The Bangor Daily News spoke with Emily Haddad, the new dean of the University of Maine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, about the importance of studying the humanities and making the most of a liberal arts degree. “Studying something because you think it’s a good idea, but you don’t like it, is probably counterproductive,” […]
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Phys.org carried a University of Maine report about extreme weather research and the upcoming CLAS (Climate Change Adaptation and Sustainability) Conference at UMaine. Researchers at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute have developed online tools to assist local community planners prepare for climate changes, the article states. The tools, which will be explained at the Oct. 23 […]
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The Korea Times spoke with Carol Mandzik, manager of Business Graduate Programs and Executive Education and Internship Programs at the University of Maine, for an article about a new partnership between UMaine and Wooshin High School, a private high school in Seoul, South Korea. Mandzik said UMaine has worked with five Korean universities, but this […]
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Phys.org and The Maine Edge carried a University of Maine report about a two-year study of semipalmated sandpipers being conducted by biologists Rebecca Holberton and Lindsay Tudor. This year, like last, Holberton, a professor at UMaine, and Tudor, a wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, are conducting health assessments and […]
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The Portland Press Herald and Maine Public Broadcasting Network spoke with Ian Bricknell, a University of Maine aquaculture biology professor, about the 10th annual Sea Lice Conference he helped organize. More than 200 researchers from the around the world are attending the Portland conference. This is the first year the conference is being held in […]
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Jeff Hecker, University of Maine’s executive vice president of academic affairs and provost, was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News article about House Speaker Mark Eves’ KeepMe Home initiative to help senior citizens remain in their homes. According to the article, Hecker and several others involved in crafting the policy agenda will join Eves in […]
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The Free Press reported Patricia Libby, a member of the instructional and student services staff at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center since 2011, has been named associate director of the Belfast-based outreach facility. Libby will join Monique LaRocque, associate provost for the UMaine Division of Lifelong Learning (DLL), in leading the center, which has […]
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The Daily News of Newburyport, Massachusetts spoke with Spencer Traxler, a bioengineering student at the University of Maine, about his trip to Ecuador as part of the UMaine student group Engineers Without Borders. The Newburyport native was one of six UMaine students to travel to La “Y” de La Laguna in August on an assessment […]
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WVII (Channel 7) and WABI (Channel 5) reported on the University of Maine’s Welcome Weekend Day of Service. More than 2,000 first-year UMaine students took part in community projects as part of the fifth annual event hosted by The Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism and First Year Residential Experience. UMaine students participates in volunteer […]
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WABI (Channel 5), WVII (Channel 7) and the Bangor Daily News covered Maine Hello, where University of Maine staff and student volunteers help first-year students move into their dorm rooms. The Class of 2018 contains more than 2,000 first-year students.
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