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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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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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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Talk on ‘Vacationland or Climate Migrationland’ set for Sept. 11
ORONO — The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine plans to host a talk, “Vacationland or Climate Migrationland?,” at 3 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11. The talk, with speaker Vanessa Levesque, assistant professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Southern Maine, will be […]
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Our View: UMaine System once again fails to be transparent
The state university system is withholding public information related to the bungled hiring of a new president last year at the University of Maine at Augusta.
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Maine rural communities set to receive $11 million in federal funding
The University of Maine will get $1 million to establish a new green energy and materials manufacturing center.
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Research at Baxter seeks to identify plants that will adapt to global warming
Scientists say sediment taken from below Chimney Pond, and other Alpine lakes in the Northeast, will yield a fossil record of the plants – those that have died out and those that have survived – since the last ice age.
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UMaine professor’s computer model tells the story of Earth’s changing climate
Recent news coverage of the planet’s record-breaking heat wave relied on the online climate visualization tool developed Sean Birkel, who is also the state climatologist.
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UMaine Center on Aging launches online Age-Friendly Resources hub
ORONO — The University of Maine Center on Aging has launched the Age-Friendly University Resources hub at umaine.edu. It is a centralized repository for educational materials, services, events, volunteer opportunities and other activities for older people offered by UMaine, the University of Maine at Machias, and University of Maine Cooperative Extension. The various resources are […]
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UMaine System ready to recognize union for graduate student workers
An agreement in the works means the union and University of Maine System administrators can forgo government intervention.