The Ellsworth American website has posted two videos from the Nov. 1–2 Hancock County Business Conference and Trade Show in Ellsworth, which was coordinated by University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics Jim McConnon and UMaine Extension educator and cooperating professor of education Louis Bassano, who were interviewed for one video. A […]
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Comments by University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer were included in a New York Times article about the influence and infusion of out-of-state campaign money in the Maine Senate race to replace retiring U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican. Brewer said independent former Maine Gov. Angus King, whose campaign has received funding from […]
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The University of Maine Department of History is presenting a free and public lecture on beer brewing during the Renaissance at 3:10 p.m., Monday, Nov. 12 in Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall. Richard W. Unger, University of British Columbia history professor emeritus, will present “Beer Brewing and the Environment in Renaissance Europe.” Unger has studied […]
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The UMaine UVote get-out-the-vote effort is reminding students to vote in state and national elections from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 6, at the Memorial Union for students living on campus, and at various polling stations in surrounding communities. The University of Maine Division of Student Affairs suggests several websites to help students, […]
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University of Maine professor of political science Mark Brewer discussed several pre-election polling results with the Portland Press Herald. Just because polls suggest Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is gaining in popularity in the race against incumbent President Barack Obama, Brewer said, doesn’t mean Maine will become a battleground state. About the same-sex marriage referendum […]
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Jon Ippolito, professor of new media at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a Kennebec Journal article about the price some businesses pay for taking public and controversial political stands. In the report about the backlash on Facebook by thousands of people who disagreed with a Levant apple orchard business that posted political signs, […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension Executive Director John Rebar was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News primer on the Nov. 6 referendum Question 2, which would authorize $7.8 million for a University of Maine animal and plant diagnostic center. The center, which would be biologically secure and allow for more sophisticated research, also would support […]
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Bloomberg Businessweek and the southern Maine’s coastal newspaper group Seacoastonline.com carried an Associated Press article about a study by University of Maine economist Todd Gabe that estimates the current annual medical costs of obesity in Maine were nearly $453 million in 2011 and could reach $1.2 billion over the next 20 years, if current trends […]
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Several news organizations, including Channel 5 (WABI), Channel 2 (WLBZ) and the Channel 7 (WVII) Nov. 5 morning newscast reported on the Northeast Regional Dairy Challenge organized by the University of Maine Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension this weekend in Waterville. Hundreds of students from throughout the […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts Reader’s Theatre will present “The Heart of Art,” a new play by Michael Weller at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7. The performance will be held in Minsky Recital Hall in Class of 1944 Hall. Admission is free. The plot of the play surrounds an aspiring playwright […]
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