Contact: Liz Deploy, 581-1469; Alan Parks, 581-1236 ORONO – The UMaine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies will hold its annual Interdisciplinary Disability Studies Celebration of Achievement from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union, to recognize the students who have completed the concentration in interdisciplinary disability studies. […]
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Contact: Chet Rock, 581-2218; Ron Brown, 581-2674; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – After 55 years in the cupola atop Fogler Library, the century-old bronze bell from Wingate Hall and the subject of a six-year search, has been removed and will be lowered by crane to the ground on Maine Day, May 3. Facilities Management hired […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The man who invented the wire lobster trap and a nutrition educator who continues to teach and inspire well into her 80s will receive honorary University of Maine doctorates at UMaine’s May 13 commencement ceremony. James Knott, Sr., of Northbridge, Mass., will receive a Doctor of Science […]
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Contact: Donna R. Coffin, Extension Educator, Phone (207) 564-3301 CHARLESTON — University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Penobscot and Piscataquis County officeswill co-sponsor an apple pruning demonstration on Saturday, April 29 from 10 a.m.-noon. The demonstration will be held at Olmsted Orchard on Route 15 in Charleston. According to Renae Moran, Extension Tree Fruit Specialist, a […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine will mark its ongoing efforts to create and sustain a healthy work environment with a May 4 celebration at the Maine Marketplace dining facility in Memorial Union. The Wellness Councils of America (WELCOA) designated UMaine as a Silver Well Workplace in late February. […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — A professional development workshop to help educators at all levels explore the connection of life and work takes place Friday, May 19 in Waldoboro. Led by Richard Ackerman, University of Maine associate professor of Educational Leadership, the daylong retreat helps educators, kindergarten through college, focus on […]
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Contact: Capt. James C. Moreno, enrollment officer, University of Maine Army ROTCRoom 112, Armory, 581-1125 ORONO – The Black Bear Battalion of the University of Maine Army ROTC will hold its cadet commissioning ceremony Saturday, May 13, to commission nine cadets into the United States Army as second lieutenants. The ceremony will talk place in […]
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Contact: Robert Strong, 581-1986; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Members of the Maine Business School investment club SPIFFY drew compliments recently as one of 12 student groups invited to make formal presentations at a national two-day investment symposium in Dayton, Ohio, attended by 1,500 students from 191 universities from 21 countries. A team of eight […]
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Contact: Sarah Bigney, Progressive Student Alliance at 356-7322 ORONO — Gov. John Baldacci will be at the University of Maine at 1 p.m. on Wednesday May 3 to participate in a rally followed by a forum and panel discussion aimed at raising awareness of healthcare issues in Maine. More than 100,000 Maine residents are without […]
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Contact: Laura Kenefic (207) 581-2794; David Munson (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – UMaine Faculty Associate Laura Kenefic of the Department of Forest Ecosystem Science was recently presented with the 2006 Mollie H. Beattie Young Forester Leadership Award by the New England Society of American Foresters. This award is presented to a member of NESAF who […]
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