Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — As Breast Cancer Awareness Month approaches, a group of University of Maine students is at work raising funds to benefit support organizations by selling pink tulip bulbs. Members of the UMaine Women’s Symposium Committee are spreading the word about a statewide initiative, which benefits the Maine Cancer […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Department of Continuing and Distance Education (DCDE) through the UMaine Division of Lifelong Learning this weekend begins its second annual three-credit-hour class designed around the 2006 Camden International Film Festival, a class that analyzes the making and meaning of documentary films. The course will teach […]
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Contact: Corey Pickett, Tanglewood, cpickett@umext.maine.edu, (207) 789-5803 Lincolnville, ME – Tanglewood 4-H Camp and Learning Center, a statewide program of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, recently continued the momentum of Tanglewood’s 25th year anniversary programming with a new program designed to give the future forestry workers of Maine a head start on their education. […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A new athletic training education facility, dedicated to the memory of legendary University of Maine trainer Wes Jordan, will be dedicated on Friday, Sept. 15 at UMaine. The Wes Jordan Athletic Training Education Complex, located in Lengyel Gym, will be home to UMaine’s curriculum-based athletic training academic […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine campus lectures, art exhibits, concerts, theater performances, exciting recreational opportunities and presentations on topical UMaine student research are offered to the public and University of Maine community throughout September. Here is a partial list of events and activities. Additional details are available on the UMaine online calendar. Sept. […]
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Contact: Kim Sawtelle, 581-1092; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies once again is hosting the annual traveling art exhibit by artists with disabilities, titled “A Matter of Perception 2006: Exhibition by Artists with Disabilities.” An opening reception is scheduled Friday, Sept. 15, from 4-6 p.m. […]
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Contact: Nancy Ogle, (207) 941-8580; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 AUGUSTA — An 11th Century Persian parable about a fantastical journey through valleys and over mountains to find a mystical king with answers about spiritual enlightenment has been set to music for three unique performances, at UMaine and the universities of Maine at Augusta and Southern […]
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Contact: Owen Smith, 581-4389; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — W/O3 without borders re: build / re: work / re: place, the third in a series of annual exhibits by UMaine art and New Media students, currently at the Lord Hall art gallery on the Orono campus, is an example of where art is going these […]
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Contact: Liam Riordan, 581-1913; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — On Feb. 29, 1704, more than 200 French soldiers and Native American Indians from five tribes descended upon English colonists in Deerfield, Mass., killing 50 and capturing more than 100 men, women and children who would be taken to Canada for resettlement among Native and French […]
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Contact: Alan Stubbs, (207) 581-3210; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO – Artwork by UMaine psychology and art professor Alan Stubbs recently was selected as one of the 10 best illusions submitted at the international second annual Best Visual Illusion of the Year Contest, sponsored by the Neural Correlate Society and held during Vision Sciences Society […]
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