Outreach

UMaine Extension mentioned in Forecaster article on Falmouth nature workshop

The Forecaster reported a partnership between the Falmouth Land Trust and other local organizations, including the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, that aims to better connect residents to town-owned conservation land has led to a parent-child nature workshop. The workshop, which costs $15 per person or $40 for a family, consists of walking the trail […]

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School of Social Work to host public conference on environmental justice

The University of Maine School of Social Work will host a conference on the effects the natural environment has on our overall wellness, as well as the effects humans have on the natural environment. “Environmental Justice: A Social Work Perspective” will be held 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. May 5 at the D.P. Corbett Business […]

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16th annual POETS/SPEAK! to celebrate diversity at Bangor Public Library

The Bangor Public Library will host the 16th annual POETS/SPEAK! poetry reading event April 26. This year’s event, which is themed “Celebrate Unity in Diversity,” is dedicated to Allen Monga, a student at Deering High School in Portland and an asylum seeker from Zambia, who won the Maine Poetry Out Loud competition and went to […]

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Applications available for Master Food Preserver course

Applications for the 10-session University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Food Preserver course beginning in June are available. The first session is June 19 and the last is Sept. 18. Classes are primarily 5:30–8:30 p.m. Tuesdays at UMaine Extension in Falmouth and Brunswick High School. The course will cover food preservation techniques, including canning, drying, […]

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MET students’ capstone project helps local church, WABI reports

WABI (Channel 5) reported on a senior capstone project being completed by a group of mechanical engineering technology students at the University of Maine. The students are repairing the Unitarian Universalist Society of Bangor’s tubular-pneumatic pipe organ that was built in the early 1900s. Informed by professional organ repair companies that the organ should be […]

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WVII covers Best Buddies Friendship Walk

WVII (Channel 7) reported on a Friendship Walk hosted by the University of Maine chapter of Best Buddies, an international nonprofit that aims to create opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The event raised money to send the executive board to a national leadership conference. […]

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Undergraduate, graduate students receive awards at 2018 Student Symposium

More than 1,300 undergraduate and graduate students presented their work during the third annual University of Maine Student Symposium held at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor on April 17. The free public event, which was organized by UMaine Graduate Student Government and the Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) as part of Maine Impact Week, […]

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From ticks to toxins, symposium explores climate change ramifications

University of Maine faculty and graduate students will present wide-ranging research at the 26th annual Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium that sheds light on how climate change affects the state and its residents. Topics of the emerging climate change studies include whether a temperature-related increase in toxic algal blooms could increase the prevalence of a […]

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WABI covers Healthy High, sexual assault awareness walk

WABI (Channel 5) reported on the 11th annual Healthy High 5k/10k and 1-mile run/walk at the University of Maine. Several participants in the 1-mile run/walk wore red high heels, as part of the international “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” campaign. At UMaine, the walk is spearheaded by the student group Male Athletes Against Violence […]

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WABI reports on Bangor Flower and Garden Show at UMaine

WABI (Channel 5) covered the Bangor Flower and Garden Show at the University of Maine’s Harold Alfond Sports Arena. Although the show has been held for more than 15 years, this was the first time the event was at UMaine, WABI reported. Members of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Penobscot County and UMaine […]

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