Contact: Joe Carr, 581-3571; Kathryn Jovanelli, 561-3350 The University of Maine Museum of Art will hold a news conference to announce an important gift to the community in 2010 from Machias Savings Bank. The announcement will take place at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30. The museum is located at 40 Harlow St. in Bangor.
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Professor Emeritus David C. Smith, a Maine native and University of Maine graduate who served on the UMaine history faculty for nearly 25 years before his 1994 retirement, has died at the age of 80. Smith, who was born in Lewiston to a mother whose Maine roots […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Two renowned archaeobiology experts from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History will visit the University of Maine next week, for lectures presented by UMaine’s Dept. of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute. Bruce Smith, Smithsonian curator of North American archaeology, will discuss “Everything You Need to […]
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Contact: Karel Lidral, 581-1256 ORONO — The University of Maine Chamber Jazz Ensemble will present its formal concert in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall, on Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. The organization includes several soloists or small ensembles with piano accompaniment. This semester’s group consists of 11 musicians, representing a variety of […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine School of Arts will offer a reader’s theatre presentation of Peter Parnell’s “Trumpery: the Evolution of Charles Darwin’s Theory,” on Wednesday Oct. 28 at 7: 30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall. Admission is free. Charles Isherwood described the play in a December 2007 […]
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Contact: Kathryn Allan, (207) 581-1954 ORONO — In the second annual Maine Heritage Lecture, UMaine professor emeritus of political science Kenneth Palmer will speak on “Maine’s Paradoxical Politics,” Thursday, Nov. 5. The lecture, at 4:30 p.m. in the university’s Wells Conference Center, is free and open to the public. Palmer is a political scientist who […]
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(Editors’ note: The name gkisedtanamoogk, fourth paragraph, begins with a lower case “g.”) Contact: Ellen Woodhead, 581-1167 BELFAST — The International EcoPeace Community ESTIA, affiliated with Peace & Reconciliation Studies at the University of Maine, will hold its 6th annual conference at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast Friday, Oct. 23, 12 noon-6 p.m., on “Sacred […]
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Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, 581-1904 ORONO — The Climate Change Institute and Hudson Museum at the University of Maine are hosting two fall lectures that explore the impact of climate change on civilizations and the impact of humans on climate change — one of the foremost issues of our times. On Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 7 […]
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Contacts: Merrill F. Elias, (207) 244-9674; Greg Dore, (207) 581- 2022 ORONO — University of Maine researchers studying cardiovascular risk factors that influence cognitive performance have discovered that diabetics who carry a particular genotype — one or more of the ApoE-e4 alleles — are at greater risk for diminished cognitive capacity than individuals without the […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Celebration of Darwin class and lecture series continues on Monday Sept. 28 and Wednesday, Sept. 30. UMaine Prof. Irv Kornfield will give a Monday talk, “Sexual Selection,” and Prof. Keith Hutchison will speak on Wednesday about “The Laws of Variation and the Geonome.” […]
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