Waldo County

Aerial view of engineering buildings on UMaine's campus in Orono

Design team named for Engineering Education and Design Center

Editor’s note: Story updated Dec. 7. The team of WBRC Architects Engineers, based in Bangor, and Ellenzweig, an architecture and planning firm in Boston, has been selected to design the Engineering Education and Design Center at the University of Maine, proposed to be upward of $80 million. The team, which includes five other Maine firms […]

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Heat

UMaine designated one of eight DOE combined heat and power centers

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected the University of Maine to lead one of eight regional partnerships dedicated to the promotion, technical support and deployment of cost-effective and highly efficient combined heat and power (CHP) technologies throughout the nation. UMaine, in partnership with the University of New Hampshire and Watson Strategy Group, will oversee […]

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UMaine Extension awarded funds to provide crop insurance education

University of Maine Cooperative Extension is a recipient of one of 24 cooperative agreements recently awarded under USDA’s Risk Management Agency’s (RMA) Crop Insurance Education in Targeted States Program totaling approximately $5 million. The agency provides funding for organizations in the form of cooperative agreements to provide education and training nationwide. Under this agreement, UMaine […]

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Aquaculture toolkit

Youth invited to explore ocean with EPSCoR, UMaine Extension toolkit

Got twine? How about clothespins? Glue sticks? Coffee filters? Cotton balls? University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H and Maine EPSCoR at the University of Maine do. They’ve also got dried seaweed, globes, kickballs and fish puzzles. They’ve packed these and other items in toolkits​ — called Exploring Marine Science and Aquaculture (Grades K–2) — that […]

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Aquaculture Educators Network hosts STEM workshop

The Aquaculture Educators Network (AEN) invites ​teachers statewide to a free professional development workshop Monday, Oct. 23 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The event, co-hosted by AEN, is a collaboration between Maine EPSCoR, the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute, Island Institute, Herring Gut Learning Center, and Hurricane Island Center for […]

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Tanglewood 4-H Center to hold Fall Harvest Festival, Trail Race

University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H Camp and Learning Center at Tanglewood in Lincolnville will host a Fall Harvest Festival and the Tanglewood Tracks 3.5-mile Trail Race on Saturday, Oct. 7. The race begins at 9 a.m. The festival, which will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., will include ecology-themed outdoor activities in the […]

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Republican Journal advances Hutchinson Center’s fall professional development programs

The Republican Journal advanced three of the Hutchinson Center’s fall professional development certificate programs. A Relational Health Certificate Program, Promoting a Positive Workplace and Community Culture certificate program will be offered in eight, daylong sessions, Oct. 20 through May 18. Workshop topics include an introduction to relational health; creating a healthy work culture and civility; […]

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Hutchinson Center offering fall professional development programs

The University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast will offer a variety of professional development programs this fall. Program areas include health care, restorative practices, relational and mental health, leadership, business, education, and technology. A Relational Health Certificate Program, “Promoting a Positive Workplace & Community Culture,” will be offered in eight, daylong sessions, Oct. 20 […]

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Gulf of Maine

Longer, stronger summers in the Gulf of Maine

Summer is coming to the Gulf of Maine, longer and warmer than ever — as much as two months longer. That’s the message of a new research article by a team of scientists led by Andrew Thomas of the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences. The study, published in the journal Elementa, examined the […]

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