University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a free, online nutrition series for families in Washington, Hancock, Androscoggin and Sagadahoc counties from 3:30–4:30 p.m. starting Feb. 11 and continuing each Thursday through April 1. “Create Family Meals” will include healthy recipes and tips for making healthy meal choices. Participants who join four or more classes […]
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The Franklin Journal shared a University of Maine System media release about its free course initiative that features a University of Maine at Machias student. UMS will offer a free college course to promising first-year students who failed a class during their first semester. Chancellor Dannel Malloy introduced the initiative, known as the Make the […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Alan Kryszak, a University of Maine at Machias creative arts faculty member, about composing the score for a compilation of nine silent holiday short films. Kryszak’s score features violin, harp and handbells as musical accompaniment to the film. “These aren’t your father’s handbells,” Kryszak said, adding that he views his creation […]
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The Boston Globe reported that seismic data from the University of Maine at Machias indicates that the Dec. 9 earthquakes centered in Robbinston may have been two separate events, or one quake and an aftershock. The Associated Press also reported on the earthquakes and advanced the Boston Globe story noting the use of UMM data […]
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The Maine Climate Council released its four-year plan for climate action Tuesday, the same day 60-mph wind gusts were battering the state. As Council member Ivan Fernandez remarked during the public release of the report that the five hottest years in Earth’s recorded history were the last five, the temperature in a number of communities […]
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News Center Maine, the Bangor Daily News and the Machias Valley News Observer reported on the new COVID-19 “swab and send” testing site at the University of Maine at Machias. “We’re pleased to have the opportunity to help expand access to COVID-19 testing in rural Maine,” UMM Head of Campus Dan Qualls said to News Center. […]
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In response to workforce needs in the region and the state, the Early College program at the University of Maine at Machias has expanded to include seven new certificate pathways and additional scholarship opportunities. The program, which allows high school students to earn college credits at UMM, now offers certificates in aquaculture, conservation law, creative […]
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Students in a museum management course at the University of Maine at Machias have completed the installation of a new art exhibit featuring work from the gallery’s permanent collection. “Works by Maine Artists from the UMM Permanent Collection: Celebrating 200 Years of Maine Statehood” is on view at the UMM Art Gallery through Feb. 2021. […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot featured a University of Maine news release detailing the expansion of the Wabanaki Youth Science (WaYS) program to the University of Maine Machias campus. The initiative, New Beginnings for Tribal Students (NBTS), will also establish a mentorship program called WaYS Ambassadors, in which advanced Native American graduate and undergraduate students will […]
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Editor’s note: story updated Oct. 28. Darren Ranco plans to bolster one of the Wabanaki Center’s signature programs to increase Native American student retention and success in college and bring it to the University of Maine at Machias. The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded Ranco, chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, […]
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