 at the Strand Theatre in Rockland. University of Maine Cooperative Extension is a partner of the network and helped organize the meeting, which is expected to draw more than 100 attendees this year. Invasive species […]
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The Bangor Daily News, News Center Maine, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported Joan Ferrini-Mundy was inaugurated as the 21st president of the University of Maine in a March 29 ceremony at the Collins Center for the Arts. Ferrini-Mundy also leads the University of Maine at Machias (UMM), a regional campus of UMaine. […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) covered Pets 4 Vets, a dodgeball tournament on March 31 at the University of Maine to raise money for service dogs for veterans. The event, in its third year, featured nearly 40 teams and was sponsored by Maine Business School Corps, UMaine ROTC and the UMaine Veterans Association, […]
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The Ellsworth American quoted Cynthia Isenhour, an assistant professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, in an article about the opening of Fiberight waste processing facility in Hampden, which will include recycling. Fiberight will have a sorting process that will be able to recover recyclables that have been thrown in the […]
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VillageSoup announced the University of Maine Alumni Association has launched its annual tuition raffle, which will pay at least $8,790 (the equivalent of 30 credit hours at the in-state undergraduate tuition rate) to cover the recipient’s tuition at the University of Maine for the 2019–20 academic year. Anyone 18 years of age or older can […]
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The Bangor Daily News included the 12th annual Healthy High 5K/10K/15K race at the University of Maine in the article “8 events to get you involved with sports in Maine.” The 15K will start at 9 a.m. April 27, followed by the 5K/10K beginning at 9:30 a.m. All races start at the New Balance Student […]
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Turner Publishing and VillageSoup advanced performances as part of the University of Maine Symphonic Band’s spring tour. The UMaine Symphonic Band will join the Edward Little High School Concert Band for a free concert at 7 p.m. April 3 in the Edward Little gymnasium in Auburn, Turner Publishing reported. The Symphonic Band consists of 55 […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot reported the University of Maine Educational Leadership Program will offer an education specialist (Ed.S.) degree through the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The three-year, 33-credit certificate is a terminal degree program that allows educators to apply to the Maine Department of Education for certification in a variety of district-level leadership positions, the […]
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Republican U.S. Sen Susan Collins lauded the University of Maine’s leadership on offshore wind at a March 27 hearing of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development in Washington, D.C. U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry responded that Maine Aqua Ventus is “a really important step” and called UMaine an “integral partner” in […]
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Wired magazine spoke with Amy Blackstone, a professor of sociology at the University of Maine and author of the forthcoming book “Childfree by Choice,” about an article on reasons behind the choice not to have children. “There have always been people who have made the choice not to have children, but we’ve never noticed them […]
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