Contact: Rebekah Smith, 542-6015 (media inquiries only) Maine NEW Leadership, a University of Maine initiative that aims to educate and empower women to become civic and political leaders, is accepting applications for its inaugural class. The program will take place at UMaine from June 11 to 16; applications are due March 20. Twenty-five college-age women […]
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Contact: Brenton Murray, 480-201-4678 or Tim Brauer, 203-414-6143 ORONO — Members of the Habitat for Humanity — UMaine Campus Chapter A — are sponsoring a concert Feb. 7 as a follow-up to the Feb. 2-4 sleep-out, when students at the University of Maine will camp out for three days in makeshift shanties on the university […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 FACILITY RIBBON-CUTTING FRIDAY AFTERNOON ORONO — A ribbon-cutting event at the University of Maine’s renovated Cutler Health Center is scheduled for Friday afternoon, Jan. 30. Officials will celebrate a new public-private partnership between UMaine and Eastern Maine Medical Center, which is now providing medical services to UMaine students through […]
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Contact: Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3571; Keri Lindberg, (207) 832-0343 The University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant is working to keep Maine’s coastal beaches safe and clean, and recently received funding to continue their work. Since 2002, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has provided Maine with money to implement a beach monitoring, assessment […]
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Contact: Gabriella D’Italia, 234-2542 ORONO–Gabriella D’Italia, a student in UMaine’s Intermedia master of fine arts program, was selected for a national biennial exhibition of MFA students. Imaging Desire: Aegis First Biennial Graduate Student Exhibition will be held at the Hite Art Institute at the University of Louisville, Ky. The exhibit will run from February 12 […]
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Contact: Elizabeth Sutherland, Sutherland Weston Marketing Communications, (207) 945-9999 ORONO — The Maine Center for the Arts at the University of Maine will host a brief news conference and tours of the recently completed renovation on Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 10 a.m. in anticipation of the redesigned enter’s opening performance on Sunday, February 1, […]
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Contact: Steven Colburn, 581-1982; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — University of Maine Business School accounting students under the supervision of accounting professor Steven Colburn are offering free income tax filing assistance to the public on Monday afternoons, beginning Feb. 2. The long-standing UMaine Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA) is designed for low- to moderate-income […]
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Contact: Doug Allen, 581-3860 ORONO — The Spring 2009 Socialist and Marxist Studies Luncheon Series (Controversy Series) at UMaine begins Feb. 5 with a lecture about the implications of the home heating oil crisis in Maine and continues into April with thought-provoking talks reflecting on education, politics, terrorism, human rights and climate change. Sponsored by […]
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Contact: Nick DeHaas, (207) 831-2083; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO–The Beta Eta Chapter of Beta Theta Pi, the University of Maine’s oldest fraternity, will hold its 16th annual sleep-out Feb. 13 at the fraternity house at 12 Munson Road on the Orono campus. The event raises money and awareness for the mission of Rape Response Services […]
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Contact: Karen Cole, 581-4704; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine School of Performing Arts associate professor of theater Sandra Hardy knows she will raise eyebrows when she bandies the word “freak” around in explaining the latest student theatrical production opening in February in Hauck Auditorium. “Side Show,” the true story of conjoined twins Daisy and […]
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