The Downeast-based Fenceviewer.com news site advanced a planned November Hancock Business Conference and Trade Show in Ellsworth. The article includes quotes about small business in Maine from Gov. Paul LePage and UMaine Extension educator Louis Bassano, who says Maine businesses need access to cost-effective, high-quality training and information to succeed. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Caragh Fitzgerald was part of a panel discussion on farming in Maine and farming co-ops. The discussion was broadcast live on Maine Public Broadcasting Network. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Seacoastonline.com in southern Maine carried an article about UMaine music major Kayla Peard of York, Maine, who will graduate May 5 as salutatorian of her class. A member of the UMaine Honors College, Peard has a 4.0 GPA. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Gianna Marrs, interim director of the Office of Student Financial Aid at UMaine, and Connie Smith, associate director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, were interviewed Monday by Channels 5 (WABI), 2 (WLBZ) and 7 (WVII) about the burden of debt Maine’s college graduates are facing as the interest rate on government-backed student loans […]
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Several media outlets covered last Friday’s Maine Wind Blade and Windstorm Challenges, which were held in UMaine’s New Balance Student Recreation and Fitness Center. The Bangor Daily News interviewed several students who participated in the challenges, which featured competitions for middle and high school students to design, build, implement and test wind power technology components […]
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Jim Dill, University of Maine Cooperative Extension pest management specialist and professor of biological sciences was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article on expectations for seasonal insect populations, including mosquitoes, black flies, bees and garden grubs. Dill says the light winter may mean fewer mosquitoes, more grubs, and probably little change in black fly […]
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The Bangor Daily News has an article about the seasonal opening of the Orono Bog Boardwalk this morning, led by Grace Ferguson, wife of UMaine President Paul Ferguson. The boardwalk, which is visited by about 30,000 people a year, is jointly managed by the University of Maine, the Orono Land Trust and the city of […]
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Three engineers and a biochemist are the recipients of the top annual faculty awards at the University of Maine, which will be presented May 4 as part of the Academic Recognition Convocation.
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Rachel Binder-Hathaway of Millinocket has been named the valedictorian of the University of Maine Class of 2012. Kayla Peard of York is the salutatorian. Both will be honored during UMaine’s 210th Commencement slated for May 5 at Harold Alfond Sports Arena.
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The Bangor Daily News advanced Saturday’s Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium teachers’ workshop, which was held at UMaine in the Donald P. Corbett building and also in the UMaine art department’s sculpture workshop. Daniel Lux, a faculty member in the UMaine Department of Earth Sciences, was also noted as being scheduled to give a talk on […]
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