Ezekiel Kimball, interim dean for the College of Education and Human Development, spoke with Maine Public about Maine school district funding in the upcoming school year. Kimball, an expert on education policy, said school districts have an obligation to deliver certain programs.
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For people seeking to start a new career or advance within their current one, the University of Maine Division of Lifelong Learning has made available several online programs for professional development this summer and fall. The programs are designed to benefit professionals from a range of sectors, including healthcare, education and nonprofits, as well as […]
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Editor’s note: This story was updated on July 1. Researchers from the University of Maine and Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have demonstrated a new approach to understanding the diet of newly hatched American lobsters, opening doors for better understanding the role they play in the Gulf of Maine’s ecosystem. Scientists know little about what […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WABI (Channel 5) highlighted the announcement that Karen Cole was named the interim director of the Collins Center for the Arts (CCA) at the University of Maine. A UMaine alumna, Cole has served as the associate director of the CCA since 2014 and succeeds longtime director Danny Williams, who is […]
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WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) and a Portland Press Herald op-ed highlighted the second annual Maine AI Conference hosted at the University of Maine Collins Center for the Arts on Friday, June 13.
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Maine Public interviewed Adam Daigneault, director of the University of Maine’s School of Forest Resources, about a new state law requiring woodland owners to report contracts they’ve entered with forest carbon offset programs “If anything, that’ll help move the conversation forward about what is the role of forest carbon credits and carbon offsets in how […]
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Sophia Cameron, a city of Bangor intern who recently earned her master’s degree from the University of Maine, spoke with News Center Maine, about efforts to protect the city’s ash trees from emerald ash borer. “If we were to do nothing, all of those trees would likely die over the next 10 years,” she said. […]
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It’s late spring, and the leaves on Maine’s maple trees are full – the buds have swelled, and the season for collecting sap is long over. Maine maple sugar producers, like Mark Prentiss and Kim Roberts, are already at work preparing for next year’s sap-collecting season. Prentiss and Roberts, who are married, are co-owners of […]
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Partnership between hazing research pioneer Hank Nuwer, HazingInfo, the University of Maine, and the University of Washington Information School brings to life the stories of those killed by hazing At least 333 young people have lost their lives to hazing in the United States since 1838, with 122 recorded just since 2000, according to data […]
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News Center Maine interviewed University of Maine researchers who are working to understand and mitigate the presence of a group of chemicals known as PFAS on farms in Maine. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry recently awarded five projects at UMaine $2.25M to help commercial farmers manage its presence.
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