The University of Maine Graduate School of Business will offer 12% tuition discounts toward the MaineMBA beginning January 2020. The Workforce Partners Program, which is available to active members of any Maine chamber of commerce, improves access and affordability toward completion of the MaineMBA. According to recent studies, over the past year, Maine had more […]
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Earning a bachelor’s degree in three years and getting a head start on a dream career is the focus of two University of Maine students. For Ben Leary, a chemical engineering major, the Early College partnership between UMaine’s College of Engineering and Thornton Academy, a private school in Saco for grades six–12, was crucial to […]
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Have a photo spread that highlights plastic waste and the ocean environment? An article about forming a writing community to engage with environmental topics? Or a five-year data analysis about energy savings from installing a home heat pump? “Spire: The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability” would like to hear from you. Spire’s editorial team […]
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The University of Maine has launched its podcast “The Maine Question.” Host Ron Lisnet talks with UMaine pioneers, including those who explore backyard gardens, the depths of the oceans, Earth’s highest peaks, or beyond. They’ll share why they’re passionate about their research and what it means for Maine and the world. In the inaugural episode, […]
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When Brenda Boucher LaFrance returned to Orono in August to move her youngest daughter, Grace, into a residence hall at the University of Maine, it was deja vu. Not just because she is an alumna, but because she has done this two other times, with three of her older children. Brenda and Jim LaFrance of […]
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Virginia Hugo-Vidal had the opportunity this summer to study abroad in Kosovo through the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Kosovo Peace and Conflict Summer Program. The sophomore international affairs and political science double major, of Buxton, Maine, spent a month in Kosovo, taking classes and attending seminars on topics like the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, […]
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NOAA National Sea Grant Program awarded $16 million for 42 projects nationwide that comprise the 2019 Sea Grant National Aquaculture Initiative. Maine Sea Grant, researchers at the University of Maine, other institutions, and partner organizations received $1.6 million to lead four of the projects in collaboration with aquaculture industry, management and community partners. Maine Sea […]
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With the launch of the Maine State Library’s Reciprocal Borrowing Program, University of Maine faculty, staff and students may now use their MaineCards at nearly 70 libraries throughout Maine. The Maine Reciprocal Borrowing Program allows library users with a valid library card from one participating library to visit another participating library to check out materials […]
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The Maine Sea Grant College Program and University of Maine scientists Rick Wahle and Damian Brady are project leaders in the $2 million Sea Grant American Lobster Initiative from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Sea Grant to understand physical and chemical changes affecting American lobster in the Gulf of Maine. The initiative […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine State Beekeepers Association will hold a five-week beginner beekeeping school Thursdays 6–8:30 p.m. from Sept. 26 through Oct. 24, at Springvale Public Library. Master beekeeper and former MSBA vice president Larry Peiffer will discuss honeybee colonies, hive construction, pests and diseases, honey production and seasonal management of […]
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