Contact: Constant Albertson, 581-3251; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine Department of Art is accepting applications for the fall 2008 after-school ArtWorks program, allowing area children, kindergarten through grade 6 to explore the world of art through hands-on experiences in a variety of art media. ArtWorks classes will be held Oct. 17 […]
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Contact: Doug Allen, 581-3860 ORONO — The fall 2008 Socialist and Marxist Studies Series focuses this season on a variety of controversial topics of public interest, including: dealing with Jihadists; Israel, Palestine and Iran and the threat of war; fair trade coffee and NAFTA; and climate change. Sponsored by Marxist-Socialist Studies interdisciplinary minor, the series […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Editors note: a full house is expected for this event, so we have not provided ticket information. News coverage is welcome and an audio mult box will be available to assist in recording the event. ORONO — George Mitchell, the former U.S. Senate Majority Leader for whom UMaine’s Sen. […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 BELFAST, Me. — A new gift from Machias Savings Bank boosts private fundraising for the University of Maine Hutchinson Center expansion project past the $1.3 million mark, bringing the campaign to within $700,000 of its $2 million goal. Located in Belfast, the Hutchinson Center brings UMaine academic programming and […]
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Contact: Steve Barkan, (207) 581-2383 ORONO — Steven Barkan, UMaine professor of sociology, recently became president of the national Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP). He will serve a one-year term through August 2009. Ballots were cast by the society’s national membership through email. Barkan served the previous year as president-elect. As president, […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — A UMaine graduate student has won runner-up honors in a prestigious international conservation and nature photography competition. Dane Wojcicki was honored in the student category of the International Conservation Photography Awards 2008 competition. His photograph of a bird, a juvenile Dunlin, was taken on a recent University of Maine […]
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Contact: Patrick Pittis at patrick_pittis@umit.maine.edu ORONO — They just moved in and they’re already camping out. Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp) fraternity at the University of Maine is hosting the annual Camp Out for YouthAIDS on the corner of the UMaine’s Mall, near Fogler Library. SigEp will be on the mall collecting donations for YouthAIDS through […]
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Contact: Amy Blackstone, 581-2392; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine sociologist Amy Blackstone has received a $125,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to fund a two-year study of workplace harassment of older workers in Maine. Conventional thinking may associate workplace harassment with younger or culturally different demographic groups, but given the state’s aging workforce, […]
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Contact: Amos E. Orcutt, University of Maine Foundation President/CEO, 207 581-5100 ORONO — On June 9, 1934,the University of Maine Class of 1909 presented a check for $1,000 to the newly formed University of Maine Foundation. The foundation’s investment of that gift and the many gifts that followed has resulted in total assets now exceeding […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Some 700 student, faculty and staff volunteers were on hand this morning at the University of Maine to welcome the university’s largest-ever first-year class. In keeping with UMaine tradition, arriving students and their families are met by “Maine Hello” volunteers who assist in the move-in process. […]
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