Contact: Jason Hoyt, (207) 581-4121 The first annual “Black Bears of Tomorrow” program, sponsored by Weight Watchers of Maine in con junction with Black Bear Sports Properties, is being held Friday, April 8, with as many as 200 fifth-graders from around Maine visiting UMaine to tour the campus with a focus on academics, athletics and […]
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Contact: Ivan J. Fernandez, (207) 581-2932 or ivanjf@maine.edu The University of Maine’s ongoing research at the Bear Brook Watershed has received another funding boost from the National Science Foundation to study nitrogen cycling in the watershed. UMaine has received $370,646 for the first year of funding from a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant to […]
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Contact: Department of Art, 581-3245 UMaine art students are displaying through April 29 at the Lord Hall Gallery some 90 works of art done throughout the year and deemed by a panel of judges to be the most interesting or noteworthy that students submitted for consideration. An opening reception, postponed from April 1 because of […]
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Contact: Alexander Grab, (207) 581-1928 A scholar of international reputation and specialist on the modern history of the Middle East is the Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Memorial Lecture Series speaker scheduled April 14 at the University of Maine. Ian Lustick, the Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, will […]
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Contact: Jessica Bloch at 207-581-3777 Several upcoming lectures and events at UMaine were noted in a series of briefs in the Bangor Daily News, including the 2011 Life Cycle Assessment Event, a daylong event on April 15 during which the public can meet with UMaine students and faculty about sustainability and the environment. Also noted […]
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Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 The government of Cyprus has selected UMaine sociology professor, researcher and author Kyriacos Markides to represent it at a four-day authors’ festival from April 14-17, sponsored by Hungary, the current head nation of the European Union. Each member nation of the EU was asked to nominate and send to the […]
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Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 Dennis Cox, UMaine music professor and director of the university’s choral music program, will receive an Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Nebraska. On Friday of this week that university will make a short biographical video, “Put Yourself on the Map,” one in a series designed to highlight the […]
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Contact: Len Kaye, (207) 262-7922 The University of Maine Center on Aging and collaborating partners have rescheduled the Substance Abuse and Aging Colloquium, postponed from April 1 because of heavy snow, to Monday, May 2 at Point Lookout Resort and Conference Center in Northport. An earlier UMaine news release listed conference details.
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Contact: Joe Carr, joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — John Lynn, Distinguished Professor of Military History at Northwestern University, will present a Monday April 25 lecture at the University of Maine. The author of several books on European history and warfare, Lynn will speak at 3:45 p.m. in the Bodwell Lounge, Collins Center for the Arts. He served […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 or joe.carr@umit.maine.edu ORONO — Renowned microbiologist Stanley Falkow, Stanford University School of Medicine’s Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor of Cancer Research, will visit the University of Maine for a series of activities the week of April 18, 2011. The highlight will be a Thursday April 21 public […]
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