WABI (Channel 5), Mainebiz, the Bangor Daily News and the Associated Press reported the University of Maine will receive a $2,570,600 grant to lead a coalition of New England universities in the creation of a University Transportation Center (UTC). UMaine will receive about $14 million over the next five years toward leading transportation research to […]
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Susan Gardner, director of the University of Maine’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program and Rising Tide Center, as well as a professor of higher education, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on how implicit bias manifests itself and what people can do to understand their own […]
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Eric Gallandt, a professor of weed ecology at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Times Record article on locally grown lettuce. Springworks Organics, a Lisbon company founded by a Bowdoin College student, is providing a locally sourced sustainable option for greens at a time when more people are thinking about where their food […]
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The Associated Press, Metro, Newsweek, Boston magazine, United Press International, WBZ (Channel 4 in Boston), WHDH (Channel 7 in Boston), The Washington Post, CBS News and Richland Standard cited statistics from the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine in a report of a rare orange lobster discovered at a Massachusetts supermarket. Roche Bros. Supermarkets said workers at […]
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Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias, was quoted in an Associated Press article on the Green Crab Working Summit being held in Portland. Scientists, fishermen, chefs and others gathered at the event to brainstorm uses for the invasive crabs that are threatening New England’s shellfish industry, according […]
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Maine Public interviewed Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, for the report, “Will campaigns about ranked-choice voting affect voter turnout?” Next week, Maine voters will decide whether to continue to use ranked-choice voting in future elections. In anticipation of this decision, two very different campaigns are underway, according to the […]
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The annual Festival of Art in Belfast will take place at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center June 7–9, VillageSoup reports. The variety of works shown in the festival were created by 153 artists. The show is nonjuried and was produced by the Senior College at Belfast located in the Hutchinson Center. The festival will […]
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Todd Gabe, a professor of resource economics and policy at the University of Maine, was featured in the “Ask the Experts” section of the WalletHub study, “2018’s Best & Worst State Economies.” Gabe said the two most important ingredients for economic development are human capital and the presence of technology-using businesses. “State and local officials […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) for a report about how some public events, such as the annual Maine Lobster Festival parade in Rockland, are banning political candidates from making campaign stops. “You could certainly make the case they are infringing on a candidate’s rights […]
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The Associated Press cited Brian Beal, a professor of marine ecology at the University of Maine at Machias, in the article, “As clam harvesting declines, could farming be the answer?” Fishermen have raked wild soft-shell clams in Maine and other states for hundreds of years, but threats such as growing populations of predators, like the […]
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