Area families are invited to a free Fun Fall Farm Day Saturday, Oct. 30, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the university’s J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center off College Avenue. Planned activities at the 300-acre farm include farm tours, face painting, a costume contest, a raffle with Halloween and fall items, an auction, […]
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The next Peace & Reconciliation Studies Program Diversity Dialogue speaker is Sharon Barker, director of the UMaine Women’s Resource Center, who will share reflections of her life on Monday, Oct. 25, 12:15-1:15 p.m. in the Totman Lounge of the Memorial Union. Barker, who was born in Canada, raised in Aroostook County and came of age […]
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WABI television broadcast a Wednesday news story about Wednesday’s engineering career fair, organized by the UMaine Career Center. The story includes an interview with Career Center director Patty Counihan.
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The Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald and Lewiston Sun Journal have all published reports previewing the 2010-2011 UMaine Black Bear basketball seasons. The teams held their annual media days on Wednesday.
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Jim Chasse at (207) 866-4916 ORONO — The Orono School Committee Wednesday night approved an initial agreement that will set aside University of Maine housing space and create other university-based opportunities for international students attending Orono High School. Under the agreement, which takes the form of a memorandum of […]
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Contact: Len Kaye, (207) 262-7920; Jaye Martin, Legal Services for the Elderly, (207) 621-0087 ORONO — A recent study of legal needs of aging Mainers by the University of Maine Center on Aging has confirmed that the number of older people needing legal services will outweigh available resources in the future. Up to half of […]
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Contact: Michael Bilodeau, 949-4177; Andrew Plant, 764-3361 A $1.65 million award from the Maine Technology Asset Fund will enable the University of Maine Biomass Engineered Fuel Project to prototype the Northeast’s first grass pellet production facility in Aroostook County. “The grant will allow the University of Maine to better support the emerging solid biofuels industry […]
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Elinor Ostrom, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, will give the keynote address, “Unconventional Wisdom: Sustaining Our Natural Resources in a Rapidly Changing World,” at the 2010 Sen. George J. Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability Thursday, Oct. 21 from 1-2:30 p.m. at Wells Conference Center. Sen. Mitchell will offer remarks. A reception […]
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Deb Neuman, director of UMaine’s Target Technology Incubator, appeared Wednesday morning on WKSQ radio to discuss the Nov. 10 conference, “Invention to Venture: Maine 2010.” UMaine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance will sponsor the event, along with the Target Technology Incubator.
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The University of Maine System office this week launched a new online Employee Benefits Center on its website, offering a PowerPoint tutorial concisely explaining what benefits employees are entitled to, along with explanations, definitions, answers to frequently asked questions, and a telephone number to call during business hours with questions about benefits enrollment. Open enrollment […]
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