University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Waldo County Extension Association are hosting the 25th annual Rural Living Day 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. April 6 at Mount View High School in Thorndike. Participants can choose from 24 different workshops on topics that include backyard beekeeping; solar energy; Amish technology; growing hops, fruit trees, medicinal herbs, strawberries or […]
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Award-winning filmmaker Dan Habib will be on campus April 4 for a free public screening of his documentary “Intelligent Lives,” detailing the stories of three young American adults with intellectual disabilities. The screening at 4 p.m. in Soderberg Auditorium, Jenness Hall is sponsored by the University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, […]
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Four Maine entrepreneurs will talk about their businesses and how they achieved success in the first event of the Maine Business School Executive Speaker Series on April 4 at the University of Maine. Noah Bissell of Bissell Brothers Brewing Co., Kate McAleer of Bixby & Co. craft chocolates, and Jack and Max Barber of Mainely […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension is now accepting tick samples for tick-borne disease testing. Maine residents can have ticks tested for the pathogens that cause the three most common tick-borne diseases — Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and babesiosis — for $15 per sample. Species identification of tick samples continues to be free. Testing is done at […]
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Robert Frost said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” For centuries, poets have espoused the therapeutic values of poetry. The discipline of poetry therapy grew from this intuitive initial awareness of the medium’s potential healing power. University of Maine student Kim Crowley, a Clement and Linda […]
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Farm tractor safety classes taught by University of Maine Cooperative Extension educators and area experts begin 6–8 p.m. April 3 at Union Farm Equipment, 1893 Heald Highway, Union. Courses also are scheduled in Cumberland, Kennebec, Oxford and Waldo counties. The multi-session classes are designed for adults and youth at least 14 years of age, and […]
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University of Maine alumna Melissa Smith, president and CEO of WEX, will return to campus April 11 as a Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow. In 1991, Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in accounting at UMaine. At WEX — a provider of payment solutions that serves […]
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The School of Policy and International Affairs at the University of Maine will host a talk titled “Can We Live with China? A Roadmap for Co-Evolution” at 5 p.m. April 2 in the McIntire Room of Buchanan Alumni House. The talk will be given by Susan Thornton, visiting lecturer in law at Yale Law School […]
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Eleven graduate students competed in the annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition on March 25 at the Innovative Media Research Center at the University of Maine. The unique competition, developed by the University of Queensland, requires presenters to explain their research using language the general public would comprehend in three minutes. The competitors were allowed […]
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The University of Maine Department of Art will present the 2019 Juried Student Art Exhibition that features work by current studio art, art history and art education students. The exhibition will be on display April 5 to May 3 in Lord Hall Gallery. The venue provides an opportunity for undergraduate students at all levels to […]
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