Three events are being held in July at the University of Maine Rogers Farm Forage and Crop Research Facility on Bennoch Road in Stillwater to highlight sustainable agricultural research being conducted there. On July 3, a research tour organized by UMaine Extension sustainable agriculture specialist Ellen Mallory is being offered for a group of 35 […]
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A University of Maine Cooperative Extension-sponsored initiative seeks to build individual, group and organizational capacity to strengthen what is working well for public school teachers while creatively and effectively garnering the support needed to address what needs attention.
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A gardening column in the Portland Press Herald about peonies now blooming in Maine noted that $2 donations collected from visitors at gardener Ken Liberty’s open house June 23 at 23 Ohio Street in Bangor will benefit several nonprofit groups, including the University of Maine’s Lyle E. Littlefield Ornamentals Trial Garden, which now has various […]
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An article in the Waterville Morning Sentinel about how public consciousness of domestic violence has changed in the last four decades included comments from Mazie Hough, associate director of women’s studies at the University of Maine. Hough said what started in the 1970s as a grassroots feminist movement to establish domestic violence projects and influence […]
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A New England Cable News (NECN.com) interview about keeping kids safe from bullying and hazing at summer sports camps cited groundbreaking research by University of Maine College of Education and Human Development faculty members Elizabeth Allan and Mary Madden that showed 47 percent of more than 11,000 students surveyed on 53 campuses nationwide reported they […]
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Several University of Maine collaborative partnerships helping research and design new water, wind and wave energy industries were included in an article in Maine Insights about how much money is being spent on out-of-state oil and gasoline, which could be reduced through the development of innovative local and renewable energy resources. The article included comments […]
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The news website Fenceviewer, an affiliate of the Ellsworth American, reported on a presentation before an Ellsworth Area Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting by University of Maine economists Jim McConnon, a University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and professor of economics, and Todd Gabe, a UMaine School of Economics researcher and faculty member. They discussed […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension professor and blueberry specialist David Yarborough was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article published in the Kennebec Journal and other news outlets about pollination problems in many Maine blueberry barrens caused by last week’s gloomy weather, which discouraged honeybees from doing their work buzzing from flower to flower. Bees […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) ran an Associated Press report that included comments from University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist David Handley about how the 2012 crop is shaping up. Handley said favorable weather last fall and early warm weather this spring has helped produce a “terrific” strawberry bloom now. Maine Public Broadcasting […]
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University of Maine political scientists Mark Brewer and Amy Fried were interviewed for analytical articles about the candidates for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Republican Olympia Snowe. Fried was interviewed for a Washington Post article on former Maine Gov. Angus King’s bid for the seat. Brewer told The Republic that Democrats seeking […]
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