Scientists in the University of Maine’s School of Food and Agriculture are recruiting students to take part in a study about their ability to acquire and prepare nutritious food. Students who prepare their own food are encouraged to complete the one-hour survey to help researchers understand their cooking skills. Participants will be paid $10 for […]
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The School of Learning and Teaching in the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development will host a series of graduate student research forums to help students meet each other, discuss their research interests, and learn more about faculty scholarship. The School of Learning and Teaching offers several programs for graduate study, from […]
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The University of Maine Department of Anthropology is accepting applications for its new summer field school in digital ethnography. The course, “Digital Ethnography Field School: Exploring and Documenting Maine’s Cultures of Reuse,” is designed to give students firsthand experience with the process of designing and conducting qualitative field research. Students will have the opportunity to […]
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Beginning Feb. 21, the south entrance of Memorial Gym and Gym Drive will be closed to pedestrian and vehicle traffic for emergency repairs to a water main break in the vicinity. For questions, call 581.4400.
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The Collins Center for the Arts is offering free children’s tickets for the upcoming show “Peg + Cat Live!” at 7 p.m. March 8. The interactive live show is based on the Emmy Award-winning PBS Kids series “Peg + Cat.” “We wanted to do something special for the community and thought it would be great […]
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The UMaine Today magazine, the biannual print and online publication of the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications, received three 2019 Excellence Awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District I, which represents the New England states, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces in Canada. It received a Gold Award […]
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The Maine Shared Collections Cooperative, founded by eight of Maine’s largest libraries including Raymond H. Fogler Library at the University of Maine, is expanding its partnership with Online Computer Library Center’s (OCLC) Sustainable Collection Services. The groups will expand a project to analyze library collections throughout Maine and ensure that important print works are identified, […]
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Jahan Ramazani, Edgar F. Shannon Professor and University Professor of English at the University of Virginia, will lead a panel discussion with University of Maine faculty focused on his article, “‘Cosmopolitan Sympathies’: Poetry of the First Global War.” The panelists will discuss the article in relation to their own work in modern and contemporary poetry […]
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The University of Maine’s Division of Lifelong Learning and Diversity Leadership Advisory Committee encourage UMaine employees who are interested in helping to shape a diverse and inclusive campus community to apply for the UMaine Diversity Leadership Institute (UMDLI) 2019–20 cohort. UMDLI was established in 2004 with the mission to provide opportunities to understand, appreciate, support […]
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The Community Connector, a fixed-route bus system serving the Greater Bangor urbanized area, including Orono and the University of Maine, seeks public input regarding how the system might be changed to better meet community needs. The Bangor Area Transit Study survey is available online until Feb. 21. Opinions also can be emailed to feedback@bangortransit.study at […]
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