UMaine News

Contact: None Nov. 4 Blithe Spirit, 7:30 p.m., Hauck Auditorium Part of the School of Performing Arts theater; also Nov. 3-5, 7:30 p.m. & Nov. 6, 2 p.m. Sweet Honey in the Rock, 8 p.m., MCA (Admission) Nov. 5 17th Annual Culturefest, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Memorial Gym, featuring exhibits, games, food court, music, art and […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Keeping up with changing state and federal regulations is a constant struggle and huge responsibility for Maine public school administrators. Now busy K-12 school leaders can find the latest updates on school law and liability in the recently released second edition of “Legal Issues for Maine Educators,” […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Students from 11 Maine high schools will sharpen their leadership and mediation skills during The Courage to Create Change Conference, taking place Friday, Nov. 4 at the University of Maine. One hundred students and 20 advisors will attend the daylong conference to learn how to deal with […]

Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4401, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum is offering home gardeners a chance on Nov. 8 to learn all they ever wanted to know about growing tomatoes. “Tomato City” co-owner Tom Roberts of Snakeroot Organic Farm in Pittsfield is the scheduled guest speaker at the museum’s […]

Contact: Charlene Herrick, 581-3204 or 800-648-0597 (in Maine) JONESBORO — The University of Maine’s Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station is hosting a public open house at the university’s new Wild Blueberry Research Facility at Blueberry Hill Farm on Route 1 in Jonesboro on Wednesday, Nov. 9. A ceremony begins at 11:30 a.m., to be followed […]

Contact: Karen Cole, 581-4704; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – For the first performance in the newly renovated Hauck Auditorium, the UMaine School of Performing Arts has conjured up an enchanting play for Halloween weekend, complete with seances, ghosts and mischievous mayhem. Written in 1941 by British playwright Noel Coward and directed by Marcia Joy Douglas, […]

Contact: George Criner at (207) 581-3150; Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO, ME.— As part of a research project aimed at increasing demand for Maine maple syrup, a local restaurant will offer special maple syrup-based menu items this weekend. Researchers in the University of Maine’s Dept. of Resource Economics and Policy, Cooperative Extension, Maine Agricultural […]

Contact: Kathryn Hopkins, 207-474-9622 or 800-287-1495; or Dave Fuller, 207-778-3892 or 800-287-1478 SKOWHEGAN–Next time you

Contact: Lenard Kaye, 581-3444; Noreen Peters, 941-2347 ORONO – For Maine children being raised by grandparents or relatives other than biological parents, cultural differences can seriously affect the quality of a family’s experience with community support services such as schools or social service providers. How social workers, guidance counselors, teachers and family members respond to […]

Contact: Kyriacos Markides, 581-2390; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — A chance meeting by young sociologist Kyriacos Markides in the late 1970s with a Christian shaman in Cyprus halted research for a book on international terrorism but ignited a personal passion that has made the UMaine professor of sociology an internationally recognized authority on healers […]