Contact: Baycka Voronietsky, 581-1257; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine professor and School of Performing Arts senior pianist Baycka Voronietsky has invited two acclaimed musicians to campus for a guest performance recital at Minsky Recital Hall Oct. 25, at 7:30 p.m. Performing to rave reviews across the United States, pianists Ludmilla Lifson and Eda Shlyam, […]
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Contact: Todd Gabe, (207) 581-3307; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — A University of Maine economist estimates that the racino in Calais proposed by the Passamaquoddy Tribe could generate between $11.9 million and $13 million in slot machine revenue. Todd Gabe, associate professor in the UMaine School of Economics and a fellow in the Center […]
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Contact: Department of Art, 581-3245 Image available upon request: “Unhinged: A Plague on both your Houses,” ceramic, by Constant Albertson, associate professor of art. ORONO — The Department of Art at the University of Maine is opening a new show, “WHAT’S UP,” an exhibition of work by faculty and staff, in the Lord Hall Gallery […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward will visit the University of Maine on Friday, Oct. 5. Former U.S. Senator and Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen will join Woodward for a 2 p.m. forum where they will discuss the 1970s Watergate scandal and its implications for American politics […]
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Contact: Hugh Curran, (207) 667-7170Bill Giordano, (508) 380-3449 BELFAST — The International EcoPeace Community ESTIA is offering its fourth annual conference, “Earth Education and Permaculture Design” on Friday, Oct. 5, from 12-5 p.m. at UMaine’s Hutchinson Center in Belfast. From a Wabanaki perspective, Earth education is an ancient concept that regards the Earth as the […]
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Contact: Nellie Cyr at (207) 581-2461 ORONO, Maine – The biggest public health threat in the state of Maine, obesity, is putting more and more of the state’s children at risk. Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and a variety of other serious health problems are on the rise in children, and public health organizations are focusing […]
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Contact: Michael Kinnison (207) 581-2575; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — The influences humans have on the habitats of other species have long been recognized, raising concerns about loss of species. However, another widespread outcome of such disturbance has come to light. After examining over 3000 estimates of rates of evolution in wild animal […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — George Mitchell, the former U.S. Senate Majority Leader for whom UMaine’s Sen. George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research is named, will be a keynote speaker at a Thursday, Sept. 27 UMaine event. Mitchell, who represented Maine in the Senate for 15 years beginning in […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine will conduct October testing and drills related to its new comprehensive emergency testing system. Some of these events will include sounding of the university’s new alarm system, audible in parts of Orono and Old Town. UMaine’s new system includes both a siren and […]
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Contact: Amy Witt, 207-780-4205 BANGOR, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a tree tour of the Eastern Maine Native Plant Arboretum in Bangor and the University of Maine campus in Orono on Friday, Oct. 5. The tour is scheduled for 10 a.m.-1 p.m., with a rain date set for Friday, Oct. 12. […]
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