Outreach

22nd annual Rural Living Day April 2

University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Waldo County Extension Association are hosting the 22nd annual Rural Living Day from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 2 at Mount View High School, 577 Mount View Road, Thorndike. Workshops include building small homes, baking bread, birding, pasturing chickens, plant propagation, making maple sugar and candy, […]

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BDN previews Maine Science Festival, mentions UMaine participants

The Bangor Daily News advanced the second annual Maine Science Festival set for March 18–20 throughout Bangor. The University of Maine is participating in several demonstrations, hands-on activities and panels at the festival, which seeks to stimulate interest in science and heighten awareness of its impacts. The article mentioned 10 can’t-miss events at this year’s […]

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UMaine Extension video of Sabattus couple featured on BDN

The Bangor Daily News reported on a University of Maine Cooperative Extension video featuring Ed and Pat Jillson, owners of Jillson’s Farm & Sugarhouse in Sabattus. The Jillsons have been married nearly six decades, and have been farming for several decades — opening their first vegetable stand in 1966, according to the article. UMaine Extension […]

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Registration open for coastal, estuarine monitoring workshop

Registration is open for TORCH (Training for Observation and Research of Coastal Habitats), a workshop sponsored by the University of Maine Darling Marine Center, Maine Coastal Observing Alliance and Damariscotta River Association. The coastal and estuarine monitoring program will be held 8 a.m.–6 p.m. Sunday, April 10 at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole. The […]

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UMaine Research, Conference Services among latest programs to debut new website

UMaine Research and Conference Services are among the latest programs to upgrade to the university’s new website template. The William S. Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service, Academ-e, Maine Autism Institute for Education and Research and Student Records also recently upgraded. The new UMaine.edu and related pages debuted in late August. For more information […]

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UMaine, Bangor Public Library to host three Pulitzer Prize winners

To celebrate 100 years of the Pulitzer Prizes, the University of Maine’s Department of Communication and Journalism along with the Bangor Public Library will host three winners of journalism’s top award. Amy Ellis Nutt of The Washington Post, Kathleen Kingsbury of The Boston Globe, and Jim Sheeler of Case Western Reserve University will visit UMaine […]

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Media report on regional cybersecurity contest held at UMaine

The Associated Press, WABI (Channel 5) and WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on the 2016 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NECCDC) held at the University of Maine. The UMaine Cyber Defense Team was one of 10 groups from around the region to participate in the three-day competition. According to the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, the […]

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Gabe, McConnon speak with WABI about Bar Harbor cruise ship season

University of Maine economics professors Todd Gabe and Jim McConnon spoke with WABI (Channel 5) at a recent meeting of the Bar Harbor Cruise Ship Committee that was held to discuss the effect of cruise ships on local merchants. More than 120 ships and nearly 160,000 passengers are already booked for Bar Harbor’s 2016 season, […]

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