FARMINGTON — Sixteen tons of food scraps are mixed with animal waste each school semester by volunteers with the new Farmington Compost Cooperative to create a high-quality compost, students from the University of Maine at Farmington and Maine Compost School learned Tuesday. UMF environmental health students, led by teacher Kelly Bentley, and students from Maine Compost School, […]
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Gov. Paul LePage talks up his plans in Farmington
FARMINGTON — Gov. Paul LePage talked about lowering energy costs, reducing and eventually eliminating the state’s income tax, welfare reform and high student college loan debt during a town hall-style meeting Tuesday night at the University of Maine at Farmington. More meetings are being scheduled across the state. More than 100 people came out to […]
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LePage holding town meeting at UMF Tuesday
AUGUSTA — Republican Gov. Paul LePage will hold a one-hour town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the University of Maine at Farmington. The meeting will be in Thomas Auditorium in Preble Hall’s Room 117. The meeting, announced late Monday afternoon, is expected to focus on LePage’s, “vision for Maine, including further reducing the […]
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UMF professor gets grant to study severe forest fires in the west
FARMINGTON — During a time when the western U.S. is bracing for a historic fire season, Drew Barton, University of Maine at Farmington professor of biology, has received a $67,000 federal research grant to investigate impacts of high severity fires on forests in the West. Barton and his two collaborators, Helen Poulos of Wesleyan University […]
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New Hampshire writer, professor reads at UMF
FARMINGTON — Acclaimed New Hampshire writer Ben Nugent read to a room of students and residents Thursday evening in the Olsen Student Center as part of the University of Maine at Farmington’s Visiting Writers Series. The UMF Visiting Writers Series, which is run by the BFA Creative Writing Program and the Writer’s Guild, invites writers […]
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Trustees consider naming UMF building after former president
FARMINGTON — The University of Maine System Board of Trustees will consider naming the Education Center at the University of Maine at Farmington after Theodora J. Kalikow, former UMF president, during its September meeting. The board will meet at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 20, and at 8:30 a.m. Monday, Sept. 21, at the University of Maine […]
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UMF continues Best College standing
FARMINGTON — For the 18th year, the University of Maine at Farmington has been recognized as a “Best College” by the U.S. News & World Report. Once again, national rankings have named UMF a “Top Public Regional College” in the North, where it garnered the No. 6 position this year — behind only military and […]
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Professors share college experiences during UMF academic convocation
FARMINGTON — Three University of Maine at Farmington faculty members told incoming students Tuesday that college changed their lives for the better, taught them the value of service and opened up doors. The occasion was the academic convocation to mark the start of the college year. Dearborn Gym was filled with students and faculty, three of […]
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UMF listed as top Maine college in ‘Best Bang for the Buck’
FARMINGTON — Washington Monthly recognized the University of Maine at Farmington as the top Maine college for the College Guide’s 2015 “Best Bang for the Buck” rankings, according to a university news release. UMF is ranked No. 14 overall of 402 public and private colleges in the Northeast that were ranked by Washington Monthly’s “The […]
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UMF soccer field dedicated to Coach Robert Leib
FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington invites the public to a daytime field dedication and an evening celebration in honor of longtime UMF and community soccer coach Robert Leib on Saturday, Sept. 5. The University and UMF Athletics will dedicate the soccer field at Prescott Field to Leib at 1 p.m., between soccer alumni […]