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Launch party for the latest edition of The Open Field on April 4

English undergraduate students Paige McHatten and Julia Hills, the student editors of The University of Maine’s undergraduate literary magazine The Open Field, are hosting a launch party for the 2024 installment of the publication with other editors and contributors at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 4 in the Writing Center, room 402 of Neville Hall. […]

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Share feedback on UMaine residential housing through April focus groups

The University of Maine System has engaged with a national consulting team to conduct a Residential Housing Analysis for the University of Maine and its regional campus, the University of Maine at Machias. An essential part of this analysis includes conducting focus groups with student residents at UMaine.  UMaine will hold the following resident focus […]

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Eos highlights Laatsch’s team preparing for total solar eclipse

Eos highlighted Shawn Laatsch, director of the Versant Power Astronomy Center at the University of Maine, participating in the total solar eclipse by helping coordinate the Citizen Continental America Telescopic Eclipse (CATE) 2024 project. The effort, which builds on a similar project conducted around the 2017 total solar eclipse, is looking to place roughly 35 […]

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Sentry promotes Maine Big Night

The South Portland Sentry interviewed Greg LeClair, University of Maine Ph.D. student and founder of Maine Big Night, regarding the impact of the event. Maine Big Night is a nonprofit community science project established to help save amphibians from getting hit by cars on roads. It is a community-driven effort, spearheaded by volunteers dedicated to […]

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Mainebiz promotes UMaine’s Hotel Ursa grand opening

Mainebiz promoted Hotel Ursa, the first hotel on the campus of a Maine public college, opening  at the University of Maine. Hotel Ursa has 95 guest rooms, a cafe and a bar, among other offerings. The hotel was developed through a historic rehabilitation of two original buildings on campus, Coburn Hall and Holmes Hall, and […]

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UMaine’s Lord Hall to host 2024 student art exhibition April 3-28

Lord Hall Gallery will host the University of Maine Department of Art’s 2024 Student Exhibition from April 3-28.  Undergraduates who were enrolled in an art class in Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 had the opportunity to submit up to six pieces of artwork made in their UMaine classes and selections were made by a guest […]

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