Features:

• Business and Public Policy Pay Dirt At the Maine Compost School, businesses and communities learn the value of waste
• Business and Public Policy Lake Effect Fathoming the ecological, economic and social interactions for better planning

• Education Education Delivered UMaine Technology Drives Distance Learning
• Sciences Turbulent Lives UMaine researchers study the role of diverse cell shapes in phytoplankton ecology

• Sciences Agents of Change UMaine anthropologist studies the roles humans and climate play in transforming Peru's coast

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Departments:

• President's Message The land-grant university concept that dates to the Civil War has brilliantly withstood the test of time
• Extra Curricular One town has turned its root cellars into a drawing card for visitors

• Insights A new study by a University of Maine economist estimates the cost of preventable, environmentally related childhood illnesses in Maine
• Discovering What's Next Converting pulp mill and marine algae processing plant by-products into high-quality biofuel

• University of Maine Foundation More and more University of Maine students have applied for the opportunity to experience Alternative Spring Break
• Extension Connection Maine potato farmers saved an estimated $17 million of their 2008 crop from potential threats such as late blight

• Student Focus There's more to the sky than meets the eye