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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Contact: George Markowsky, 581-3940 In spite of a spate of nonsensical movies and articles about how the world is going to end in 2012, George Markowsky, professor and chair, Department of Computer Science, Homeland Security Lab at UMaine, will discuss a potentially unpleasant event on the horizon for 2012. He’ll discuss it Thursday, Oct. 7 […]
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A review by English Department faculty member Steve Evans, coordinator of the New Writing Series at UMaine, of three works of contemporary poetry appears in the Oct. 18 online edition of The Nation. The piece is part of the publication’s “Shelf Life” series, a monthly column by various writers that discuss three books on a […]
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Contact: Laurie Hicks, 581-3247 ORONO — A new exhibit by selected members of the University of Maine’s Art Department faculty opens Oct. 8 at the Lord Hall Galleries, with an opening reception planned Friday, Oct. 15 from 5:30-7 p.m. Titled “FACULTY / SELECTED / 2010,” the exhibit features new work by Constant Albertson, Susan Camp, […]
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