The Bangor Daily News spoke with several University of Maine Cooperative Extension staff members about Question 2 on the November ballot that will ask Maine voters to approve an $8 million bond for animal and plant diagnostic services. The bond would allow UMaine Extension to build a new facility on campus to house labs for […]
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University of Maine programs were mentioned in an opinion piece by Sen. Angus King that was posted on Fosters.com, a service of Sanford News. In the column, titled “Education must be dynamic to keep pace with changing world,” King wrote about partnerships between UMaine and state high schools, including the Bridge Year Program and the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the new wind and wave laboratory being built at the University of Maine. Earlier this summer, UMaine broke ground for an $8 million facility that will house W² — the world’s first wind and wave lab to feature a rotating open-jet wind tunnel above a 100-foot-long by 30-foot-wide by 15-foot-deep […]
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University of Maine President Sue Hunter met with the Bangor Daily News to discuss her goals, the challenges UMaine faces and the role the university should play in the state’s economic future. Hunter spoke about the UMaine’s 150-year-old tradition of being the state’s land grant university, and what that means in terms of teaching, research, […]
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The Associated Press previewed the Oct. 23 Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainability Conference that will be hosted by the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute (CCI). The conference, which is aimed at preparing for extreme weather events, is for business people, farmers, community planners and other interested residents and will cover subjects such as the […]
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The Associated Press and WVII (Channel 7) reported Hamish Greig, a University of Maine assistant professor of stream ecology, and Jacquelyn Gill, an assistant professor of terrestrial paleoecology at the Climate Change Institute (CCI) and the School of Biology and Ecology, are studying the impact of hemlock tree die-offs on the state’s freshwater forests. The […]
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Henry Garfield, an adjunct professor in the University of Maine’s English Department, wrote an article for Bangor Metro about the evolution of online learning and today’s virtual classroom. Garfield quoted several UMaine community members, including Andrei Strukov, director of the Faculty Development Center; Gail Garthwait, an associate professor of instructional technology; Duane Shimmel, a faculty […]
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Jeff Hecker, executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “No quick fixes for keeping students in college.” Hecker cited his newly released 2014 Action Plan for Retention and Graduation to kickstart the university’s renewed commitment to student success. The […]
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The Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News reported U.S. News & World Report recently released its latest rankings on nearly 1,800 schools nationwide. The news magazine considered measures of academic excellence, including acceptance rates, strength of faculty and average student debt. The University of Maine was ranked 173 on the Best National Universities list.
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The Associated Press, Bangor Daily News, Mainebiz and WVII (Channel 7) covered an event held in Castine where officials from the University of Maine and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and members of Maine’s congressional delegation marked one year since the deployment of VolturnUS, a prototype that’s one-eighth the scale of a full-size offshore wind […]
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