Contact: Kathryn Olmstead, 581-3844, Patty Henner, 581-4100, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Middle schools throughout Maine recently received a booklet titled “Maine: A Place to Grow,” a collection of articles about Maine agriculture released this month in memory of the author, Anne S. Johnson of Orono. Johnson, who died in December, was a co-founder of […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO, Maine — Students from Monmouth Academy will put spaghetti noodles — Delverde perciatelli #6, to be precise — to the test during the third annual Spaghetti Bridge Breaking Competition at the University of Maine on May 25. The event will be held in Boardman Hall, room […]
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Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli 207.561.3352 ART EXHIBITION July 15 — October 8, 2005 Bangor, Maine – Inspired by the 100th anniversary of Adams’s birth in 2002, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film revisited its extensive collection of Adams’s work, creating a new exhibition of 150 photographs that reflects Adams’s full career. Ansel Adams: […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, (207) 581-4100, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum brown bag lunch lecture June 1 will feature organic herbalists Nancy Lowry and Roseanna Rich from Indian Meadows Herbals, LLC, a small Downeast company that produces home-grown salves, balms and creams. The one-hour program, which begins at […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — More than 50 Maine school districts representing nearly 160 communities will send school-community teams to the University of Maine to learn more about the Sports Done Right interscholastic athletics reform initiative during a free training session on Wednesday, May 25. The workshop runs from 9 a.m. to […]
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Contact: Alan Parks, 581-1236 ORONO –Three individuals will be honored Thursday, May 19, by the UMaine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies for outstanding vision and leadership that contribute to advancing the rights of people with disabilities and their families. The Daring to Dream Awards luncheon will be held Thursday, May 19 in the […]
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Contact: Karen Cole, (207) 581-4704, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Danny Williams of Orono, a long-time and enthusiastic supporter of music and arts at the University of Maine, is the 2005 recipient of the annual Vincent A. Hartgen Award. He has been involved in promoting the arts and music programs on and off the […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, 207-581-3777 ORONO, Maine — Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Michael Errigo didn’t have many chances to fish. He tried his luck once at the end of a city pier but didn’t catch a thing. Now, the tide may have turned for the University of Maine Ph.D. student in the School of […]
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Contact: Rick Redmond, (207) 991-1543, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The Maine Campus, the University of Maine’s student newspaper, recently collected a first place and two second place awards in a national collegiate competition in Stamford Conn. in April. In the Society of Professional Journalists’ Region 1 “Mark of Excellence Awards” competition, the UMaine […]
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Contact: Kelly Arsenault, Maine Learning Technology Initiative, (207) 592-1824; Bette Manchester, Maine Dept. of Education and MLTI, (207) 592-3993; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — More than 400 middle school students, teachers and parents from throughout Maine are on the University of Maine campus today for the second annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) iTEAM […]
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