Contact: Nory Jones, 581-1971; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — A group of UMaine students and faculty or staff advisors is expecting as many as 1,000-2,000 people will attend a special event, “Care A-Fair, a Celebration of Student Giving,” on April 25, to celebrate relationships between the university student volunteers and the charitable organizations they serve. […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Former Maine Speaker of the House Michael Saxl will visit the University of Maine on Thursday April 2 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Saxl will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members. […]
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Contact: Francois Amar at (207) 581-1196; Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — One of the leading chemical researchers in renewable energy at the molecular level will be at the University of Maine for two lectures on Earth Day, April 22. Daniel Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry at the […]
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Contact: Laura Wilson, (207) 581-2971 ORONO, ME—University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer its Watershed Stewards program again this spring with a focus on Schoodic Lake and Sebec Lake. The seven-week workshop series will teach participants how to preserve their area lakes. Participants will learn about threats to water quality and how recreationists, lakefront landowners […]
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Contact: Andrea C. Hauck, 581-2410; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Motivational speaker and former Olympian Dominique Dawes, the first African-American to win gold in Olympic artistic gymnastics, will be at UMaine April 4 to lead the Fourth Annual Women’s Symposium, a program dedicated to annual community education and female advocacy. The event is free and […]
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Contact: Laurie Hicks at 581-3245; Joe Carr at 581-3571 2009 Juried Student Art ExhibitionDepartment of ArtLord Hall GalleriesUniversity of MaineGallery hours: 9 to 4 weekdays April 3 to May 1, 2009Opening and Awards Ceremony: Friday, April 10, 2009, 5:30-7:30 p.m. ORONO — The 2009 Juried Student Art Exhibition in the University of Maine Department of […]
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Contact: Nate Aldrich, nbaldrich@earthlink.com ORONO — Five University of Maine students from the Intermedia Master of Fine Arts program will present the collaborative multimedia work, “MCRCSM,” April 18, from 6-10 p.m. at the Cyrus Pavilion Theatre on the Orono campus. MCRCSM, which is free and open to the public, re-envisions a 1969 media event, “HPSCHD,” […]
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Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli, 207.561.3350 High resolution digital images available upon request BANGOR — The University of Maine Museum of Art will open three new exhiitions on April 17, part of a show that will run through June 18 at the downtown Bangor facility. Vessels Absent: Installation by Aaron Stephan April 17 – June 18, 2009 […]
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Contact: Jane E. Haskell, Extension educator, (207) 342-5971 WALDO, Me.– University of Maine Cooperative Extension will present “Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills, Level 1, Training Series” later this spring. Classes are scheduled for 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesdays April 14, April 28, May 12, May 26 and June 9 at the UMaine Extension Waldo County office, 992 Waterville […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine will host an intercollegiate lumberjack skills competition on Saturday, March 28 9 a.m.-3 p.m. The event is scheduled for the competition field at the end of Allagash Road, to the Park St. side of UMaine’s Sawyer Environmental Sciences Center. It will also be visible […]
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