WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) joined the Maine Department of Marine Resources and interns and staff with the University of Maine-led Maine Sea Grant to look into how a team is helping preserve Atlantic salmon. An internship program funded through Maine Sea Grant and NOAA Fisheries helps the DMR preserve these fish.
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Mark Brewer, chair and professor of political science at the University of Maine, spoke with The County about the general attitude of voters toward raising school budgets given their property taxes. “That is a pressure that voters are feeling,” said Brewer, who is also a member of the school board for Orono-based RSU 26. “That […]
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Better Homes & Gardens interviewed Jonathan Foster, home horticulture outreach professional with University of Maine Cooperative Extension, about the types of fruit trees that grow well indoors. Foster recommends Ponderosa and Meyer lemons, calamondin oranges, tangerines and kumquats. “They are adaptable and do well growing in confined spaces,” he said.
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The Maine Monitor highlighted the collaboration between the University of Maine and Blue Hill Heritage Trust since 2017 to restore red spruce to Surry Forest. Jay Wason, a UMaine associate professor of forest ecosystem physiology, is spearheading the project, and a UMaine graduate student in the school of forest resources, Rose Gellman, published a forest […]
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EOS interviewed Damian Brady, professor of marine sciences at the University of Maine, on the vulnerability of the Gulf of Maine to become more acidic from warming waters and increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. “The dynamics are such that we have these countervailing forces all the time. We have these rises in total alkalinity […]
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News Center Maine interviewed Matt Graham, associate professor of security management and information systems at the University of Maine, on personal data protection in the wake of a data breach discovered by Covenant Health in which hackers had access to their servers for more than a week and stole the personal data of thousands of […]
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News Center Maine and the Portland Press Herald interviewed Mark Brewer, professor and chair of political science at the University of Maine, on early fundraising efforts ahead of the election for Maine governor in 2026. “What would have been interesting is if one candidate had significantly outraised the others, or if one of them had […]
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The Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) in central Maine, a local nonprofit, is seeking a doctoral scholar from the University of Maine in the final two years of their program to serve as a nominee for the National PEO Scholar Award. The National PEO Scholar Awards were established in 1991 to provide a substantial one-time, merit-based […]
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The research farm recently underwent a $3 million renovation funded by the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan so that the land-grant university could accelerate its development of new potato varieties, like the successful Caribou Russet, and the growth of Maine’s agricultural economy and workforce Gov. Janet Mills and leaders of the University of Maine and […]
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CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, interviewed Liam Riordan, professor of history at the University of Maine, for a segment about how the town of Castine, and much of eastern Maine, almost became part of Canada following the American Revolution. “We understand ourselves by thinking about our relationship with the past,” Riordan said. “And Castine really […]
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