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PublishedMarch 25, 2024
‘Signs of the Season’ citizen science trainings scheduled
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PublishedMarch 1, 2024
Maine colleges, universities partner with defense industry to recruit and train thousands of workers
As overseas military threats multiply, the U.S. defense industry is looking to vastly scale up hiring and worker training, including in Maine.
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PublishedJanuary 9, 2024
Alfond Foundation donates $80 million more for UMaine athletic facility upgrades
The gift, which comes on top of $90 million the foundation awarded to the university in 2022, will go toward building a new complex for soccer and track and field, expanding the Shawn Walsh Center and adding a new multipurpose practice facility.
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PublishedNovember 22, 2023
Professor, tribal leader bring context to ‘First Thanksgiving’ story
The popularized version of the meal shared by Indigenous people and English settlers in 1621 is based on a real event, but also has fed into long-held myths about native people and colonialism, scholars say.
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PublishedOctober 10, 2023
UMaine developing interactive tool to track PFAS nationwide
A university team is creating a tracker that strives to connect state and federal testing data back to the likely source of contamination, note the potential impacts on food and water supplies and map out how PFAS travels through the environment.
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PublishedOctober 7, 2023
Commentary: Maine will be a valuable partner to an independent Greenland
The world's largest island is in the process of seceding from Denmark. Some Mainers will have front-row seats to this instructive process.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2023
UMaine wants to lure people back to school to finish college degrees
The University of Maine System is offering new financial incentives that it hopes will attract some of the more than 280,000 Maine residents with partially completed degrees.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2023
UMaine System hopes to invest $1.2 billion in 400 projects over the next 5 years
Saying an investment in the schools' infrastructure is overdue, leaders of the system and the individual universities laid out capital plans for the next 5 years at a board of trustees meeting Monday.
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PublishedSeptember 8, 2023
Bates College ranked among least economically diverse elite universities in U.S.
A New York Times analysis of 286 elite colleges and universities found that the Lewiston school has one of the lowest percentages of the low-income students who qualify for Pell Grants. Bowdoin and Colby colleges also have below-average economic diversity, according to the research.
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2023
Colby College professor studying how wildfire smoke fuels climate change
Assistant chemistry professor Greg Drozd says it's clear there is a feedback loop – climate change leading to more wildfires and wildfires leading to more warming – and is trying to determine the magnitude of the effect.
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