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Silver, Colleagues to Record Music of Bernhard Sekles

University of Maine music professor and pianist Phillip Silver will be joined May 29-31 by fellow music faculty member and cellist Noreen Silver and acclaimed violinist and music professor Solomia Soroka of Goshen College in Indiana for a CD recording of music from the German-Jewish composer Bernhard Sekles. Sekles was an influential pedagogue who founded […]

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UMaine Commits $17,000 in Student Scholarships for MLTI Attendees

The University of Maine has committed $1,000 in scholarships for 17 students who win a drawing during the 9th Annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) Student Conference Thursday at UMaine. Ten scholarships are bring offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, five from the School of Computing and Information Science, and two from […]

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School of Nursing Hosting State Summit on Nurse Education

The University of Maine School of Nursing is hosting Wednesday at Wells Conference Center a conference focusing on redefining and redesigning nursing education in view of changes in the practice over the last half century. As many as 40 directors and chairs, along with curriculum chairs and coordinators of the 13 Maine schools of nursing, […]

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Nichols Named Dean of UMaine’s College of Education and Human Development

William Dee Nichols has been named Dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine, effective July 1. Nichols, who is nationally recognized for his work in the field of literacy, will replace Anne Pooler, who is retiring after 36 years at UMaine. Nichols was recommended following a national search. […]

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UMaine’s Hart a Panelist at National Sustainability Symposium

David Hart, director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center at the University of Maine and research leader for the UMaine-based Sustainability Solutions Initiative (SSI), was in Washington, D.C. this week serving as a panelist at the prestigious National Academies Symposium “Science, Innovation, and Partnerships for Sustainability Solutions.”  Hart, a professor of in the School […]

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UMaine Business Challenge Winners Announced

Two brothers from Orrington, Maine, have won top prize in the first annual UMaine Business Challenge for UMaine student entrepreneurs. UMaine marketing student Luke Thomas and Jake Thomas, an outdoor recreation and business student at the University of Maine at Farmington, won $5,000 cash and start-up business support to promote and market their company, AerialFly, […]

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