UMaine in the News

Morning Ag Clips previews pasture walk in Jackson

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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WABI quotes Giudice in report on $748K NSF grant for VEMI Lab

WABI (Channel 5) reported the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction Lab (VEMI Lab) at the University of Maine received a $748,000 National Science Foundation grant, and quoted Nicholas Giudice, a professor of spatial informatics at UMaine and director of the VEMI Lab. The funding will support continuing development of a first-of-its-kind learning platform to give […]

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WVII quotes Fernandez in report on citizens’ hearing

WVII (Channel 7) quoted Ivan Fernandez, a professor of soil science and forest resources and a cooperating professor in the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, in an report on a citizens’ hearing about air quality. The hearing, “Maine Speaks on Climate and Cars,” was held by the Natural Resources Council of Maine […]

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Media reference Flagship Match Program in articles on similar programs at other institutions

Forbes, Inside Higher Ed, Wall Street Journal and EAB referenced the University of Maine’s Flagship Match Program in articles on similar price matching programs recently implemented at other institutions. In 2019, Robert Morris University and Oglethorpe University will launch programs similar to the one at UMaine, which was implemented in 2015 to attract out-of-state students. Prospective […]

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Extension to hold emergency listening session on farmhand shortage, media report

The Bangor Daily News and Associated Press mentioned a University of Maine Cooperative Extension outreach effort in an article on a farm labor shortage causing some farmers to lose crops. Extension will partner with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association to hold an emergency listening session Wednesday, Aug. 30 to hear from farmers about the […]

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Press Herald quotes Bayer in article on PETA roadside tombstone proposal

The Portland Press Herald quoted Bob Bayer, the executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, in an article on the proposal by the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to install a roadside memorial for the lobsters that died in an Aug. 22 seafood truck rollover on Route […]

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The Associated Press quotes Golet in article about bluefin tuna

  The Associated Press published an article and video about Atlantic bluefin tuna and a possible recovery for the species that included an interview with Walter Golet, a research assistant professor in the School of Marine Sciences at the University of Maine. The fish can weigh more than half a ton, and commercial fishermen can […]

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