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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Pride Week at the University of Maine is an annual tradition to celebrate LGBTQ+ students that includes events for everyone — from members of the LGBTQ+ community, to those questioning their identity, to allies hoping to learn more. “LGBTQ+ students are present, living and thriving on campus, and our goal with this annual initiative is […]
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The Geddes W. Simpson Lecture Series Selection Committee is calling for nominations for the 18th Geddes W. Simpson Lecture, which will be held fall 2019. The Geddes W. Simpson Lecture invites speakers of prominence who have provided significant insight into the area where science and history intersect. The Geddes W. Simpson Lecture Series Fund was […]
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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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