Morning Ag Clips advanced an open house and tour of Faithful Venture Farm at 17 Borough Road in Searsmont from 5:30–7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18. The event is a collaboration between University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Waldo County Extension Association. The public is invited to tour the farm and learn about organic dairy […]
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The Falmouth Enterprise reports George Jacobson, a professor emeritus of biology, ecology and climate change at the University of Maine, will speak at a fall gardening forum in Cape Cod. The Master Gardener Association of Cape Cod will host the event at the Harwich Community Center in Harwich, Massachusetts from 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. […]
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Mainebiz and WVII (Channel 7) reported Nicholas Giudice, a professor of spatial informatics and the director of the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory at the University of Maine, and Hari Prasath Palani, a postdoctoral researcher in spatial informatics at UMaine, have released the first app through their startup company. Last October, Giudice and Palani […]
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The Associated Press quoted Jeffrey Runge, a research scientist in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine, in an article about record warm temperatures in the Gulf of Maine. The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than the majority of the world’s oceans — it has warmed at a rate of about […]
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WABI (Channel 5) covered the annual Maine Hello move-in day for incoming first-year students at the University of Maine Aug. 31. Volunteers helped hundreds of new students move into their residence halls for the upcoming school year. WABI interviewed several students who said they were excited to come to UMaine and have new experiences. “Everyone […]
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The Associated Press reported Lisa Phelps, the former Maine 4-H Program leader, has been named interim director of University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Phelps took over Aug. 31, after the retirement of longtime director John Rebar, who had held the position since 2007. Phelps joined the UMaine Extension staff in 2001. A search for […]
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WABI (Channel 5) spoke with members of University of Maine’s Sigma Phi Epsilon about Rock Against Rape, a free concert hosted by the fraternity to raise awareness about sexual assault on college campuses. The concert, which was scheduled for Sept. 1, was slated to feature the Mallett Brothers Band and Zesty, according to the report.
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The Maine Edge published a University of Maine news release announcing a $748,000 National Science Foundation grant for the development and evaluation of a first-of-its-kind remote learning platform. The system will provide people who are blind or visually impaired nonvisual access to STEM-related graphical information. The project, “A Remote Multimodal Learning Environment to Increase Graphical […]
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Jason Lilley, a sustainable agriculture professional with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with the Portland Press Herald for the article, “Maine’s small, midsized farms suffering from labor shortage.” The labor shortage that has been plaguing Maine’s hospitality industry also is harming the state’s agriculture industry, according to the article. After the 2008 recession, […]
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Morning Ag Clips reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association will partner with the Maine Grass Farmers Network to offer a pasture walk at the David Greeley farm in Jackson. The walk will be held 4–6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9. Pasture walks are designed to be a […]
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