Learn how modern humans acquired a unique style of thinking and came to dominate the planet while other human species went extinct. Ian Tattersall will deliver a free, public lecture, “We Are What We Think: The Origins of Modern Human Cognition,” at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, in Hutchins Hall at the Collins Center for […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported a hike and memorial ceremony to honor fallen service members from the University of Maine and surrounding communities will take place Saturday, Sept. 26. The Summit Project (TSP) event will remember service members with a walk from the Maine Veterans’ Home in Bangor to Alfond Stadium on the UMaine campus for […]
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David Clark, a physics lecturer at the University of Maine and member of the Penobscot Valley Star Gazers, spoke with the Portland Press Herald about the rare total lunar eclipse of a supermoon that will take place Sunday, Sept. 27. The specific eclipse has occurred only five times since 1900 and won’t happen again until […]
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The Free Press reported social commentator and political activist Jim Hightower will deliver the University of Maine History Department’s 24th annual Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture on Oct. 1. The national radio commentator, public speaker and New York Times best-selling author will give the talk, “Twenty-First Century Populist Movements are Flourishing at […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Cumberland County will hold two beginner beekeeping courses and one intermediate course at its office at 75 Clearwater Drive, Falmouth. Master Beekeepers Jack Hildreth, Chris Rogers and Peter Richardson, president of the Cumberland County chapter of the Maine State Beekeepers Association, will teach the courses. The intermediate course slated […]
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The Maine Edge carried a University of Maine news release announcing that for the fourth consecutive year, UMaine is hosting two Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants, one in Mandarin Chinese and the other in Arabic. Ming-Tso Chien of Taiwan and Yahya Mahmoud Elsayed of Egypt have been awarded Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program […]
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The Bangor Daily News and Mount Desert Islander published a news release advancing a concert in Southwest Harbor by The Silver Duo, chamber musicians and University of Maine music professors Noreen and Phillip Silver. Acadia Family Center will present the concert at the home of Dr. Dick Dimond at 2:30 pm Saturday, Oct. 3. Seating […]
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The Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory at the University of Maine will hold its third annual open house from 4–6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7. The lab, located in Carnegie Hall, is part of the spatial informatics program in the School of Computing and Information Science and houses Maine’s only research facility that combines […]
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Bruce Segee, the Henry R. and Grace V. Butler Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine, has been named a Campus Champion by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). With Segee’s inclusion, the Campus Champions program, a collaborative effort between XSEDE and campus representatives to promote the use of […]
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Students in a University of Maine service-learning class worked with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bangor to participate in “A Brush with Kindness Week.” The week is a nationwide Habitat for Humanity effort to transform neighborhoods by painting, landscaping and providing minor exterior home repairs in partnership with low-income homeowners. The first week was held […]
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