The University of Maine National Poetry Foundation will present this year’s Frank and Helene Crohn Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize to Maine native and master’s candidate Jason Canniff, a non-traditional student who teaches college composition and is poetry editor for The Stolen Island Review, the graduate literary magazine at UMaine.
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Former Bangor Daily News executive editor Mark Woodward will moderate a discussion involving former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen and Retired U.S. Marine General James Jones, the first National Security Advisor in the Obama Administration, on Thursday Nov. 17 at the University of Maine. The moderated discussion on the Arab Spring, a series of […]
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A fully functional table saw, a $45 flashlight, a bag of canned food, baby strollers, car seats, plastic toys, bowling balls and returnable bottles and cans are some of the things residents of Maine communities have thrown in the trash this past summer and fall.
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Retired U.S. Marine Gen. James L. Jones, who served as the first National Security Advisor in the Obama administration, will visit the University of Maine on Thursday, Nov. 17 to deliver a William S. Cohen Lecture. The talk is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts.
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UMaine computing engineering students recently placed first and second in the Northeastern United States in an international programming competition, and in the top 100 of 1,500 teams from around the world.
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Anthony Halog, assistant UMaine professor in Industrial Ecology, LCA and Systems Sustainability, has been awarded a month-long Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) “bridge” research fellowship to establish research networks with Japanese researchers.
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Dean Jeffrey Hecker has announced the recipients of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Fellowships for 2011-12. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research and creative activity.
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John Mahon, the John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy in the Maine Business School, is scheduled for a Thursday presentation at the Centre for Corporate Public Affairs’ Heads of Function and Senior Practitioners dinner in Sydney, Australia. Mahon, a scholar and consultant with an international profile in the area of corporate […]
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The UMaine Parking Services Office reminds commuters that UMaine’s winter parking ban begins tonight and continues through May 1, 2012. During that time period all staff, commuter and visitor lots close at midnight and reopen at 6 a.m. (even if it is not snowing). Please remember that the Bridge Tennis Court Lot and the South […]
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Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — A Portland artist will install a glass sculpture in front of Aubert Hall at the University of Maine Saturday, Oct. 29, a “Percent for Art” project included as part of the Aubert renovations.
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