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Chris Brannigan stopped in Brunswick on Sept. 6 during the 1,000 mile, barefoot trek down the eastern seaboard that ended Monday.

The biomedical research institute, which produces specialized mice for use in scientific investigations worldwide, is on the front lines of battling the pandemic. Now JAX needs more personnel to help with the fight.

JAX is buying a Japan-based research animal producer, a subsidiary of a Massachusetts company, to expand the Bar Harbor organization's international reach.

Maine employers grapple with office policies amid constant change Many companies plan to continue experimenting with new ways of working that involve more flexibility and remote work options. Share Nate Wildes, owner of Flight Deck and executive director of Live + Work in Maine, at Flight Deck in Brunswick on July 16, 2021. Wildes said many Maine businesses havent yet determined what their long-term work policies will be after the coronavirus pandemic. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographe...

Philip Morris International is bringing its vision for a ‘smoke-free’ tobacco future to Connecticut, but why is the company moving here? Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant Almost immediately after Gov. Ned Lamont announced, and defended, Philip Morris International’s move to Connecticut from New York, the tobacco giant launched an advertising blitz touting its work to become “smoke-free” and how the state’s role in scientific research can help it reach that goal. Anti-...

EYP Architects and Engineers, a national company, with offices in Boston. The building will incorporate cross-laminated timber. The 200,000-square-foot building in the Westbrook development, as well as well as the two that make up Rock Rows medical campus, arent EYPs first in Maine. The integrated design firm, which specializes in higher education, government, health care, and science and technology architecture, designed Jackson Labs Ellsworth campus, renovating a former Lowes into a 135,...

With the summer tourism season rapidly approaching, Morning Edition Host Irwin Gratz got an update from three Mainers who previously shared the outlook from their corners of the state on his show.

Committee approves renaming UMaine lecture hall after first Black mathematics graduate Born in Bangor, Beryl Warner Williams was the first Black graduate to earn a mathematics degree from the University of Maine. Author: Alex Haskell (NCM) Updated: 8:33 AM EDT May 6, 2021 ORONO, Maine — Changing the controversial name of a lecture hall was the topic of discussion at a University of Maine Finance, Facilities and Technology Committee meeting Wednesday morning.  ...

UMaine valedictorian Bailey West embarking on a journey to make a difference through research George Harvey University of Maine valedictorian Bailey West. (Courtesy University of Maine) ORONO — University of Maine valedictorian Bailey West is impassioned by scientific research. She has been, in fact, since her days as a student at Searsport District High School.  West has been involved in research since high school, first with scientists at the Jackson Laboratory, MDI Biological Laboratory ...

increase font size UMaine System trustees to consider renaming C.C. Little Hall A committee will consider naming the lecture hall for Beryl Warner Williams, who held two degrees from UMaine and was affiliated with the NAACP, the National Council of Negro Women and the American Red Cross. Share A committee of the University of Maine System Board of Trustees will consider renaming a lecture hall on the Orono campus that for more than half a century has borne the name of a former university presi...