The University of Maine will host “Equity, Access and Inclusion: A World Usability Day Event” 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Nov. 8. World Usability Day, established in 2005, is a day that brings together communities of professional, industrial, educational, citizen and government groups to promote the values of usability, accessibility and universal design to ensure that services […]
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The University of Maine Office of Research Development will present “Grants, Contracts, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)” on Nov. 8. The workshop, which will be held at 2:30 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union, will include a presentation by Terry Yoo, an associate professor in the UMaine School of Computing […]
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Maine writers Paul Doiron and Kristen Lindquist will be the featured guests of the third installment of the Framing Maine conversation series at the University of Maine on Nov. 8. “Framing Maine Three: An Eye for Detail,” will take place at 7 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall. Doiron and Lindquist, who […]
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The University of Maine will recognize veterans with a week of events to coincide with Veterans Day, Nov. 11. The activities are coordinated by the UMaine Office of Veterans Education and Transition Services (VETS) and UMaine Veterans Association. UMaine Veterans Week activities will include the unveiling of the Digital Book of Memory at 11 a.m. […]
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A choral concert and poetry reading commemorating World War I will be held Nov. 9 at the University of Maine and Nov. 11 at the Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono. “We Are the Dead: The Legacy of Loss” is the first set of performance events in the UMaine Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s […]
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The Iraq War and the rise of ISIS will be the focus of a Nov. 7 lecture at the University of Maine by retired U.S. Army colonel and military historian Peter Mansoor. The free public lecture at 3:10 p.m. in 100 D.P. Corbett Business Building will be followed by a question-and-answer session. For more information […]
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Américo Mendoza-Mori, a professor of Spanish and Quechua at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a lecture on indigenous languages beginning at 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5 in Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall. Supporting Indigenous Languages: The Case of Quechua” will focus on the possibilities of supporting indigenous languages like Quechua in colleges and universities. Quechua […]
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A forum for the University of Maine community, “Strategic Vision and Values: Defining Tomorrow at the University of Maine,” will be held Thursday, Nov. 15, from 3–4:30 p.m. in Wells Conference Center, led by President Joan Ferrini-Mundy and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Jeffrey Hecker. This forum will launch a series of […]
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A two-day professional development program, “Past Trauma and Current Relationships: Integrating Nonviolent Communication and Interpersonal Neurobiology,” will be offered Nov. 5–6 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The interactive program will benefit participants from a variety of fields, including for-profit and nonprofit sectors, education, health care, criminology and social services. Participants will […]
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The Office of Multicultural Student Life, American Indian Student Organization (AISO) and Wabanaki Center collaborate annually to recognize Native American Heritage Month at the University of Maine with a variety of events throughout November. Native American Heritage Month traditionally recognizes and celebrates the extraordinary contributions and accomplishments of First Nations and indigenous communities. At UMaine, […]
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