UMaine News

Contact: Angela Fiandaca at 581-1397 ORONO- The University of Maine’s Peer Education Program, as part of the University Counseling Center, will sponsor a large HIV/AIDS testing awareness event Wednesday Oct. 12 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the University Mall. Approximately 400 wooden stakes with varying signs attached to them will be placed in […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Note: a photo of Dan Rather is available upon request. ORONO, Me. — Dan Rather, the CBS News correspondent who served as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News for nearly a quarter century, will visit the University of Maine on Tuesday, Nov. 1 to deliver a […]

Contact: Dee Potter, Extension educator, (207) 834-3905 or (800) 287-1421 University of Maine Cooperative Extension 22 Hall St., Suite 101, Fort Kent, ME 04743-7131 PRESQUE ISLE, Me.

Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — If daily food preparation is eating up time outside the workplace, the Page Farm and Home Museum has a lunchtime discussion Oct. 21 that might help. The brown bag lunch session, which is free, open to the public and begins at noon, will feature Susan Henner […]

Contact: Raphael DiLuzio, 299-0730, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The collective BridA, a Slovenian team of new media artists, will spend two weeks on the UMaine campus, Oct. 13-31, creating a new work as they conduct workshops and public lectures, and creating art from campus resources in science, art and technology, as well as the […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt (207) 581-2761 Orono, Maine — A new research-based curriculum is targeted to help middle schools change the subtle — but hurtful — ways girls fight and bully one another. The goal of “From Adversaries to Allies: A Curriculum for Change,” designed by researchers and students at the University of Maine and Colby […]

Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The Oct. 12 lunch lecture at the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum will feature a video and discussion of the social and economic history of Old Town as told through the memories and experiences of local residents. “In Their Own Words: Personal Reflections on the […]

Contact: Patty Henner, 591-4100, Howard Segal, 581-1920 ORONO – How Henry Ford created a new model of small-scale industrial production, designed in part to help part time farmers in rural Michigan, is the subject of a lecture by UMaine history professor and author Howard Segal at 7 p.m., Oct. 27 at the Page Farm and […]

Contact: Amos Orcutt, University of Maine Foundation, 207-581-5100 ORONO, Me. — The University of Maine Foundation will present the first President Abram W. Harris Award to the “Faculty Five”: George Jacobson, Stephen Norton, George Markowsky, Malcolm Hunter and David Smith at the Foundation’s Annual Meeting Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005 at Wells Commons. A $5,000 prize […]

Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli 207.561.3352 kj@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine Museum of Art presents two new exhibitions. Bangor, Maine – Two exhibitions open the fall season at the University of Maine Museum of Art. No Two Alike … focuses on quilts created between the 1960s through the 1990s and based on the “Square-in-a-Square” pattern. Created and […]