The University of Maine’s Homecoming 2016 will be celebrated with several events on campus Friday through Sunday, Oct. 14–16. A special highlight this year will be the dedication of the Professor Michael H. Lewis Painting Studio in the Wyeth Family Studio Art Center on campus. The dedication event begins at noon Saturday, Oct. 15 in […]
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Beginning in mid-October, 25 Mexican students will be on campus for a four-week English language program, offered by the Intensive English Institute. This is the third program IEI has hosted for students participating in Mexico’s Proyecta 100,000 initiative, which provides government-sponsored scholarships to study English and pursue short-term academic work in the United States. The […]
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Marcella Sorg, an anthropologist and research professor with the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, was mentioned in the Portland Press Herald article, “DEA will cut amount of opioids produced in U.S. by at least 25 percent.” The Drug Enforcement Administration recently announced it will significantly reduce the amount of prescription […]
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The University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor was mentioned in a Maine Edge article about ARTober, a monthlong celebration of arts and culture in the city. Fall exhibits at the museum were included in a list of some of the ARTober events. “Contemporary Currents: Nine New Brunswick Artists” will showcase a variety […]
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More than 650 students from 12 middle and elementary schools throughout northern and central Maine will convene at the University of Maine on Tuesday, Oct. 11 for the biennial Northern Maine Children’s Water Festival. The festival, which will be held from 9 a.m.–2 p.m. in the New Balance Field House, offers an opportunity for students […]
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Nine University of Maine art students will be thinking big Oct. 8 when they take their printmaking to Belfast for a Steamroller Print Party, organized by Waterfall Arts. The students in the intermediate and advanced print classes taught by art professor Susan Groce will join other artists and members of the community for the 10 […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported Stephen King will launch his newest book, “Hearts in Suspension,” at the University of Maine on Nov. 7. The 7 p.m. event in the Collins Center for the Arts will feature a reading by King and discussion of his student days at UMaine during the turbulent Vietnam War era. The […]
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R. Dean Astumian, a physics professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Quartz article, “The works that won this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry — in terms a high school student would understand.” The 2016 Nobel Prize in chemistry recently was awarded to Fraser Stoddart of Northwestern University, Ben Feringa of the […]
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WLBZ (Channel 2) and the Bangor Daily News reported Libertarian vice presidential candidate Bill Weld will visit Bangor for a town hall meeting on Saturday, Oct. 8. Weld, who was the Republican governor of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997, is scheduled to appear for the two-hour event at 6 p.m. at the Spectacular Events Center, […]
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Members of the University of Maine community are welcome to join a discussion about fantasy fiction at Fogler Library on Oct. 5. From 7–8 p.m. members of the Fogler Library Book Club will talk about their favorite fantasy worlds and share recommendations for books in the genre. Anyone interested in fantasy stories, such as “Harry […]
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