University of Maine Dining is introducing a weekly faculty and staff appreciation discount on food and beverages at the Bear’s Den pub and café in the Memorial Union, according to Jodi Munster, assistant dining service manager. On Wednesdays between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., a featured menu item will be offered at a 20 percent […]
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The California-based Foresight Institute, a think tank and public interest organization focused on transformative future technologies, has awarded University of Maine professor of physics Raymond Dean Astumian the 2011 Feynman Prize for Theory. Astumian is being honored for his contributions to the understanding of Brownian motion and its role in powering molecular motors and other […]
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The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies (CCIDS) is celebrating its 20th Anniversary on Thursday, Nov. 1 at Buchanan Alumni House. The celebration begins at 2:30 p.m. and is open to the public. Stephen T. Murphy, Ph.D., author of “Voices of Pineland: Eugenics, Social Reform, and the Legacy of ‘Feeblemindedness’ in […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts is presenting an evening of performance featuring the works of celebrated and lesser-known women composers at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 24 in Minsky Recital Hall in Class of 1944 Hall. Works by Hildegard of Bingen, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, UMaine professor of music Beth Wiemann, Ellinor Peterson, Madeleine […]
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Clean water will be the theme of the third annual ChemFest community outreach program Thursday, Oct. 25 at Aubert Hall at the University of Maine. As many as 100 area high school students and their teachers are expected to attend from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. for an evening of creative chemistry demonstrations designed to […]
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The University of Maine’s 2012 Annual Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 25 will feature Frances Fox Piven, author and distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, who will present “How Protest Movements Change American History” at 7:30 p.m. […]
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Celebrating UMaine’s legacy and land grant anniversary.
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The University of Maine’s Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies Program has announced the four recipients of the 2012 Maryann Hartman Awards, an annual recognition of women whose work inspires others and raises awareness of contemporary women’s accomplishments. The awards ceremony is scheduled from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30 at UMaine’s […]
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University of Maine professor Owen Smith, director of the Intermedia MFA Program, will have his video presentation “8 Transitions: video event works” presented as part of a celebration of the 100th birthday of composer John Cage. The event will be held on Oct. 20 at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Seattle. The Late […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts theatre department opens its 2012–13 season with the award-winning play “How I Learned to Drive,” written by Paula Vogel. The play opens at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 19 in the Cyrus Pavilion Theatre. Additional performances are at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 20, 26, 27; at 2 […]
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