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Examples include student field trips to New Brunswick, Montr\u00e9al and Qu\u00e9bec city, a map project titled \u201cArctic cooling and the balance of the earth: mapping climate action at Inuit Nunangat\u2019\u2019 by world-renowned cartographer <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/publications\/coming-home-map\/\">Margaret Pearce<\/a>, four book projects and outreach initiatives for K-12 teachers in the U.S. Additionally, funds will be provided for holdings at the Fogler Library and Garbrecht Law library at the 91±¬ΑΟ School of Law, course development on cross-border issues, guest lecturers, a scholar-in-residence at the Hudson Museum, a sustainable tourism workshop and an initiative titled \u201cBuilding a Canadian-American Research Network to Support Small-Scale Fisheries and Community-Based Seafood Systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for all of your years of support, which made the earning of grants like these possible.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/news\/blog\/2022\/09\/07\/canadian-american-center-earns-1-55-million-to-preserve-add-programs-as-national-resource-center-on-canada\/?fbclid=IwAR2oTIPnh1uDGf10ukyWtahKigKu4tFXsNcYxU5zzrqYBKeGpfi4fC1HE9g\">here<\/a> to read more<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian-American Center at the 91±¬ΑΟ received two grants from the Department of Education totaling $1.55 million to continue offering programs, and incorporate new ones, as a National Resource Center on Canada The DOE awarded the the Canadian-American Center a $1.05 million National Resource Center Title VI Grant to maintain its activities for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1945,"featured_media":10593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"1","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"The Canadian-American Center at the 91±¬ΑΟ received two grants from the Department of Education totaling $1.55 million to continue offering programs, and incorporate new ones, as a National Resource Center on Canada","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2,"label":"News"},{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/149\/2022\/09\/Grant-Feature-1.png",1024,536,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"alefebvre","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/author\/alefebvre\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":2,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":239,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2,"category_count":239,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0},{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":81,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":81,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10551"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10640,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10551\/revisions\/10640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/canam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}