WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine Office of Facilities Management will host a job fair from 5 to 7 p.m. April 18 at the UMaine campus facilities complex off Rangeley Road. Campus officials will discuss how trades employees work behind the scenes to keep the campus presentable and operational, WABI reported. Representatives from […]
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Incoming University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy was a recent guest on the George Hale Ric Tyler Show on 103.9 WVOM, The Voice of Maine. Beginning July 1, Ferrini-Mundy will become the 21st president of UMaine, as well as the president of the University of Maine at Machias.
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on “The Media and #MeToo” panel discussion held at the University of Maine. Brett Anderson, reporter with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, took part in the panel as the 2018 Alan Miller Fund Visiting Journalist. Last fall, Anderson reported on sexual harassment in the business empire of celebrity chef John Besh. “The […]
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Jonathan Borkum, a licensed psychologist and a faculty associate at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on migraines, with topics including why some people suffer from the severe headaches, effective treatments and the latest research.
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Len Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, was cited in the Pasadena Star-News article, “Successful aging: Challenging assumptions about loneliness and isolation in older Americans.” The article argues more accessible resources are needed particularly for those geographically isolated from friends, other people and community. Many rural older adults are separated by […]
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The Ellsworth American reported Griffin Dill, an integrated pest management specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, will present “Tick Talk” at 5:30 p.m. April 18 at Flexit Cafe & Bakery in Ellsworth. The program is free and open to the public. It is presented by Heart of Ellsworth as part of the 2018 […]
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Eric Gallandt, a professor of weed ecology and management at the University of Maine, and Sonja Birthisel, a UMaine weed ecology doctoral candidate, spoke with the Bangor Daily News for an article about a ground beetle that eats weed seeds. “The ground beetle seed predators rank up there in my top four ways to manage […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and News Center Maine reported the University of Maine-based Maine Community Energy Advocates is leading the effort to create a new speciality license plate focused on sustainability. The “Sustain Maine” license plate, which was designed by UMaine new media student Jessie Huff, will help raise money and awareness for programs that produce […]
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The Associated Press spoke with Deborah Bouchard, a microbiologist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, for an article about lobster shell disease ticking up slightly in Maine over the last couple of years. The disease, often called epizootic shell disease, is a bacterial infection that makes lobsters impossible to sell as food, eating away […]
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Newsweek, USA Today, Anchorage Daily News, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, EcoWatch, Xinhua News Agency and Eos: Earth and Space Science News reported on new research that found glaciers in a Alaska’s Denali National Park are melting faster than any time in the past 400 years — and summer temperatures are starting to climb. The research, which was […]
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