Inside Higher Ed published an article on the University of Maine’s second year of its Flagship Match tuition scholarship program. The program guarantees academically qualified, first-year students from several states will pay the same tuition and fee rate as their home state’s flagship institution. This year, the program won a small number of additional commitments […]
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The Associated Press reported an arm of the University of Maine is working on a 10-year push to grow marine jobs in the state. The Alliance for Maine’s Marine Economy is working on the effort, which it says will cost more than $16 million and will target new investments that can be useful for marine […]
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Elizabeth Allan, a professor of higher education at the University of Maine and director of the National Hazing Prevention Consortium, was a recent guest on the National Public Radio program “On Point,” which is produced by WBUR in Boston. The episode looked at what’s really going on today with hazing at American college campuses. The […]
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The Maine Edge spoke with the 2017 University of Maine Commencement speakers Heather and Abe Furth ahead of the graduation ceremonies on May 13. The Orono couple met at UMaine in 1999 when Heather was studying biology and Abe was studying English. In the past decade, they have founded restaurants, a brewery and a property […]
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The Republican Journal included 2016 Maine drug overdose death figures in an article about how after some hesitation, Belfast’s police chief is preparing to equip officers with the opioid antidote Narcan. The state attorney general’s office reported there were 372 drug overdose deaths in 2016, 317 of which were caused by at least one opioid. […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension was cited in an answer to a Sun Journal reader’s question about where rhubarb can be obtained locally to grow. Rhubarb does well when it is split and replanted every so often, according to the article. Since it is a fairly common backyard plant, there could be a friend, […]
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A recent University of Maine study commissioned by AARP Maine was cited in the Bangor Daily News article, “Midlife Mainers should know about these changes in Social Security.” The report shows that, statewide, retirement savings are on the decline while seniors’ dependency on public assistance is growing, according to the article. The study was conducted […]
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed University of Maine graduate student Elizabeth “Betsy” Trenckmann about her research and career goals. Trenckmann is about to graduate with a Master of Science in Teaching and has accepted a job at Hermon High School. For her thesis, Trenckmann designed a biology lesson focused on active learning, under the guidance of […]
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A University of Maine video on the state’s aquaculture industry and related research was featured on Science360. For more than four decades, UMaine has conducted research and provided educational outreach related to the farming of aquatic organisms, such as finfish, shellfish or sea vegetables. In 2014, that support took a giant step forward with the […]
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Maine Startups Insider reported [Re]Produce, a company that wants to turn Maine farmers’ surplus into high-end locally sourced frozen food, won the sixth annual UMaine Business Challenge. Anita van Dam and Grace Burchard, both students at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, took home the first-place $5,000 cash award, which van Dam said the […]
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