Gianna Marrs, UMaine’s interim director of student financial aid, was quoted in a Portland Press Herald story about a negotiations in Congress to freeze the interest rate for federal-backed student loans. There is a chance the interest rate could double, and Marrs said her office is working with students to make sure they fully understand […]
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University of Maine College of Engineering Dean Dana Humphrey was interviewed Wednesday for a Maine Public Broadcasting report about UMaine’s new Brunswick Engineering program at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. Humphrey said the hands-on program is designed to increase the number of engineering students in Maine. Humphrey observed that Maine is currently 49th in […]
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University of Maine Center on Aging Director Len Kaye is available to discuss how the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on the proposed repeal of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act may affect Americans, older Americans and baby boomers in particular. Kaye, in Bangor, is at (207) 262-7922 or len.kaye@umit.maine.edu. The decision […]
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Adrienne Leppold, a University of Maine Ph.D. candidate in the School of Biology and Ecology, has been awarded a Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation fellowship for her work studying songbird migration in the Gulf of Maine. Leppold works with UMaine bird biologist Rebecca Holberton, who leads the Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network. More information about […]
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A four-state project comes as disappearing wild honey bee populations and dwindling commercial populations are impacting fruit and berry growers who rely on bees for crop pollination.
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An article appearing in the New York Daily News about blue, calico and orange lobsters at a Portland lobster pound cited the University of Maine Lobster Institute, which has calculated the odds of finding a blue lobster as a 2-in-1-million phenomenon and a calico lobster as a 1-in-30 million discovery. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist David Handley discussed this year’s early strawberry season in a Portland Press Herald feature article, which included recipes for cooking with strawberries. The article also noted a July 10 Cooperative Extension class in Falmouth on making, canning and freezing strawberry jam. Contact: George Manlove, (207) […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network interviewed University of Maine economics graduate student Travis Blackmer about research he and colleagues did last year through the School of Economics assessing the contents of household garbage samples throughout Maine, which revealed 60 percent of what was discarded could have been recycled or composted at substantial economic savings to […]
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