UMaine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant climate change educator Esperanza Stancioff was quoted in an Associated Press wire story about the changes in timing to the arrival of fall foliage, and the possible link to climate change. Stancioff, who runs the “Signs of the Seasons” phenology project in which gardeners, 4-H programs, teachers, students […]
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Seacoast Online, the website for a number of newspapers in southern Maine and New Hampshire, reported on an open house held in South Berwick, Maine, noted the presence of a display by the UMaine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener program. The story said the UMaine table had a composting bin with worms, and children who were […]
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The Bangor Daily covered Tuesday’s visit to the UMaine AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center by the international Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation, which is based in France. The OEDC was visiting to learn more about UMaine’s research into deepwater offshore wind power. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The University of Maine Safe Campus Project has become a full member of the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault, and Safe Campus Project coordinator Carey Nason has joined the coalition’s board of directors.
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Economic downtown. Property being seized. Available revenue declining. Sound familiar? Those headlines from the Great Depression are eerily similar to what we are hearing today.
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The Los Angeles-based Ocelot Era blog cites research by Sandra Caron, UMaine professor of family relations and human sexuality, in its Oct. 4 discussion about older women dating younger men. Caron and her former advisee, Nichole Proulx, conducted the research. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Drawing On, an exhibition of drawings by eight Maine artists, presents works drawn directly on the walls of the Lord Hall Gallery at the University of Maine. Working over the course of two weeks, the artists have created an environment of unique but temporary drawings that focus on the immediacy of the drawing process as […]
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Bangor television station WABI reported on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s visit Tuesday to UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center to learn about the center’s work in the area of deepwater offshore wind energy. Center Director Habib Dagher said in an interview that UMaine and the Paris-based OECD share the same interest […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about University of Maine Foundation President Amos Orcutt’s announcement Monday that he is resigning after more than 22 years at the organization. Orcutt said in an interview the foundation is doing well and it’s time for another person to take it to a higher level. The University of […]
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The New England Cable News website is carrying an Associate Press report on Tuesday’s visit to the UMaine AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center by the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which promotes economic policies that have a positive social impact. The group will get a tour and briefing on the DeepCwind Consortium, […]
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