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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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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Kathryn Hopkins, University of Maine Extension educator in the Somerset Extension office in Skowhegan, received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of County Agriculture Agents during the recent 2011 Annual Meeting and Professional Improvement Conference in Overland Park, Kansas. Hopkins was one of several honorees representing the top two percent of the membership […]
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The UMaine community will host a Sunday memorial event for those who lost their lives in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 Sunday, September 11, 2011 University Mall, near the Fogler Library 8:30am: Gathering 8:40am: Welcome and ROTC Color Guard 8:46am: Moment of Silence (in memory of the first tower being struck) 8:47am: Speaker 9:02am: […]
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Some 1,895 people, mostly high school seniors and their family members, are registered for the University of Maine’s Monday, Aug. 22 Summer Tour 2011 open house event. Modeled after a similar open house last August, Summer Tour 2011 represents a fresh approach to the traditional open house. Prospective students and their families will have ample […]
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WVII recently interviewed University of Maine Advanced Manufacturing Center Director John Belding about a new medical device, an electronic tuning fork, developed by Orono podiatrist Dr. Todd O’Brien and staff and students at the AMC. O’Brien intends to have the device mass-produced and available for physicians and also diabetics, whose foot sensitivity often is measured […]
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WVII television (Channel 7) covered a Monday high school summit on Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS), held at UMaine’s Buchanan Alumni House. Owen Maurais and Jim Artesani of the UMaine College of Education and Human Development were among the primary organizers of the event, which featured a presentation from a New Hampshire high school […]
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Wayne Maines, UMaine’s director of Safety, Environmental Management, Transportation and Security, made two presentation’s at July’s Campus Safety, Health and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA) conference in Minneapolis. Maines conducted a four-hour professional workshop, “Developing, tracking and presenting your EHS Master Plan on a shoestring budget.” He also make a technical program presentation, “How do you […]
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Eva Wagner of Thorndike has been named education coordinator at the University of Maine Museum of Art.
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A University of Maine workshop, scheduled for July 21-23, will focus on the DIR®/Floortime™ model, which offers a comprehensive framework that allows therapists, parents, and educators to construct an intervention program tailored to the unique challenges and strengths of each child with developmental challenges, including autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities.
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