UMaine News

Eric Beenfeldt, a UMaine electrical and computer engineering faculty member who retired in May, died on Dec. 15 at the age of 66.  Beenfeldt, a former NASA engineer who also earned a UMaine master’s degree before joining the faculty, lived in Belfast.  A private family ceremony is planned for spring.  Donations in his memory may […]

A memorial service for UMaine first-year physics major David Brown, who died Wednesday, Dec. 15 in an automobile accident, will be held Saturday, Dec. 18, from 1-4 p.m. at the home of his grandparents at 515 Maple Ridge Road in Winslow. Brown, 18, was from Unity, Maine.

Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — More than $4,000 in cash donations, more than 675 toys, more than 400 children’s books, along with food, clothing and handmade fleece blankets were just some of the results of members of the UMaine campus community teaming up with surrounding communities to brighten the holidays for area families […]

Contact: Diane Khiel (dkhiel@adelphia.net) ORONO — The Greater Bangor Area NAACP and the University of Maine will present the 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast Celebration on Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 at UMaine’s Wells Conference Center. The event is scheduled for 8:30-10:30 a.m., with doors opening at 8 a.m. The UMaine student singing group Renaissance is […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Women in Leadership and Philanthropy (WLP) program has created UMaine’s first-ever Charitable Gift Catalog, a 23-page brochure that describes the ways in which alumni and other friends can support UMaine students through contributions. Featuring a series of photos, the brochure provides information about […]

The Collins Center for the Arts at UMaine is scheduled to present Verdi’s “Don Carlo,” a live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, on Sunday, Dec. 12 from 1-3 p.m. Director Nicholas Hytner calls Don Carlo the “quintessential Verdi opera,” with “on the one hand, an implacable expression of impending doom and, on the other hand, […]

The Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism is reminding members of the UMaine community that Friday, Dec. 10 is the deadline for donating holiday gifts to be distributed to those in need this year. Drop-off boxes are located in Memorial Union, the Student Recreation and Fitness Center, dining facilities and in Hannibal Hamlin Hall. Suggested […]

Renaissance choral ensemble performs its fall concert Friday, Dec. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall, with an opening performance by Bear Vocals. Admission $5, or $2 with a MaineCard.

Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, 581-1904; Theresa Secord, 314-3120 ORONO — Celebrated Maine Indian basketmaker Jeremy Frey, who Tuesday evening received a prestigious $50,000 arts grant during ceremonies at Lincoln Center in New York, plans to return as an exhibitor in the University of Maine Hudson Museum’s annual Maine Native Basket Sale and Demonstration Saturday, Dec. 11. […]

Three UMaine presenters highlighted the Thursday Dec. 2 legislative policy forum on preparing Maine’s workshop in Augusta.  More than 100 members of the new Maine Legislature attended the forum, sponsored by the Legislative Council.  UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center worked with the Maine Development Foundation and USM’s Muskie School of Public Service to plan […]