The 27th Expanding Your Horizons conference at the University of Maine on March 13 for middle school girls has been canceled because of weather. Schools are encouraged to contact Sharon Barker, director of the UMaine Women’s Resource Center to arrange individual campus visits. Contact information: sbarker@maine.edu; 207.581.1501.
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James Warhola, a political science professor and chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Maine, was a guest on an episode of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on the ongoing situation in Ukraine.
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The Weekly spoke with Alan Davenport, director of Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium at the University of Maine, about the university’s new Emera Astronomy Center that is slated to open this fall. The $5.2 million astronomy center will be the new home of the Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium and Observatory. The center will feature a planetarium […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a free apple tree pruning and grafting field day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 19, at Avalon Acres Orchard & Farm, 234 Dexter Road, in Saint Albans. Avalon Acres owner Mark Sheriff, an alumnus of the UMaine Extension Master Gardener Volunteers program, will host. […]
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The Maine Journal, a student-run, online publication at the University of Maine, will sponsor TEDxUMaine on April 5. The local TED-like event aims to share the experiences of exceptional UMaine students through their own voices. The event will include six to eight student speakers as well as selected TED videos from past TED talks and […]
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Due to the expected winter storm, the University of Maine’s third annual Summer Camp Fair for Kids originally scheduled for March 12 has been postponed. The fair will now take place from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 19 in the New Balance Student Recreation Center on campus. Parents and children are encouraged to attend […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at the University of Maine, for the article “Scientist: Odd-looking Maine lobsters are not mutants, and still safe to eat.” Bayer spoke about lobsters found in the Gulf of Maine with unusual colors, extra sets of claws or pockmarked shells, and […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the University of Maine announcement that Daniel Williams has been appointed to serve a two-year term as interim executive director of the Collins Center for the Arts. UMaine President Paul Ferguson said, “Danny has demonstrated remarkable leadership in diverse opportunities at UMaine and consistently brings excellent results. At this […]
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The Maine Edge previewed a March 24 lecture by Bernard Wasserstein, the Harriet and Ulrich Meyer Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish European History at the University of Chicago. Wasserstein will give a free public talk, “The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews in World War II,” in Barrows […]
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The Maine Edge reported registration is open for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s annual Maine Grain Conference. The conference will be held Saturday, March 15 at the Spectacular Event Center in Bangor and is designed for farmers, crop advisers and others involved in the agricultural community.
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