Nominations are being accepted for the annual Steve Gould Award. The award was created in 1981 in memory of Steve Gould to honor his honesty and compassion for others. The President of the University of Maine gives the award to people or organizations that have demonstrated superior qualities of unselfishness and compassion in the course […]
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Assistant Professor Ann Ross and 15 students will participate in the 2013 American College Dance Festival Association New England Conference at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, March 14–16. Students will participate in master classes, watch informal and adjudicated concerts, listen to lectures by guest artists and have an opportunity to network. They also will […]
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Two public sessions are scheduled March 27 to provide preliminary information about the university’s FY14 budget. President Paul Ferguson, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Susan Hunter and Assistant Vice President of Financial and Budget Services Claire Strickland will join Senior Vice President for Administration and Finance Janet Waldron as she presents the […]
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UMaine Professor of English Naomi Jacobs and University of Delaware Professor of Classics Annette Giesecke have co-edited a new volume of 17 utopian studies essays: “Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia and the Garden”. The researchers focus on ancient and modern utopian approaches to the garden, “a human creation driven by the desire to find an ideal […]
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University Singers embark on 35th annual spring tour.
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Maine working waterfront expertise featured at national symposium.
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A short film produced and directed by University of Maine Intermedia MFA graduate student Neil Shelley with student actors and crew has been accepted into the third annual Lewiston Auburn Film Festival, April 4–7. Shelley, who is from Gray, Maine, created the 28-minute film “Telling Hannah” in a Year in Film class with assistance from […]
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Dozens of University of Maine students will spend spring break March 4–15 in far-away places doing volunteer work in schools, hospitals, animal shelters, orphanages, nature preserves, farms and building housing and a Honduran village’s first sewage system. Here is a partial list of places and projects. Honduras — Five student members of the UMaine chapter […]
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Andrei Alyokhin, associate professor and graduate coordinator, University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology, will be sworn as the member of the Governor’s Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Council March 26 in the Deering Building, Maine Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources in Augusta. The IPM Council was established by the Maine Legislature to […]
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University of Maine women’s basketball player Milica Mitrovic sustained a broken hand and a bus driver was injured after the bus transporting the team to a game in Boston went off Interstate 95 near Georgetown, Mass., at approximately 8:30 last night. Head coach Richard Barron also was treated for minor facial lacerations. All the players […]
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