A Maine Today Media story about how a lack of rain could stunt this year’s upcoming potato harvest includes interviews with Steven Johnson, a crop specialist at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, and Gregory Porter, a professor of crop management. Johnson said the prized Russet Burbank potatoes could die without enough water and those […]
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A report posted on the Kennebec Journal website about Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s upcoming trade mission to China included a comment from Ivan Manev, dean of UMaine’s Maine Business School. Manev said UMaine is looking to establish new partnerships with Chinese institutions and find more exchange and internship opportunities for UMaine students. Contact: Jessica Bloch, […]
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University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report on how moderate Maine Republicans will reconcile their positions on controversial, conservative planks in the national GOP agenda. Such GOP provisions include an English as the national language initiative, pro-life stances and same-sex marriages. Brewer said he thinks Maine […]
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The Kennebec Journal interviewed Alan Davenport, director of the University of Maine Jordan Planetarium, about the weekend’s blue moon, the uncommon appearance of a second full moon in one month. Davenport explained that a blue moon isn’t really blue and, in fact, not all that rare, even though it occurs only once every two-and-a-half years. […]
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University of Maine Vice President for Enrollment Management Jimmy Jung was interviewed about UMaine enrollment for an Associated Press article about enrollments within the University of Maine System. Several news outlets, including the Bangor Daily News, the Boston Globe website and The Republic in Columbus, Ind., ran the report. In spite of almost universal enrollment […]
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David Gross, professor emeritus of English at the University of Oklahoma, has been named interim dean of the University of Maine Honors College, where he has been a part-time faculty member since 2005. Gross has been endorsed by University of Maine System Chancellor James H. Page and recommended to the Board of Trustees as interim […]
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The Castine Patriot published a feature story about the Maine Physical Sciences Partnership (PSP), a collaboration of some 50 rural Maine schools, three University of Maine colleges, three Maine nonprofits with expertise in science education, and science and technology leaders at the Maine Department of Education to promote the teaching and learning of physical sciences […]
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Dana Morse, a member of the Marine Extension Team and a Maine Sea Grant researcher based at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, was interviewed for a Channel 5 (WABI) news report on a workshop held at the University of Maine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast to discuss the value and commercial potential of native […]
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Several area news organizations, including the Bangor Daily News, covered the closing ceremony of the 2012 Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium, which ended Thursday after six weeks of cutting, grinding and polishing of massive granite works of art by sculptors from Maine and around the world. Channel 7 (WVII) also covered the closing ceremony. The Equities.com […]
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The Fenceviewer, an affiliated online publication of the Ellsworth American, has reported on complaints a Franklin property owner has raised over noise emitted from the nearby University of Maine Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research. Stewart Harvey, UMaine interim director of facilities management, explained the importance of the facility’s water chillers, which are blamed for the […]
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