Editor’s note: Story updated April 20. Allyson Eslin of Bangor has been named the valedictorian and Joshua Patnaude of Sanford the salutatorian at the University of Maine for 2017. Between them, the two top students will receive a total of four degrees at UMaine’s 215th Commencement in Harold Alfond Sports Arena May 13. Eslin, who […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention are offering multiple sessions on tick- and mosquito-borne diseases. The training is designed to increase the number of community members who are informed about diseases spread by mosquitoes and ticks. Sessions will focus on insect identification and exposure prevention. People who […]
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The Division of Theatre was mentioned in a Seacoastonline article about Arts Fair week at Horace Mitchell Primary School in Kittery Point. UMaine students performed “James and the Giant Peach” at the fair, which also included African drumming and dancing and performances by the Shapleigh School jazz band and the Seacoast Repertory Theatre. “The arts […]
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This spring, the University of Maine Hutchinson Center will offer a series of five full-day workshops on restorative school practices for K–12 educators. Members of the Restorative Practices Collaborative of Maine will facilitate the workshops that will be held in Saco, Augusta and Belfast. The first workshop on March 30, “Introduction to Restorative Practices,” will […]
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Next month, visitors to a new exhibit at the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor will be able to don a virtual reality headset and become immersed in a fish farm, seeing a 360-degree, panoramic, 3-D underwater world created by University of Maine new media senior Eric Morrison. Wearing a VR headset, a visitor will be […]
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The University of Maine recognized 2,298 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2016 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,714 are from Maine, 523 are from 31 other states and 61 are from 27 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for […]
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The Bangor Daily News posted a University of Maine Cooperative Extension release about its 952 Master Gardener Volunteers providing more than 35,000 hours for 2016 educational, food security projects. Volunteers supported 80 community gardens, 86 school gardens, 103 demonstration gardens and 56 programs involving 1,579 youth in horticulture activities. People participating in food security projects […]
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Margaret Chase Smith Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Sen. Dawn Hill will visit the University of Maine on Thursday, Dec. 1. Margaret Chase Smith Distinguished Maine Policy Fellows are prominent individuals with a past or current career as a policymaker in the state. The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center brings its fellows to campus for a […]
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Five students from five universities combined their business acumen and animal husbandry expertise to win the platinum award at the 2016 Northeast Regional Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge this November. Carly Amsden, a third-year animal science student in the University of Maine’s School of Food and Agriculture from Elliot, Maine, and her team beat out 23 other […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering hands-on “Preserving the Harvest” workshops throughout the summer and fall in locations around the state. Upcoming workshops include: Boiling Water Bath Canning and Freezing 6–9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 6, Messalonskee High School, 131 Messalonskee High Drive, Oakland; $26 Canning Tomatoes and Salsa 5:30–8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, UMaine […]
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