The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center will host a talk March 1 by Jonathan White, author of “Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean,” The Free Press reported. The talk will take place at noon in Brooke Hall on the lower waterfront campus in Walpole.
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Kathleen Ellis, an adjunct assistant professor in the University of Maine’s Honors College, will teach a poetry workshop in March at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, The Courier-Gazette reported. Ellis, who also is a lecturer in UMaine’s English department, is an award-winning author of five collections of poetry. Her most recent work is “Narrow […]
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Donna Coffin, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and professor, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) for a report about buying local meat in Maine. Coffin said the public wants to buy local, and cited the high number of farmers markets and CSAs in the state. “You’re making sure the money stays locally, and you’re […]
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Catherine Schmitt, communications director for the Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine, writes in Maine Boats that the climate changes altering life above the Arctic Circle are also influencing conditions along the Maine coast. At last fall’s Arctic Council meeting in Portland, writes Schmitt, scientists gave examples of the connection between […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine Beta Theta Pi fraternity will hold its 24th annual Sleep Out, a fundraiser for Rape Response Services of Bangor. The students will sleep outside in front of their fraternity house from 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24 to 6 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 in an attempt to raise […]
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The Times Record reported on a public forum in Bath to discuss the browntail moth infestation. This was the second of several forums led by the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, according to the article. The moth has the ability to defoliate trees, and has tiny […]
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News organizations around the world, including the Bangor Daily News, reported on NASA’s recent announcement that it has discovered a solar system containing seven rocky, Earth-sized planets 39 light years away. The bodies orbit an ultracool dwarf star, according to NASA. Shawn Laatsch, director of the Emera Maine Astronomy Center and Jordan Planetarium, spoke with […]
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The Maine Edge published a review of the University of Maine School of Performing Arts production of “The Pajama Game.” Dawn McAndrews, producing artistic director of the Theater at Monmouth, is guest directing the UMaine production of the musical, written by George Abbott and Richard Bissell, with music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry […]
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The University of Maine and eight of its rivals will face off in Portland in early March, when the America East Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament returns to Maine for the first time in 20 years, Mainebiz reported. Games will take place at the Cross Insurance Arena. The tournament, which also will be held in Portland […]
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Mainebiz, The Associated Press and Boston.com reported researchers at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole have been testing a new technique for figuring out the age of lobsters. Currently, a lobster’s age is estimated by size, but it’s a rough estimate because a lobster’s growth rate is affected by ocean conditions. Not […]
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