The University of Maine’s nonpartisan campus voting initiative, UMaine UVote, will help register voters Tuesday, Sept. 22, at several locations on campus in celebration of National Voter Registration Day. During the civic holiday, volunteers participate in a cross-country effort to register voters in advance of the general election in November. Members of UMaine UVote will […]
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Registration is now open for an in-person project management course, Practical Project Management, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 2, 9 and 16 through the University of Maine Hutchinson Center. Practical Project Management is a comprehensive professional development course that provides useful skills for managing projects in the real world with a concrete and […]
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WABI (Channel 5) interviewed Rob Glover, associate professor of political science at the University of Maine, about the recent uptick in election-related mailings across Maine. “Multiple mailers will show up at individuals’ houses or sometimes they are getting absentee applications for folks that haven’t lived in the house in a number of years,” said Glover, […]
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Stephen Shaler, director of the School of Forest Resources, talked with Forest Landowner Magazine about the evolution of forestry education before, and as a result of the pandemic. “The maintenance of ‘dirt forestry’ skills (e.g. inventory skills, navigation, tree ID, etc.) in the curriculum is something that we have heard from stakeholders in the state for […]
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The Bangor Daily News and VillageSoup promoted a three-day course, Practical Project Management, offered Oct. 2, 9 and 16 in-person at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. More information is available online.
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed Donna Coffin, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor, for a story about contact tracing for livestock. According to Coffin, contact tracing has long been recognized as a successful biosecurity strategy. The Piscataquis Observer also shared the BDN story.
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Maine Public interviewed Kate McCarty, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension food systems professional, about the increase in home canning during the pandemic, and the resulting shortage of food preservation supplies.
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Griffin Dill, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension tick lab coordinator, was cited in an Associated Press story about reductions in insect borne disease resulting from drought conditions in the Northeast. The Washington Times, the Lewiston Sun Journal and CentralMaine.com shared the AP story.
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The Ellsworth American highlighted a free soil testing program sponsored by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in partnership with the Hancock County Soil and Water Conservation District and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Resources Conservation Service. Residents of Hancock can have the pH of their soil tested by dropping off samples throughout the month […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and VillageSoup announced that registration is now open for an in-person project management course, Practical Project Management, at the Hutchinson Center from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 2, 9 and 16. This comprehensive professional development course provides useful skills for managing projects in the real world with participants walking through […]
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