Contact: Jessica Bloch 207-581-3777 UMaine philosophy Professor Douglas Allen was one of about 100 people who protested in Bangor on Sunday the U.S. military budget, the Bangor Daily News reported. Allen told the crowd if the money spent fighting overseas could be brought back to the U.S., it would eliminate the debt of all 50 […]
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Contact: Karen Boucias, (207) 581-3433 The UMaine Office of International Programs and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences are bringing about 40 international high school students from John Bapst, Orono High School and Lee Academy to campus for tours of some of the university’s facilities and programs Thursday, April 14.
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Contact: Nancy Hall, (207) 581-2404 University of Maine undergraduate students will present more than 50 research projects all day on Wednesday, April 13 at the Wells Conference Center for the second annual Undergraduate Research & Academic Showcase. The research represents disciplines from across campus.
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Contact Joe Carr at 207-581-3571 A University of Phoenix student from North Carolina wrote a Maine Sunday Telegram column detailing his efforts to fulfill a class assignment by finding the location of Maine’s Apollo 11 moon rock, presented to Gov. Curtis in the early 1970s. Prof. Neil Comins from the UMaine Dept. of Physics and […]
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Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777 UMaine’s Oratorio Society and University of Maine Singers were featured in a Friday Bangor Daily News story about Sunday’s Bangor Symphony Orchestra 3 p.m. concert at UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts. The ensembles, led by UMaine faculty members Dennis Cox and Ludlow Hallman, will perform several pieces with the symphony.
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Contact: Jason Hoyt, (207) 581-4121 The first annual “Black Bears of Tomorrow” program, sponsored by Weight Watchers of Maine in con junction with Black Bear Sports Properties, is being held Friday, April 8, with as many as 200 fifth-graders from around Maine visiting UMaine to tour the campus with a focus on academics, athletics and […]
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Contact: Department of Art, 581-3245 UMaine art students are displaying through April 29 at the Lord Hall Gallery some 90 works of art done throughout the year and deemed by a panel of judges to be the most interesting or noteworthy that students submitted for consideration. An opening reception, postponed from April 1 because of […]
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Contact: Alexander Grab, (207) 581-1928 A scholar of international reputation and specialist on the modern history of the Middle East is the Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Memorial Lecture Series speaker scheduled April 14 at the University of Maine. Ian Lustick, the Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, will […]
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Contact: Jessica Bloch at 207-581-3777 Several upcoming lectures and events at UMaine were noted in a series of briefs in the Bangor Daily News, including the 2011 Life Cycle Assessment Event, a daylong event on April 15 during which the public can meet with UMaine students and faculty about sustainability and the environment. Also noted […]
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Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 The government of Cyprus has selected UMaine sociology professor, researcher and author Kyriacos Markides to represent it at a four-day authors’ festival from April 14-17, sponsored by Hungary, the current head nation of the European Union. Each member nation of the EU was asked to nominate and send to the […]
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