USM Collaborates to Discuss Gender and Culture
PORTLAND – USM recently partnered with Portland High School and the Portland Mentoring Alliance (PMA) to provide a unique college visit for students in the PMA.
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St. John Valley Farmers Participate in Biomass Grass Feasibility Study
More than a dozen farmers from across the St. John Valley convened at the University of Maine at Fort Kent recently to hear a presentation on the feasibility of growing biomass grasses, which can be manufactured into heating-producing pellets.
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UMF Research Partnership Receives National Science Foundation Grant to Study Connection of Environment and Long-Term Economic Development
FARMINGTON—A University of Maine at Farmington faculty research group has received a 2012-2013 National Science Foundation EPSCoR Grant of more than $89,000 to continue its study of the relationship of the environment to long-term economic sustainability in the Rangeley Lakes Region of western Maine.
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UMaine Tidal Initiative Meeting Brings Together Researchers, Businesses and Government Officials
Representatives from federal and state agencies, businesses, local communities and the University of Maine will gather on Tuesday, Sept. 18, in Trescott, Maine, for a review meeting of the Maine Tidal Power Initiative.
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USM, UMM Enrolling Students for Master’s in Rehabilitation Counseling Program
MACHIAS, Maine – The University of Southern Maine, in collaboration with the University of Maine at Machias, is currently enrolling students for its 54-credit graduate degree in rehabilitation counseling. The Machias cohort will begin coursework in summer 2013.
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MSSM, UMPI sign agreement to provide college credit to high schoolers
LIMESTONE – The Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone and the University of Maine at Presque Isle signed a unique collaborative learning agreement on Wednesday, May 16, that will allow MSSM students to earn college credit while still in high school, giving them a significant and cost-saving head start on college.
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UMF Partnership for Civic Advancement Creates New Campus-Community Collaborations
The UMF Partnership for Civic Advancement, a new internship-based initiative to engage students in the community, recently celebrated its first year in operation. The student internships are designed in collaboration with the western Maine community to address economic and community development priorities while also achieving student learning objectives.
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Students recycle, ‘upcycle’ trash at UMF
FARMINGTON — Gloved hands sifted swiftly through bags of trash Wednesday, finding paper, disposable cups, foil-lined granola-bar wrappers and uneaten food that could have been recycled.
For the fifth year, members of the Sustainable Campus Coalition at the University of Maine at Farmington rummaged through bags of garbage collected over a 24-hour period in campus residence halls.
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Maine programs train next generation of leaders
AUGUSTA, Maine — When Leadership Maine was launched by the nonprofit Maine Development Foundation 20 years ago, staff would recruit people to attend the training program by speaking at Kiwanis and Rotary clubs.
Now, Cheryl Miller, who coordinates the yearlong program, says she has to turn away applicants, most of whom are referred by Leadership Maine alumni or required to attend by the businesses or nonprofit organizations for which they work.
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Young Maine merchants fearless
The Great Recession and an economy that has remained sluggish have provided a daunting backdrop to would-be entrepreneurs over the past few years. But even with unemployment among young adults more than double that of the rest of the state’s work force, some ambitious twenty-somethings in Greater Portland have bucked the odds and started their own businesses.
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Maine Higher Ed Partnership Aims to Boost Ranks of Engineers
When it comes to the per capita production of engineers, Maine ranks 49th in the nation. In an effort to boost those numbers, the University of Maine and Southern Maine Community College are working together to provide two different engineering programs at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. Patty Wight reports on a unique effort to make the midcoast an engineering hub for the state.
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With their own ideas for startup, Mainers make pitch to investors
PORTLAND – With Facebook’s initial public offering seen as a startup company’s dream, 13 entrepreneurial firms pitched their products Wednesday night, hoping to become the next big thing.
Upstart companies from across Maine presented their hopes, dreams and business plans to a panel of venture capitalists, business executives and professors at the University of Southern Maine’s Wishcamper Center. About 150 people attended the presentations.
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GWI to build high-speed network around UMaine
Biddeford-based GWI Inc. plans to build an ultra-high-speed Internet network surrounding the University of Maine campus to boost economic development. Part of the national Gig.U initiative, the network will be one of the fastest business-residential networks in the country.
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USM Receives Approval to Offer Bachelor’s Degree in Tourism and Hospitality
The University of Maine System Board of Trustees recently approved a new tourism and hospitality program at the University of Southern Maine.
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UMaine Machias Students Learn Valuable GIS Skills
MACHIAS — Jobs await students enrolled in the GIS programs at the University of Maine at Machias.
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UMF Offers Early Childhood Education Bachelor’s Degree Program at SMCC
University of Maine at Farmington announces that it will begin offering classes at Southern Maine Community College in UMF’s Early Childhood Education Off-Campus Bachelor’s Degree Program in fall 2012.
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