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umf in the news By April Mulherin

From lef: M. F. “Chip”
Gavin, University of
Maine System director
of facilites management
and general services;
Karl Turner, UMS
Trustee; Drew Barton,
UMF professor
of biology; Laurie
Gardner, executve
director of fnance and
administraton; UMF
President Kathryn Foster
and Gerald “Jerry”
Cayer, chair of the
UMF Board of Visitors
and the executve vice
president of Franklin
Community Health
Network.

New Biomass Heating Plant obtained from plant-based materials and shrubs natve to Maine will
To Reduce Carbon Footprint (typically woodchips) in Maine. Aligning be planted around campus afer
with the University’s emphasis on constructon is completed. This
UMF will heat many of the campus environmental stewardship, the plant additon to the campus biomass
buildings with energy from a new biomass is expected to replace 390,000 gallons project is paid for with a $7,300
central heatng plant to be built on of heatng oil now used to heat the Project Canopy grant from
campus later this summer. As reported by buildings through individual systems the Maine Forest Service and
the Sun Journal, an ofcial groundbreaking and is projected to reduce carbon GrowSmart Maine obtained by
took place earlier this spring for the emissions by 3,000 tons a year. To students in Andrea Nurse’s frst-year
eco-friendly 5,885-square-foot plant that complement the new reducton in seminar course.
will burn renewable, locally-sourced fuel carbon emissions, 20 full-size trees

Standout Grad Presents Research to Governor as Maine Policy Scholar

Charles Young ’15, UMF graduate and the the ConnectME Authority in a way
2014-15 Maine Policy Scholar, recently that would create more broadband
delivered his policy research at the competton in Maine. In additon to
program’s graduaton. Young’s “memo his role as UMF Maine Policy Scholar,
to the governor” presented his research Young, a natve of Steep Falls, graduated
study on how the state of Maine can in May from UMF magna cum laude in
best foster growth and improvement in just three years with a bachelor of arts
high-speed Internet service, according to degree in politcal science. He will be
the Sun Journal. His recommendatons atending Sufolk University in Boston
included creatng a bond referendum in the fall studying towards a master’s
to provide service to those without degree in public administraton.
basic Internet access and revitalizing

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