Contact: Joe Carr at 581-3571 ORONO — Statewide leaders from business, government and education will be at the University of Maine on Tuesday, Sept. 26 for the 2006 Maine EPSCoR State Conference. EPSCoR, the National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, supports research in states that have historically been on the low end […]
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Contact: Pauleena MacDougall, 581-1848; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Staff members from the Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine are taking their “Save Our History” paper mills research project into the schools on Tuesday, Sept. 26, as they introduce Brewer Middle School students to the historic preservation of a defunct Brewer paper mill. […]
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Contact: Margo Lukens, 581-3823; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Three speakers, all scholars of Wabanaki culture, will present a variety of perspectives on 19th century Penobscot author Joseph Nicolar during a special program Monday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall in the Class of 1944 Hall. Nicolar wrote “Life and Traditions of […]
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Contact: Constant Albertson, 581-3251; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine Department of Art is accepting registration applications for the fall 2006 after school ArtWorks classes for area children. A program designed to give UMaine art education students supervised classroom experience with children and to provide community youngsters with art lessons, ArtWorks begins […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A new map and guide highlighting points in Hancock and Washington Counties that illustrate Maine’s geologic history will soon be available, and the University of Maine will host a Monday Oct. 2 event to celebrate its publication. It will begin at 10:30 a.m. at UMaine’s Buchanan Alumni […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — An open house is scheduled for the University of Maine’s newest building, the Student Innovation Center, on Thursday Sept. 28 form 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The Student Innovation Center will soon be online as home to academic programming and other activities related to entrepreneurism and innovation. It will […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist who has spent eight months covering the war in Iraq, will make two presentations at the University of Maine on Thursday, Sept. 28. Jamail will provide, from his unique perspective, his thoughts on the current political and cultural situation in Iraq, along […]
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Contact: Jack Burt, 581-1773; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — A UMaine faculty recital scheduled Saturday, Sept. 23, featuring trumpet professor Jack Burt and friends, promises an evening of musical classics, including a Haydn concerto and a suite from Gilbert and Sullivan. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall. […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Department of Continuing and Distance Education (DCDE) through the UMaine Division of Lifelong Learning this weekend begins its second annual three-credit-hour class designed around the 2006 Camden International Film Festival, a class that analyzes the making and meaning of documentary films. The course will teach […]
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Contact: Corey Pickett, Tanglewood, cpickett@umext.maine.edu, (207) 789-5803 Lincolnville, ME – Tanglewood 4-H Camp and Learning Center, a statewide program of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, recently continued the momentum of Tanglewood’s 25th year anniversary programming with a new program designed to give the future forestry workers of Maine a head start on their education. […]
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