Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — University of Maine Spanish Professor Kathleen March of the Department of Modern Languages and Classics and five current or former students have embarked upon a cooperative pilot project tutoring Spanish-speaking migrant workers Downeast. The twist, however, is instead of helping Spanish-speaking families with English as a second […]
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Contact: Kyle Webster, UMaine Student Government at (207) 581-1787 ORONO — Actor and activist Derrick Ashong will present a lecture entitled “Killing Cool: Igniting the Soul of Society” in 114 Little Hall at the University of Maine on Tuesday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. The lecture is presented by the Guest Lecture Series, a subdivision […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571, Holly Williams at 581-1700 ORONO — The second annual University Bookstore Commemorative Ornament will be unveiled on Thursday, Sept. 23 at 12:30 p.m. in the University of Maine Bookstore. This program is intended to celebrate and recognize UMaine organizations that best live up to the spirit of the holiday […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571, Steve Evans at 581-3809 Please note: an incomplete version of this news release was inadvertently sent yesterday. Please use this copy. Thank you. ORONO — Nine poets from around the country and abroad will highlight the New Writing Series at the University of Maine this fall. Sponsored, in part, […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu ORONO, Maine — In an ongoing collaboration between the University of Maine
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The opening concert of the of the School of Performing Arts 2004 Music Series on Saturday, Sept. 18 features the University of Maine faculty ensemble, Cadenzato, and offers an evening of vibrant chamber music. “The music ranges from the 18th Century music to music of today,” says […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Playwright and performer Linda Park-Fuller will perform her personal narrative about breast cancer, “A Clean Breast of It,” on Sept. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Al Cyrus Pavilion Theatre at the University of Maine. Framed by statistical information, humor and song, “A Clean Breast of It” […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Two special exhibits open Sept. 14 at the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine, one a rare assemblage of photographs of Navaho Indians in the early 1950s, the other a collection of stylized pottery bowls painted by the Mimbres peoples. Both exhibits focus on the native […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Nipmuc Indian flute-maker Hawk Henries will perform Sunday, Sept. 19 at 3 p.m. at Minsky Recital Hall at the University of Maine, combining a flute concert with a discussion of Nipmuc tribal history and his flute-making. Nipmucs are the original people of central New England and are […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine has converted its Journal of Research in Rural Education to an exclusively online, open-access journal (www.umaine.edu/jrre). Founded in 1982 by the UMaine College of Education and Human Development and published through the College’s Center for Research and Evaluation, JRRE disseminates the results […]
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