Contact: Anne Schmidt, (207) 478-0576, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine School of Performing Arts theater division is offering Broadway Nights, an uplifting comedic musical review, March 24-25, at 7:30 p.m. at Minsky Recital Hall on the Orono campus. The student production, being directed by Sandra Hardy, associate professor of theater, […]
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Contact: Emily Gammon, (207) 581-7179, (cell 651-9764), George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 Several area residents are in this production) ORONO — Luigi Pirandello’s play within a play, “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” is being brought to the University of Maine’s Hauck Auditorium April 6-9 and April 10 by the Maine Masque Theater. Performances for […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Trucks recently rolled into the University of Maine with 4,000 pounds of Maine potatoes, purchased at a steep discount from the surplus supply of the Maine Dept. of Corrections. Those spuds will find their way, on Wednesday March 23, onto the tables of UMaine students in a […]
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Contact: Steve Colburn, (207) 581-1982, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine accounting students will be available Thursdays through April 14 to provide free help with filing state and federal income tax returns. Sessions, scheduled from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Thursdays, began March 17 in Room 218 in the Donald P. Corbett Business Building. About […]
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Contact: Jennifer Moreau at 581-4585 or Joe Carr at 581-3571 ORONO– With the rapidly rising obesity rate and the health care costs associated with a sedentary lifestyle, UMaine Dining Services has joined forces with other campus departments in a joint effort to promote National Nutrition Month and the joys of an active healthy lifestyle. The […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt, (207) 581-2761 (Professors Gordon Donaldson and Richard Ackerman are available for comment on the preparation, work and challenges of K-12 educational administrators.) Many of the themes in the hard-hitting critique of the nation’s school administrator preparation institutions issued this week are age-old debates about what educational leadership is and should do, according […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt, (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Leadership teams from the 12 Sports Done Right pilot sites will gather March 22 at the University of Maine for a training session focusing on engaging communities in defining and promoting healthy interscholastic sports at their high schools and middle schools. The meeting runs from 9 a.m. […]
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Contact: Marie Hayes, (207) 581-2039, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Psychology researchers at the University of Maine and at three Maine hospitals, in Bangor, Waterville and Portland, are looking for shy children to participate in a research project they hope will improve treatment for children at risk for developing severe social anxiety as adults. […]
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Contact: Wally Mason, 561-3350 BANGOR — The University of Maine Museum of Art is pleased to announce a Spring Art Camp will be held during April Vacation, April 19 — April 21 (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) from 8:30 – 12:00, and will be offered to students in grade 2 — 4. The camp is a unique […]
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Contact: John Diamond 973-3224, Rita Sullivan 973-3245 BANGOR — Four candidates for the presidency of the University of Maine have been invited to Orono for a series of meetings with faculty, staff, students, and others. University System Chancellor Joseph W. Westphal announced the names Tuesday morning. A 12-member search committee, appointed by Board of Trustees […]
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