Lois Stack, an ornamental horticulture specialist for UMaine’s Cooperative Extension and a professor of sustainable agriculture, was interviewed for a Kennebec Journal story about the USDA’s new plant hardiness zone map, which was released last week and shows how growing zones have changed since the last growing guide was published 22 years ago. Stack said […]
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The next in a series of one-hour information-gathering sessions President Ferguson has organized over the next few weeks to solicit input for UMaine’s strategic plan will take place will take place from 10-11 a.m. today, Jan. 30, in the McIntire Room of Buchanan Alumni House. The subject area is Academic Programs. For a complete list […]
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An economic impact survey of elder Maine residents receiving regular visits by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Senior Companion Program has concluded that the program saved at least $4.6 million in 2011 by supporting elders choosing to remain in their own homes. A news release has details. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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The Bangor Daily News advanced the Feb. 1 Career Fair planned by UMaine’s Career Center at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. Representatives from some 85 companies, organizations and graduate school programs are looking to meet UMaine and other colleges students who could land internships and full or part time jobs. Contact: Patty Counihan, (207) […]
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Maine Public Broadcasting Network interviewed Ann Acheson of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center for a Thursday Maine Things Considered news report about research done by the Center on poverty levels in Maine for the Maine Community Action Association. It says children and older Maine residents are increasingly living in poverty, and that an average […]
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An opinion column in a recent edition of the Bangor Daily News by Mike Hastings, director of the UMaine’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, described the Maine Congressional Delegation created by then-U.S. Sen. Ed Muskie in 1973 to provide a bipartisan forum in Washington for Maine’s~representatives to discuss on a monthly basis the needs […]
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An economic impact survey of elder Maine residents receiving regular visits by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Senior Companion Program has concluded that the program saved at least $4.6 million in 2011 by supporting elders choosing to remain in their own homes.
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To solicit input for UMaine’s strategic plan, a series of one-hour information-gathering sessions will take place over the next several weeks. The Friday, January 27 session on university sustainability will be held at noon in 102 York Complex. The subject area is Interdisciplinary Research Initiative. For a complete list of topics, dates and locations, visit […]
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The website Bleacher Report named Orono one of the nation’s 50 best hockey cities. The ranking cited the “fantastic players” that have come out of UMaine and also the “red-hot” hockey community. Orono was ranked 29th, ahead of communities with NHL teams such as Anaheim, Calif., Dallas, and Tampa Bay. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, in conjunction with the Maine Community Action Association, today released a county-by-county report on poverty in Maine (PDF) revealing that, based on recently released figures from the U.S. Census, 12.9 percent of the state’s population was living in poverty in 2009-2010, up from 12.4 percent in […]
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