Robert Dana, UMaine vice president for student life and dean of students, was quoted in the USA Today College article, “Recreational marijuana legal in your state? Not on campus.” Just because marijuana is legal statewide does not mean it’s OK to use on college campuses, according to the article. Dana said while clarifications would be […]
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Josh Roiland, a journalism professor and Honors preceptor at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. Roiland spoke about journalism, the presidential election and the recent surge of “fake news” articles that circulated on social media.
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The 2017 Becoming an Outdoors Woman: Winter Skills Weekend was mentioned in a Seacoast Online outdoors column. The University of Maine 4-H Camp and Learning Center at Bryant Pond will host the overnight event Feb. 24–26. The program offers workshops for women who are 18 or older to gain or improve skills in hunting, fishing […]
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The Republican Journal/VillageSoup advanced the “Veteran Artists” exhibit that opens with a free reception 5-7 p.m. Dec. 16 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The exhibit explores the role that art plays in the lives of Maine military veterans.
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Julia Hathaway included the University of Maine Black Bear Exchange in her opinion piece in the Bangor Daily News about grassroots activism renewing a shared sense of community. “The Black Bear Exchange helps University of Maine students, many of whom are single parents, stretch their meager budgets by providing dietary staples,” she wrote, adding that […]
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Soil testing by University of Maine Extension was mentioned in a gardening gift-giving column titled “No need to dig deep for useful and appreciated gifts” in the Portland Press Herald. “About a dozen times a year I write something like ‘you really should get a soil test,’ and describe how to send soil samples to […]
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Reinhard Zollitsch, University of Maine associate professor emeritus of German, was featured on Bill Green’s Maine on WCSH6. Zollitsch, 77, bicycled 2,000 miles in Europe and has paddled the Maine Island Trail and paddled (in reverse) Samuel de Champlain’s 1609 trek that included Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence River. Zollitsch has completed more than […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed University of Maine professor of aquaculture Ian Bricknell for an article about a Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife task force that is reviewing and rewriting the list of exotic pets permitted in Maine. The committee is considering whether to ban some pets currently on the list in order to […]
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Nadir Yildirim, who earned a Ph.D. in forest resources at the University of Maine, was featured in a Portland Press Herald column about his entrepreneurial spirit and his company, Revolution Research Inc. “We would like to show that we can produce from the trees smart products, futurist materials. Because people have newer needs,” said Yildirim, […]
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University of Maine sociologist Amy Blackstone was cited in a Portland Press Herald story about progressive nonprofits in Maine and across the country experiencing a surge in donations since the election. “They have a legitimate concern about the impact the incoming administration could have on any number of issues: on people of color, LGBT, women […]
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