University of Maine students with Alternative Breaks, a student-led organization that promotes community involvement, are spending the upcoming winter and spring breaks volunteering throughout the United States. Since 1998, UMaine’s Black Bear Chapter of Alternative Breaks has organized trips for students to provide volunteer service to others. This year, the nonprofit is deploying six groups […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant announce that a five-session workshop for people seeking to build effective meeting skills begins Jan. 4, at Sanford City Hall, 919 Main St., Sanford. The remaining sessions are scheduled for Jan. 18; Feb. 1 and 15; and March 1 (snow dates are March 8 and 15). […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated Dec. 7. The team of WBRC Architects Engineers, based in Bangor, and Ellenzweig, an architecture and planning firm in Boston, has been selected to design the Engineering Education and Design Center at the University of Maine, proposed to be upward of $80 million. The team, which includes five other Maine firms […]
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WVII (Channel 7) and WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) reported on a University Credit Union campaign that focuses on food insecurity on Maine campuses. Throughout December, UCU is rallying support for the five University of Maine System-based food pantries as they approach the busy winter season. For it’s “Ending Hunger on Campus in Maine” campaign, […]
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The University of Maine’s Black Bear Exchange food pantry and clothing swap is one of several campus organizations around the state that are receiving donations as part of a University Credit Union initiative. Throughout December, UCU is shining a light on food insecurity on Maine campuses and rallying support for the five University of Maine […]
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The University of Maine Swimming and Diving team is raising funds and collecting goods to send care packages to troops deployed overseas. The team plans to have the packages ready to ship by Dec. 8 in hopes they will reach the troops by Christmas. Donations of items are being accepted in offices of the coaching […]
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During the first week of December, STEM Guides Downeast is hosting Family Code Night at multiple locations across Washington County. Family Code Night is a free family event at which children in grades 4–8 and their parents do their first hour of coding together. Nationwide, the family-engaging evening events are offered at schools, libraries and […]
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Tori Jackson, an associate professor of agriculture and natural resources with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) at a Maine Farmland Trust conference. For the last three years, the conference has been bringing farmers, service providers, and current and future landowners together to make connections and discuss issues related to […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the University of Maine Page Farm and Home Museum’s annual holiday wreath-making workshop. The workshops, so popular they are never advertised, fill up fast, according to museum director Patricia Henner. For Henner, who has been helping run the workshops for more than two decades, making wreaths is part of […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about a move to renew a nutrition education program for low-income residents. Less than a year after saying it wanted to dismantle the program, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services is working to reinstate it for up to five […]
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