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Public Invited to Free Master Classes with Brass Artists

The public is invited to a series of master classes in April, the first featuring trumpeter Bryan Davis, and others with Mnozil Brass as part of the University of Maine School of Performing Arts season. Davis, a British trumpeter, based in New York City, will perform as a guest artist with the UMaine Jazz Ensemble […]

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Natural Science Illustration Workshop Aug. 5–9

The University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole will offer a Natural Science Illustration Workshop from Aug. 5–9. Participants will have the opportunity to collect and draw live marine specimens and work with instructor David Wheeler’s collection of shells, bones and artifacts. Wheeler, who teaches at the Pratt Institute’s Center Extension Campus at Munson-Williams-Proctor […]

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Marine Scientist Jeremy Jackson to Speak April 11

The transformation of the world’s oceans due to overfishing, pollution and climate change will be the focus of a lecture at the University of Maine by a senior scientist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution. Jeremy Jackson’s lecture, “Ocean Apocalypse,” begins at 4 p.m. April 11 in Wells Conference Center, sponsored by the UMaine School of […]

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Upward of 120 Presentations Expected at 2013 GradExpo

University of Maine graduate students will present their research, artistic works, projects and collaborations during the 2013 Graduate Academic Exposition, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Thursday and Friday, March 28–29. This year more than $10,000 in cash prizes will be awarded to graduate student participants. The GradExpo will be held in the new Innovative Media Research and […]

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UMaine’s Page Museum to Celebrate Maine Maple Sunday

Children and their families are invited to join the Page Farm and Home Museum’s celebration of Maine Maple Sunday from 1–3 p.m., March 24 at the University of Maine. The event begins at the museum with a video, “The Maple Sugaring Story.” For youngsters in grades K–5, there will be activities, games and stories about […]

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University of Maine Spring Break Projects List

Dozens of University of Maine students will spend spring break March 4–15 in far-away places doing volunteer work in schools, hospitals, animal shelters, orphanages, nature preserves, farms and building housing and a Honduran village’s first sewage system. Here is a partial list of places and projects. Honduras — Five student members of the UMaine chapter […]

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