Contact: Lisa Acquaviva at (207) 581-7766 ORONO, Me. — The University of Maine’s Delta Nu chapter of Alpha Phi (pronounced “fee”) will host its 3rd annual Move Your Phi’t event on Sunday, April 17. Proceeds will benefit charitable projects of the Alpha Phi Foundation, Inc. Move Your Phi’t is a 5krun/walk for cardiac care, beginning […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — When University of Maine Business Administration and Accounting major Nathan Holmes began his senior year last fall, he never dreamed he would do his internship in a public school system. Thanks to an innovative collaboration between UMaine and eight area school systems, more undergraduate and graduate students […]
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Contact: Samantha Foster, Maine Animal Club, (207) 581-7818 ORONO, Maine — The Maine Animal Club is sponsoring its 23rd annual Orono Royal on April 30 at the University of Maine’s J. F. Witter Teaching and Research Center off College Avenue. The public is welcome to attend the livestock show that starts at 9 a.m. and […]
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Contact: Page Farm & Home Museum, 581-4100, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Tatting, knitting and sewing are the focus of discussion and a demonstration at a brown bag lunch April 27 at the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum. Hampden resident Viola Miller is the featured speaker. She has taught tatting, knitting and sewing for […]
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Contact: Karen Cole, (207) 581-4704, George Manlove (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Concert Band and Symphonic Band will perform Sunday, April 17 in Hutchins Concert Hall in the Maine Center for the Arts. The roughly 65-member concert band will open the program at 7:30 p.m. The symphonic band, with 61 musicians, will perform second, […]
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Contact: Lisa K. Neuman, (207) 581-4489, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The intriguing story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian who was a living exhibit in a California museum for several years before he died in 1916, is the subject of a lecture Monday, April 18 in the Bodwell Lounge at the Maine Center […]
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Contact: Nancy Ogle, (207) 581-1255, Leisa Preble, (207) 581-1016, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Music and science will meld April 14, as a California musician, composer and physicist is scheduled to deliver an inspiring combination performance-lecture at Minsky Recital Hall in the Class of 1944 Hall. Brian Holmes, professor of physics at San Jose […]
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Contact: Nancy Strayer, Canadian-American Center, (207) 581-4220, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO – The University of Maine’s Canadian-American Center has received a grant of $150,000 over three years to enhance support for several cartography projects and share geographic, cultural and environmental data with public schools, the tourism industry and the university. The grant, part of […]
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Contact: Vivianne Holmes, 207-353-5557 ORONO, Maine — Most women probably didn’t grow up thinking they were going to manage a forest, says Vivianne Holmes, University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator in Lisbon Falls. However, women who have purchased land with a woodlot or inherited a wooded parcel now find themselves having to think about growing […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Reading Recovery is meeting its promise to bring the lowest performing first grade readers up to the average class achievement level — and perhaps beyond — according to University of Maine research. The study provides scientific evidence that Maine students completing the program not only reach or […]
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