Outreach

TV Report on Suicide Prevention Walk

Sunday’s third annual Out of the Darkness Walk, which raises money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and is held on campus and in Orono, was covered by Bangor television station WABI (Channel 5). Kylie Cole, the prevention and education coordinator and a staff psychologist the UMaine’s Counseling Center, was interviewed for the story. […]

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Water Quality Researchers Interviewed

The Central Maine Morning Sentinel interviewed two UMaine researchers in advance of an upcoming private well water quality issues conference in Connecticut which they will both attend. John Peckenham, director of the Maine Water Resources Research Institute at UMaine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center, who will deliver a talk about analyzing contaminants in private drinking […]

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UMaine joins Gig.U effort to improve local broadband access

The University of Maine has joined 36 other college in Gig.U, a coalition of universities and communities working to bring high-speed computer networks to those institutions and communities that surround them. The group will collaborate with private entities to provide innovative, cost-effective strategies to deploy Internet at speeds several hundred times faster than what is […]

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Television programs to highlight sustainability science

Maine Public Broadcasting Network has produced “Sustainable Maine,” two half-hour television programs focusing on sustainability science in Maine.  Several UMaine experts will appear in the programs which, as noted in an MPBN news release, detail “a new way of combining biophysical sciences with social science and economics to study Maine’s changing landscape, and how to […]

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Intermedia faculty, students at museum

Two faculty members and a student from UMaine’s Intermedia MFA Program will be exhibiting and performing at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art next month. Intermedia faculty members Deborah Wing-Sproul and Nate Aldrich and  graduate student Gabriella D’Italia will all present works in October and December. For more information visit the Center for Maine Contemporary […]

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Collins Center for the Arts film series

Eight films are scheduled for UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts, Thursday nights in the fall beginning Sept. 15.  Show time is 7 p.m. with an admission charge of $6. Thursday, Sept. 15 Buck Thursday, Sept. 22 Midnight in Paris Thursday, Sept. 29 Beats, Rhymes & Life Thursday, Oct. 6 Cave of Forgotten Dreams Thursday, […]

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Faculty members to participate in lecture series

University of Maine faculty members Constanza Ocampo-Raeder and Maria Sandweiss will present September lectures at Bangor Public Library.  Their talks will be part of the Centro Hispano – The Hispanic Center of Bangor 2011 lecture series.  That organization works to inform the community about Hispanic heritage and culture. Ocampo-Raeder, a professor in UMaine’s Dept. of […]

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Education Commissioner Bowen at UMaine Monday Maine Education Commissioner Stephen Bowen is spending Monday Sept. 12 at UMaine, as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Bowen will meet with students, faculty members and staff members, in addition to President Paul Ferguson and Provost Susan Hunter.

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News story previews basket maker exhibit

Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a feature story about basket maker James Frey, a Passamaquoddy artist from Princeton whose work has received wide acclaim.  His work will be on display at UMaine’s Hudson Museum beginning Sept. 24 as part of “Transcending Traditions: The Next Generation of Maine Indian Basketry.  

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Anderson to give sustainability talks at UMPI and UMFK

Mark Anderson, senior instructor in the UMaine School of Economics, will return to his native Aroostook County to give a pair of mid-September talks on sustainability.  A key contributor to Maine’s Sustainability Solutions Initiative, a statewide, interdisciplinary research and outreach effort based at UMaine, Anderson will discuss “Toward a Theory of Sustainability: An Exercise in […]

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