Contact: Lauren Wagner, 581-1796 ORONO — The UMaine Bodwell Center for Service & Volunteerism, Phi Gamma Delta and Crossroads Ministries have joined together again to collect holiday gifts for families in the greater Old Town-Orono-area facing hard times as the holidays approach. The Holiday Sharing Program and “A FIJI Christmas” effort is unique, confidential and […]
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Contact: Gretchen Gfeller, 581-1667 ORONO, Maine — Is your family name in the town report? Did it appear there in 1898? What did this mean? Do you still think of the annual reports prepared by towns in Maine as dull bureaucratic documents detailing arcane activities of municipal governments, of little interest to anyone except local […]
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Contact: Ethel Hill, 581-1834 The University of Maine’s Explorations Program for first-year students who are undecided about a major has received one of only three certificates of merit in the Academic Affairs category from the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). The association has more than 10,000 members in all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico and […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at 581-3571 Note: a photo is available upon request. ORONO — A group of 56 UMaine students, joined by Bananas the Bear, UMaine Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Robert Dana and Senior Associate Dean of Students Kenda Scheele, brightened an otherwise-dreary afternoon by staging a Friday “flash mob” […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — U.S. Marine 1st Lt. James Zimmerman, a 2008 UMaine graduate, was killed Tuesday while serving in Afghanistan. Twenty-five years old, he was commissioned as an officer in the Marine Corps after completing UMaine’s Navy ROTC program. “Lt. Zimmerman was a valued member of the UMaine community, held […]
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Contact: Carey Nason, 581-2515 The University of Maine Safe Campus Project will celebrate its 10th anniversary Tuesday, Nov. 16 from 2-3:30 p.m. at the Wells Conference Center, with hors d’oeuvres, entertainment and informal remarks. Safe Campus Project promotes education, intervention and abuse prevention to help reduce sexual assault, relationship abuse and stalking. It also provides […]
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Contact: Catherine Schmitt, (207) 581-1434 or catherine.schmitt@umit.maine.edu Paul Anderson, the director of the University of Maine-based Maine Sea Grant College Program, has been named a recipient of the national Sea Grant Association President’s Award. Anderson served as president of the Sea Grant Association from 2007 to 2008, during which time he worked with the National […]
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Ian Bricknell, director of UMaine’s Aquaculture Research Center, will speak at UMaine’s next Research Cafe presentation, Thursday Nov. 18 at 4 p.m. in Fogler Library’s University Club. Bricknell will discuss “Where do sea lice on salmon farms come from and can we control them?”
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The UMaine Museum of Art will host an Art@Noon free gallery talk on Wednesday Nov. 3 at 12 noon. Museum director George Kinghorn will give a talk highlighting the current exhibitions Pablo Picasso: The Passionate Print, Selections from the Museum Collection and String Too Short to Use: Recent Works by Todd Watts. The museum is […]
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Those who wish to vote on Tuesday should bring a photo ID, and proof of residency (not a P.O. Box), such as mail with an address, if not already registered. Orono Voting Ward 2 & Ward 1, Precinct 3 (All on-campus residents vote on campus) Multi-Purpose Room, Memorial Union 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. Ward […]
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