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Published
November 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.
Published
October 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.
Published
October 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.
Published
September 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.
Published
September 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.

Published
September 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.
Published
September 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.
Published
August 23, 2023

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.
Published
August 22, 2023

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.
Published
August 19, 2023

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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