Renae Moran, a tree fruit specialist with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News article about Maine’s apple crop forecast. The summer drought may affect this year’s harvest, according to the article, and commercial growers in southern and central Maine are focused on the next few weeks to determine […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Reuters article, “Maine governor’s outburst tests limits of anger politics.” Republican Gov. Paul LePage recently sparked criticism after leaving an obscenity-laced voicemail message for a lawmaker who he believed had called him a racist, according to the article. Legislative leaders […]
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A preliminary analysis by Marcella Sorg, a University of Maine medical and forensic anthropologist, was cited in a Bangor Daily News article about drug overdoses in the state. According to the Aug. 30 article, in the first six months of 2016, 189 people in Maine have died by drug overdose — an increase of 50 […]
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The University of Maine was included in Carlos Lück’s Maine Voices piece in the Portland Press Herald about engineering programs partnering with industry. Lück, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern Maine, wrote that UMaine and USM are the two universities in the University of Maine System with fully accredited engineering […]
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WABI (channel 5) and the Bangor Daily News covered Friday’s Maine Hello, during which about 1,000 students, staff and community volunteers welcomed 2,350 first-year students and their families to campus and helped the new students move into their rooms. “It’s a moment where we’re really welcoming people to campus saying, ‘Hey this is your community, […]
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A number of media outlets carried the AP report that the University of Maine welcomed its largest incoming class — more than 2,300 students. Fifty-six percent of the first-year students are from the state of Maine. Among the outlets carrying the report: The Portland Press Herald, Foster’s Daily Democrat, WCSH6, Washington Times, MPBN, Sun Journal and […]
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Michael Day, associate research professor in the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, talked with AccuWeather for a story about how a warm fall weather could jeopardize this year’s foliage. According to the story, forecasters are predicting a warm start to fall across the Northeast, as well as dry conditions, could result in foliage […]
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George Kinghorn, director of the University of Maine Museum of Art, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald piece about the show “Contemporary Currents: Nine New Brunswick Artists” that opens Sept. 23 at the downtown Bangor museum. Kinghorn says he was given the keys to a Canadian art vault and told he could borrow whatever […]
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University of Maine dragonfly research was mentioned in a Benito Link article about Pinnacles National Park in California. Volunteers there took part in dragonfly nymph sampling, which is part of a nationwide project between the National Park Service, United States Geological Survey and the University of Maine. The project, according to the article, includes citizen […]
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Nory Jones, a professor of management information systems at the University of Maine, and Jerry Ireland of the United Farmer Veterans of America — Maine, visited WABI (Channel 5) to speak about the MBS Veteran Entrepreneur Project (VEP), an online resource for veterans in the state. The purpose of the website and research project is […]
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