The University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor will offer ART@NOON, an informal gallery talk and tour with UMMA Director George Kinghorn at 12 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12. Kinghorn will discuss the museum’s current exhibition “From Piranesi to Picasso: Master Prints from the Permanent Collection,” on display through March 22. ART@NOON gallery talks […]
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UMaine’s CCAR assists in development of recirculating aquaculture technology.
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WABI (Channel 5) covered the third annual 12-hour BearFest Dance Marathon held at the University of Maine’s New Balance Student Recreation Center. The student-run event was held to raise money for Eastern Maine Medical Center, an EMHS Foundation Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. Theo Koboski, a student organizer of the event, said BearFest offers a great […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a feature article on Roosevelt Boone, a former University of Maine football player and current graduate student pursuing master’s degrees in kinesiology and physical education as well as human development. Boone is the co-founder of Strong Mind-Strong Body Inc., a nonprofit organization that sponsors free programs that promote physical education, […]
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The University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation was mentioned in City Council Chairman Ben Sprague’s 38 ideas for how to attract more people to live and work in Bangor, the Bangor Daily News reported. “Work to link University of Maine Innovation Center efforts to Bangor” was listed in Sprague’s proposal of 38 “action […]
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The MBS Corps, the Maine Business School’s community outreach organization, will hold its first monthly food drive Feb. 4–5 in the atrium of the D.P. Corbett Business Building at the University of Maine. Those who donate a food item will receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win prizes including an official UMaine T-shirt, […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported Sweet Frog, a frozen yogurt shop in Bangor, hosted a spirit night to raise funds for the University of Maine’s third annual BearFest. During the event, 20 percent of the shop’s proceeds went to the 12-hour BearFest Dance Marathon that is being held Feb. 1 to raise money for Eastern Maine […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on an immersive program founded by Jeff Thaler, assistant university counsel and a visiting professor of energy policy, law and ethics at the University of Maine, that places Williams College students in the homes of Portland immigrants and asylum seekers. The experience aims to help students of the private school […]
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University of Maine students were on hand at the Challenger Learning Center’s Family Engineering Night in Bangor, WVII (Channel 7) reported. The annual event is held to get children and their families excited about math and science. Evelyn Fairman, vice president of UMaine’s Society of Women Engineers, said at the event children are given a […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Sue Righthand, a clinical psychologist who works with the Department of Corrections and an associate professor of psychology at the University of Maine, for the article “Experts: Sex assaults by children in Maine not rare, but treatment works.” Righthand, who has published several reports on sexual offenders in Maine, […]
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