WABI (Channel 5) reported a pilot program designed by a University of Maine intern is offering free peer mentor training to students at Piscataquis Community Secondary School in Guilford. Nine students have been certified in the program.
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University of Maine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center has partnered with Maine EPSCoR, Colby College and the University of Southern Maine to offer “Advancing Women in Academia: 2nd Annual Networking Conference” from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday, May 14 at Hilton Garden Inn in Bangor. Guests are invited to join colleagues in STEM and social-behavioral sciences from […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Maine AgrAbility program was mentioned in the Portland Press Herald blog “The Root: Dispatches from Maine’s food sources.” Lani Carlson, Maine AgrAbility project coordinator, spoke about the program that provides services and assistance to support Maine farmers with disabilities and their families so they can continue to have successful […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported 70 members of the University of Maine community shaved their heads to raise money for children with cancer. UMaine Circle K, a Kiwanis-affiliated college service organization, held its 3rd annual St. Baldrick’s head shaving event on Maine Day in the Steam Plant Lot. The organization raised about […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported the University of Maine football and women’s soccer team hosted the annual Jeff Cole Bone Marrow Drive. Students were asked to come to the Memorial Union and have a swab inside the cheek taken as a sample to be put in the national bone marrow registry.
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The St. John Valley Times previewed the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s open house May 6 at its new location on the University of Maine at Fort Kent campus.
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Targeted News Service picked up a University of Maine report on the Reading Recovery program. Twenty years of Reading Recovery in the state, led by the University of Maine, will be celebrated May 3 at the Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor.
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Genna Cherichello, FoodCorps service member with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, was featured in a recent Penobscot Bay Pilot article. Last week, Cherichello helped Oceanside East’s High School Foundations Program plant an orchard beside the garden near the Rockland school and helped Medomak Valley High School’s horticulture, life skills and ceramics classes build an […]
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Coles celebrated for being driving force for Reading Recovery.
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed UMaine student Eliot Gagne for the article “Worshippers at Orono mosque not worried about anti-Muslim backlash after Boston bombings.” Gagne said UMaine’s Muslim Students Association and the Muslim Student Awareness Week last month helped raise awareness about Islam on campus and most likely helped prevent a backlash after the Boston […]
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