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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The Morning Sentinel interviewed Bob Rice, a professor emeritus of wood physics and bioenergy at the University of Maine, about a woodworking company in Newport, Maine. The Newport Vic Firth Co., now owned by the Avedis Zildjian Co., produces about 5 million pairs of drumsticks per year through a unique partnership of Firth’s tone-pairing process […]
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The University of Maine’s Bryan Peterson, an assistant professor of environmental horticulture; and George Jacobson, professor emeritus of biology, ecology and climate change, were quoted in the latest column in the Portland Press Herald “Maine Gardener” series. In the article, the author writes about the plant equisetum, which goes by the common name horsetail. Equisetum […]
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The Associated Press reported the University of Maine will receive funding from NOAA Sea Grant, which supports fishery and coastal projects, for aquaculture research. Three researchers at UMaine’s Aquaculture Research Institute will receive more than $700,000 to work on ways to address the issue of sea lice in salmon farming, according to AP. Another UMaine […]
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The Calais Advertiser previewed a concert by the University of Maine Jazz Ensemble to take place at the Eastport Arts Center at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19. The ensemble consists of Philip Edelman, an assistant professor of music and music education; Dan Barrett, a lecturer in music, low brass and music theory; and 19 undergraduate […]
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Amber Tierney, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Moneyish article “Your love for fall isn’t basic — it’s baked in.” The article focused on subconscious reasons many people may have for loving the fall season, from the sensations of both nostalgia and newness to temporal landmarks like […]
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