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: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Me. — Chief Noel March, director of public safety at the University of Maine, has been chosen as one of 30 law enforcement executives from across the country to participate in the National Law Enforcement Leadership Institute on Violence Against women hosted by the International Association of Chiefs […]