Black Bear Food Guild, the University of Maine’s community-supported agriculture (CSA) share program organized and managed by sustainable agriculture students, is entering its 25th season this summer. Full, half and quarter shares are being offered on a first-come, first-served basis for $525, $350 and $200, respectively. The 2019 season will run from early June through […]
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Building awareness of disease and learning screening techniques for sheep, goats, alpacas and other small ruminants is the focus of the second annual small ruminants health workshop 1–4 p.m. April 13 at the Foxcroft Large Animal Veterinary Associates (FLAVA) Clinic in Dover-Foxcroft. Sponsored by University of Maine Cooperative Extension and FLAVA, topics include common diseases […]
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April and May events in the University of Maine Collins Center for the Arts’ 2018–19 season will include a musical duo and a trio, and two theatre productions broadcast from London. The Beijing Guitar Duo will perform at 3 p.m. April 14 in Minsky Recital Hall. Members Meng Su and Yameng Wang have toured extensively, […]
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How can music, enabled by new technological tools and scientific concepts, increase awareness of self and connection with others, promote lifelong health and well-being, and build stronger communities and societies? These questions will be the focus of Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar Tod Machover’s free, public lecture “From Robotic Operas to City Symphonies and Beyond” […]
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Lisa Klein, author of the young adult novel “Ophelia,” will discuss her reinterpretation of the classic play “Hamlet” as told from Ophelia’s point of view at 5 p.m. April 12 in Neville Hall, Room 101. “Hamlet’s Girlfriend Gets a Life” is part of the Stephen E. King Chair Lecture Series at the University of Maine, […]
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Gerald “Jerry” McMorrow Herlihy, founder of the Onward Program at the University of Maine, passed away April 5. Herlihy spent his professional career helping students achieve their dreams of obtaining a college degree, according to his obituary.
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The LGBTQ+ Allies Council at the University of Maine will hold a Faculty + Staff Social during Pride Week from 3:30–5 p.m. April 9 in the University Club on the second floor of Fogler Library. This event is open to all LGBTQ+ faculty and staff as well as allies of the LGBTQ+ community. While […]
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As part of the University of Maine’s Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s Symposium series, Libby Bischof, executive director of the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education and professor of history at the University of Southern Maine, will give a lecture from noon–2 p.m. April 9 in Room 100, Nutting Hall. “Memorializing […]
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A group of senior nursing students at the University of Maine are collecting children’s pajamas for a Bangor hospital to give to patients who need them. Caroline Bush of Holden, Maine; Brooke Hammond of Frankfort, Maine; and Lauren Martin and Jordan Richards, both of Bradley, Maine, are enrolled in NUR 452 — Community and Population […]
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Donations and volunteers are being sought for the Maine Day Meal Packout at the University of Maine on May 1. In food-packing events, campus and community volunteers box meals that are donated to food banks and community organizations that feed the hungry. “The broad goal of the Maine Day Meal Packout is to raise awareness […]
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