Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Maine Office of Innovation director Catherine Renault will visit the University of Maine on Thursday Oct. 28 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Renault will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members. The […]
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Hailed by the New York Times as “something extraordinary” and by the Boston Globe for their “fiercely committed performances,” the Parker String Quartet will return to UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts Sunday, Oct. 24 at 3 p.m. for the second time after a popular performance last season. Ticket information is available at the CCA […]
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Join Phillip Silver of the UMaine Music Department faculty for his annual Thwarted Voices concert, a performance of music by Holocaust-era composers silenced by Nazis, on Saturday, Oct. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Minsky Recital Hall. Students free, others $7. The Collins Center for the Arts box office (581-1755) has additional information.
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Acclaimed pianist Paul Orgel will present an evening of Beethoven sonatas Saturday, Oct. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall. An international performer and classical recording artist on the music faculty at the University of Vermont, Orgel will conduct a master class for music students during the day. Tickets for […]
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The Fall 2010 Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies Program lunchtime lecture series schedule is available online in a PDF. The series continues Wednesday, Oct. 20, from 12:15-1:30 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union with a talk, “Emily Dickenson and the Civil War,” by Ben Friedlander, associate professor of English. The […]
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Contact: Patty Counihan, 581-1359 Recruiters and representatives from nearly 60 companies with jobs for engineering students, interns and recent graduates will converge at the Student Fitness and Recreation Center Oct. 20 for UMaine’s 2010 Engineering Job Fair. The annual event is an opportunity for UMaine engineering students to meet prospective employers and learn about large […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Prof. Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center, will provide the Friday morning keynote address at the Maine Career and Technical Education Conference. Dagher’s talk is scheduled for 8:15 a.m. at the Lewiston Regional Technical Center on East Avenue. Dagher, […]
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UMaine critical theorist Carla Billitteri will be a featured speaker at an October 14-16 University of Buffalo symposium honoring poet Charles Olson. Billitteri is a member of the editorial collective which directs the UMaine-based National Poetry Foundation and is the author of “Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and […]
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Contact Beth Bisson (beth.bisson@maine.edu) ORONO — Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine has created a new Maine Sea Grant Undergraduate Scholarship in Marine Sciences Beginning in the spring semester of the 2010-2011 academic year, Maine Sea Grant will award one scholarship in the amount of $1,000 to one third-year undergraduate student […]
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Contact: Alan Davenport, 581-1341 The sun sets early and scenery turns sinister and dangerous, plummeting into the deep ocean to investigate the “Origins of Life” as Jordan Planetarium visitors will discover the first two Fridays this month. The deepest recesses of the universe are dark, too, but ways to view it are explored in “Touching […]
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