The Portland Press Herald reported José Eduardo Meireles, assistant professor of plant evolution and systematics at the University of Maine and director of UMaine’s herbarium, will give the keynote address at a symposium hosted by the New England Wild Flower Society. The symposium, “Native Plant Conservation in the 21st Century,” will be held 10 a.m.–5 […]
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VillageSoup reported Sonja Birthisel, a postdoctoral research associate in the University of Maine School of Forest Resources, will give a talk about how climate change is affecting Maine farms at noon April 16 at Merryspring Nature Center in Camden. Birthisel will draw on interviews she is conducting with farmers and crop advisers as part of […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) interviewed senior nursing students from the University of Maine who have been collecting children’s pajamas and money for the past month to donate to Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. The students — Caroline Bush, Brooke Hammond, Lauren Martin and Jordan Richards — came up with […]
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The Associated Press covered this year’s Canadian/U.S. Lobstermen’s Town Meeting April 5 and 6 in Portland. The University of Maine Lobster Institute hosted this year’s event, which had a theme of “Two Nations, Two Fisheries: Shared Challenges, Shared Opportunities” and attracted lobstermen, dealers, processors, scientists and others from both countries, according to the article. News […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot, VillageSoup and The Free Press of Rockland announced registration is open for Kids Can Grow, a program run by Maine Coast Heritage Trust and University of Maine Cooperative Extension that introduces children and parents to growing vegetables for healthy eating. Six hands-on gardening classes will be held in the community garden at the […]
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The Daily Bulldog reported the University of Maine Folklife Center’s Story Wagon will be at the Ski Museum of Maine’s fifth annual Skee Spree to record ski memories. The event will be held April 20 at Barker Mountain Lodge at Sunday River Ski Resort as part of the annual Ski Mania event. The Story Wagon […]
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A group of senior nursing students at the University of Maine are collecting children’s pajamas for a Bangor hospital to give to patients who need them. Caroline Bush of Holden, Maine; Brooke Hammond of Frankfort, Maine; and Lauren Martin and Jordan Richards, both of Bradley, Maine, are enrolled in NUR 452 — Community and Population […]
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Morning Ag Clips previewed a University of Maine Cooperative Extension workshop focused on media training for farmers from 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. April 29 at Kennebec Valley Community College Harold Alfond Campus in Hinckley. The workshop will include best practices for working with media, telling a farm’s story in print and on social media, and practical […]
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Donations and volunteers are being sought for the Maine Day Meal Packout at the University of Maine on May 1. In food-packing events, campus and community volunteers box meals that are donated to food banks and community organizations that feed the hungry. “The broad goal of the Maine Day Meal Packout is to raise awareness […]
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The Ellsworth American previewed the 15th Canadian/U.S. Lobstermen’s Town Meeting, hosted by the University of Maine Lobster Institute April 5 and 6 at the Westin Portland Harborview Hotel. First held in 2004, the meeting alternates between the two countries each year. This year’s theme is “Two Nations, Two Fisheries: Shared Challenges, Shared Opportunities.” Lobstermen, dealers, […]
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