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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Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 Dennis Cox, UMaine music professor and director of the university’s choral music program, will receive an Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Nebraska. On Friday of this week that university will make a short biographical video, “Put Yourself on the Map,” one in a series designed to highlight the […]
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Contact: Joe Carr, joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — John Lynn, Distinguished Professor of Military History at Northwestern University, will present a Monday April 25 lecture at the University of Maine. The author of several books on European history and warfare, Lynn will speak at 3:45 p.m. in the Bodwell Lounge, Collins Center for the Arts. He served […]
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Amy Fried of the UMaine political science faculty spoke on Saturday with an AP radio reporter for a story about President Obama’s re-election bid.
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Jonathan Farley of the UMaine computer science faculty wrote a column, “Confessions of a minion of the military-industrial complex, or how I learned to stop worrying about where my academic research funding came from and love Raytheon,” in the April 1 edition of The Guardian. In the column, Farley uses his own experiences as the […]
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Contact: Danny Williams, 947-4801; Liz Downing, 581-1558 ORONO — The University of Maine Patrons of the Arts board members have selected Elizabeth Liz Downing, senior associate director of New Student Programs and a member of the university’s music faculty, as the 2011 Vincent A. Hartgen Award recipient.
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