The Associated Press reported the Maine Sea Grant program at the University of Maine will receive more than $500,000 — the remainder of its FY17 funds — to support research and education. Maine’s U.S. senators said the grants are coming from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and also will help with outreach efforts on […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront’s announcement of the final six performers set for this year’s event, slated for Aug. 25–27. The University of Maine’s Pride of Maine Black Bear Marching Band, composed of more than 100 musicians, is set to kick off the festival the evening […]
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The Sun Journal reported 25 leaders from 18 African countries will visit Lewiston on July 26 to learn about improving their knowledge in everything from engineering to community leadership. The visitors are recipients of the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellowships, a competitive honor awarded to help Africans learn about public management practices, according to the article. […]
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The Lincoln County News published a University of Maine Darling Marine Center feature article about Abby Shaughnessy, a senior studying marine biology at the University of Maine. Shaughnessy is spending the summer interning at the DMC in Walpole. For her Honors thesis, she partnered with Portland-based Ready Seafood to help make selling lobster overseas more […]
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Raspberry planting advice from the University of Maine Cooperative Extension was included in the latest Portland Press Herald “Maine Gardener” column. In explaining “the right way to grow raspberries,” the author cited source pamphlets and YouTube videos created mostly by David Handley, a vegetable and small fruits specialist with the UMaine Extension at Highmoor Farm […]
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The Republican Journal reported FLOW Fort Knox, an event series produced by the Coaction Lab in association with the intermedia MFA and new media undergraduate programs at the University of Maine and in collaboration with the Friends of Fort Knox, will culminate July 29 at the fort in Prospect. FLOW Fort Knox producer and UMaine […]
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Jon Reisman, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Maine at Machias, was quoted in an Ellsworth American editorial about the uncertain future of the Hancock County town of Osborn. Numerous rural towns throughout the state struggle with increasing tax burdens, mounting regulations and declining populations, all while trying to […]
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VillageSoup reported Liam Riordan, a history professor at the University of Maine, will present during the Aug. 2 meeting of the Union Historical Society. Riordan’s talk, “Ambiguous Allegiances in Revolutionary Maine: The Importance of Local History,” will focus on historic events that took place in Machias, Falmouth and Castine, according to the article.
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The Portland Press Herald published a feature article on University of Maine doctoral candidate Brianne Du Clos as part of its “Meet” series. Du Clos led the development of BeeMapper, a new tool that allows farmers to predict how much help they will get from native bees in pollinating millions of low bush wild Maine […]
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OnlineAthens, the daily online edition of the Athens Banner-Herald in Georgia, mentioned the University of Maine in an article about the August solar eclipse. The eclipse’s zone of totality will be about 60 to 70 miles wide as the shadow crosses the continental U.S. from Oregon through South Carolina, according to the article. The full […]
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