The Penobscot Bay Pilot and Republican Journal advanced a six-session program, “Foundations in School-based Restorative Practices,” to be offered at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast beginning June 27. Following sessions will take place June 28, Sept. 16, Oct. 25, Nov. 18 and Dec. 13, and all will be held 9 a.m.–4 p.m. […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot announced the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast will offer an eight-week SAT preparation course, Prep Matters, beginning July 15. The course is designed for rising high school juniors and seniors who plan to take the SAT in fall 2019, and will meet 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m Mondays. “It is important […]
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Darien Mizuta will discuss how shellfish filtration is affected by environmental factors — including temperature and food quality and quantity — at 6 p.m. June 12 in the library at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Mizuta is a postdoctoral research associate at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Laboratory in Milford, Connecticut. Her talk […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and Republican Journal reported the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast will offer a tuition-free early college course, Concepts of Oceanography, to qualified high school students this summer. The course is offered through a partnership with the Maine Department of Education and the University of Maine System, and will meet 3–8:15 […]
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The Honors College Servant Heart Research Collaborative, in conjunction with Honors students who have been awarded the Davis Foundation Projects for Peace grant, will travel to Sierra Leone June 7–19 to work with local partners on the observation and implementation of two projects created by the collaborative. Stephen Kaplan, a rising sophomore computer science major, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) covered the Maine History Festival, held in conjunction with the Maine Statehood and Bicentennial Conference and hosted at the University of Maine. The conference is one of several events across the state to mark Maine’s 200th birthday in 2020. The festival took place May 31 at the Collins Center for the Arts, […]
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David Fuller, an agriculture and nontimber forest products professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was quoted in a New Hampshire Public Radio “Ask Sam” segment focusing on fiddleheads. “There’s literally an army of foragers out there harvesting fiddleheads for this market,” said Fuller. The typical fiddlehead forager “likes to be outdoors foraging, they may […]
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Lancaster Farming published an article on Maine AgrAbility, a nonprofit program that supports farmers, fishermen and forest workers with disabilities and helps them continue working, and how it helps Maine veterans. Funded by a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant and run by University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the National AgrAbility Project, […]
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The Republican Journal advanced an art exhibit at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center’s H. Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery that features works created by inmates at the Maine State Prison in Warren. “From Behind the Wall 2.0” will feature paintings, fine furniture and sculpture and will be on display June 4–Aug. 30, the […]
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Two University of Maine students and one alumna are 2019–20 Fulbright Finalists with the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Emily Craig ’18, Eric Miller and Jesse Walters have been offered grants for their individually designed research projects. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is named for Sen. J. William Fulbright, who introduced a bill in Congress in […]
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