Contact: Danny Williams, 947-4801; Liz Downing, 581-1558 ORONO — The University of Maine Patrons of the Arts board members have selected Elizabeth Liz Downing, senior associate director of New Student Programs and a member of the university’s music faculty, as the 2011 Vincent A. Hartgen Award recipient.
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The UMaine Department of Art is postponing two events scheduled for today. This evening’s opening reception for the Annual Juried Student Exhibition at the Lord Hall Gallery is postponed until Friday, April 8 from 5:30-7 p.m. due to the snowstorm. The department’s ArtWorks after-school children’s program this afternoon will not be held, but resumes Friday, […]
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Contact: Susan Pinette, (207) 581-3791; Yvon Labbé, (207) 581-3790; Jacob Albert, (207) 581-3795 ORONO — Teachers, researchers, historians, genealogists and Franco-Americans, among others, have a new online bibliographical website to connect them to references and resources about everything Franco-American. Created through and collaboratively managed at the University of Maine Franco-American Centre, the new Franco American […]
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Contact: Department of Art, 581-3245 The UMaine Department of Art’s Annual Juried Student Exhibition 2011 will be April 1-29 at the Lord Hall Gallery. An opening reception and award ceremony are scheduled Friday, April 1 from 5:30-7 p.m. and are free and open to the public. The exhibit includes about 90 works by art students […]
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UMaine News advisory – March 31, 2011 Contact: Len Kaye, (207) 262-7922 Because of the severity of winter weather conditions expected Friday, April 1, the University of Maine Center on Aging and collaborating partners are postponing the Substance Abuse and Aging Colloquium scheduled April 1 at Point Lookout in Northport. “We are working to reschedule […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — U.S. Marine Col. Michael J. Colburn, a Vermont native who serves as director of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, will visit the University of Maine for a series of activities Saturday April 2-Tuesday April 5. The highlight of Colburn’s visit will be a Tuesday, April […]
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Contact Kris Burton, (207) 581-1488 or kris.burton@maine.edu ORONO, Maine — Golfers on the high seas can breathe a little easier — and so can the marine life around them — thanks to researchers at the University of Maine. In conjunction with The Lobster Institute, UMaine Biological and Chemical Engineering Professor David Neivandt and undergraduate student Alex Caddell of […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Former Maine education commissioner J. Duke Albanese will visit UMaine on Monday April 4, as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Albanese currently serves as senior policy adviser in Maine’s Great Schools Partnership. Albanese will spend the day at UMaine, […]
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Contact: Judith Round, 581-5104 The 10th annual Geddes W. Simpson Lecture, with a special program in honor of the tenth year of the series, is scheduled for Monday, April 4 in the McIntire Room of the Buchanan Alumni House. The program will begin at 2 p.m. with a lecture by Elizabeth S. Bast, granddaughter of […]
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Contact: Joe Carr, joe.carr@umit.maine.edu, 207-581-3571 Roberta Laverty, Roberta.laverty@umit.maine.edu, 207-581-2110 ORONO — The Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the University of Maine has scheduled a Friday April 1 event in recognition of a prestigious national award for innovation. University personnel and their business and industry partners will gather to celebrate the Pankow Award for Innovation, […]
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