Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — More than 90 outstanding students and faculty members at the University of Maine were honored for scholarship and outstanding character April 14 at the UMaine chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi’s spring initiation and awards ceremony. Phi Kappa Phi is the nation’s oldest and […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine Center on Aging on the Orono campus and Eastern Agency on Aging in Bangor are partnering up for a gala swing dance fundraiser — “A Celebration of Generations” — on May 8. The third annual event features local musicians The Moon Puppies playing […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — He’s called controversial, irreverent, even angry, but writer and public speaker Sherman Alexie, a Spokane Indian from Wellpinit, Wash. most of all wants people to better understand the dilemmas facing Native Americans today. Alexie, an internationally known poet, author and screenwriter will deliver a frank and provocative […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — High-level speakers representing the pulp and paper industry and large consumers of its products will be at the University of Maine on Thursday April 15 and Friday April 16 for the UMaine Pulp and Paper Foundation’s annual open house. UMaine chemical engineering and civil engineering students will […]
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Contact: Roger Merchant, Cooperative Extension, 1-800-287-1491 (in Maine)Todd Gabe, Dept. of Resource Economics and Policy, 207-581-3307Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO– Just over 1,000 households in Piscataquis County will receive a survey the week of April 12 on the subject of tourism development. With support from a $45,000 rural business opportunity grant from […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Nearly 60 musicians in the University of Maine Symphonic Band are on the road again April 14, as they begin their annual Maine public school tour. Their tour bus will make stops at public schools in Oxford Hills, Durham, Freeport, Brunswick, York and Bath. Musicians will work […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Alan Charles Kors of the University of Pennsylvania history faculty, who teaches European intellectual history and has served as editor-in-chief of the “Oxford Encyclopedia of Enlightenment,” will be the guest speaker at the 2004 University of Maine Phi Beta Kappa initiation. The event is scheduled for Thursday, […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3751 ORONO — The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum on the Orono campus is hosting a brown bag lunch discussion at noon Tuesday, April 13, on the increasing number of women in agriculture in Maine. The public is invited to the free event. Vivianne Holmes of the Maine chapter […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — To many Americans, Fidel Castro is a Cuban dictator. To Cubans, he is president, elected by a general assembly. Such is the difference in perceptions of Cuba, says Barbara Blazej of the University of Maine, whose students in a special travel-study class are inviting the public to […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — University of Maine graduate student Jovana Davidovic will play the part in the next University of Maine School of Performing Arts “Readers’ Theater” of Seada, one of five Bosnian women in a refugee camp struggling with the aftermath of war. Not surprisingly, she’s very sensitive about the […]
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