The Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Committee is accepting grant applications from the University of Maine community. Grants support up to 50 percent of expenses associated with cultural events that enhance the artistic, cultural and intellectual life of UMaine. The CA/DLS committee accepts applications four times a year. The next application deadline is Nov. 26 for […]
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University of Maine faculty, staff and graduate students will discuss evidence-guided teaching and learning strategies with preK–12 STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) teachers Nov. 16–17 at Point Lookout in Northport. About 125 attendees are expected at the eighth annual fall summit of the Maine STEM Partnership, a statewide education improvement community. “The summit is […]
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The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine will welcome Vincent Sherry, a leading scholar of modernism and the literature of World War I, to campus Nov. 15 and 16. Sherry will deliver a lecture on “Modernism in Wartime: Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, Poetries” at 3 p.m. Nov. 16 in Hill Auditorium, Barrows […]
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The second annual Maine Sheep Conference and Maine Sheep Breeders Association meeting will be held 9 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Nov. 10 at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Penobscot County office in Bangor. Conference topics include nutrition management, wintering sheep practices, wool buyers’ preferences, and an update from Anne Lichtenwalner, UMaine Extension Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory director. […]
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John Patrick’s classic play “The Curious Savage” is the latest offering from the University of Maine School of Performing Arts, opening Friday, Nov. 9 at Hauck Auditorium. The production runs for seven performances: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9–10 and Nov. 16–17; 2 p.m. Nov. 11 and 18; and 10 a.m. Nov. 15. Tickets are $10 and […]
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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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