The Sun Journal reported Kalyn Bickerman-Martens will speak during the Androscoggin Beekeepers Club meeting Nov. 14 at West Auburn Congregational Church in Auburn. Bickerman-Martens, a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Maine, will present, “The Maine Bumble Bee Atlas: A Multi-Year Citizen Science Project to Survey Bumble Bee Species in […]
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Ian Bricknell, a professor of aquaculture and founding director of the University of Maine’s Aquaculture Research Institute, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News article, “Fish food study floated by salmon farm foes challenged as ‘bad science.’” A national organization that strongly opposes siting a land-based salmon farm in Belfast has released an analysis that […]
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Maine Public aired the 2018 Senator George J. Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability as part of its “Speaking in Maine” program. For the first time, Sen. George J. Mitchell delivered the lecture at the University of Maine on Oct. 4. Drawing on his decades of work in public service and as a skilled negotiator, Mitchell’s talk, […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Forbes article about Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Zak Ringelstein. In Maine, Ringelstein is running against independent incumbent Angus King, elected in 2013, and 30-year-old Republican nominee Eric Brakey, according to the report. Maine political experts think it’s a long shot […]
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Mainebiz cited the 2017 Maine Aquaculture Economic Impact Report published by the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute in an article about the Maine Department of Marine Resources denying a request by the town of Kittery to delay its decision on a proposed expansion of an oyster farm. In September, an application in Brunswick for […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported 118 University of Maine School of Nursing students took an oath of compassionate care during the the Arnold P. Gold Foundation and American Association of Colleges of Nursing White Coat Ceremony. During the ceremony, which marks the beginning of their nursing education, the students received a white nursing coat and lapel […]
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China Central Television (CCTV) spoke with Richard Wahle, a professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences and director of UMaine’s Lobster Institute, for a report about tariff impacts on Maine’s lobster industry. Wahle said lobster is a very valuable fishery to Maine, and the most valuable single-species fishery in the nation. “The […]
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The University of Maine has sponsored several billboards in Connecticut to promote the school’s Flagship Match program, the New Haven Register reported. The program, now in its third year, offers merit awards for out-of-state students to attend UMaine for the same cost as in-state tuition at the student’s home state flagship university. “Financially, we feel […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported University of Maine students are collecting unwanted medical supplies and donating them. The students, involved in Partners for World Health, collect supplies from Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center and St. Joseph Hospital each week and sort them before shipping them to developing nations, WABI reported. This summer, 12 students attended […]
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The Kennebec Journal reported a $17,750 grant from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and a partnership between Midcoast businesses is bringing residential and commercial compost infrastructure to Knox County. Work is underway to construct a compost facility on Bo Lait Farm in Washington where the farmers and Camden-based Scrapdogs Community Compost will pick up […]
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