Due to ongoing building repairs, Northern Light Primary Care’s office in the Cutler Health Center at the University of Maine will be closed to the public from Aug. 4-5. During this time, patients will be seen at the Northern Light Primary Care’s Brewer office, 234 State St. Patients may continue to contact the office at 207-581-4000 for questions or assistance […]
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The Bangor Daily News, Mainebiz and News Center Maine covered a ribbon cutting, joined by Gov. Janet Mills, leaders from the University of Maine and the Maine Potato Board, for a renovation to the Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station’s 425-acre Aroostook Farm, the heart of UMaine’s agricultural research on potatoes. A $3 million renovation […]
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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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