The Darling Marine Center invites community members to learn how the center helps connect people with the ocean by taking a public tour and attending summer science seminars. Free public tours of the DMC’s waterfront facilities and research labs begin Wednesday, June 27 and occur weekly from July 11 to Aug. 15. There is no […]
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Nearly 200 of Maine’s Special Olympics athletes received free hearing screenings on June 9 thanks to 18 University of Maine speech pathology graduate students. Compared to the general population, people with intellectual or developmental disabilities are more likely to experience hearing loss or ear problems, and most are cases undetected or under-treated prior to these […]
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Preserving the garden’s harvest is the focus of three hands-on workshops this summer with University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Somerset County. All workshops will be held 5:30－8:30 p.m. at the UMaine Extension office, 7 County Drive, Skowhegan. Workshop dates and items to be preserved are: June 27 — Strawberry jam; register online July […]
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Youth ages 5–18 are invited to enroll by July 2 in the Piscataquis Passport Project, intended to help them and their families access healthy food and fun activities this summer in the Dover-Foxcroft area. The project is a collaboration between University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H and community partners in Piscataquis County. Enrollment forms are […]
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The University of Maine’s national search for the next permanent athletics director will be aided by consultant Gene DeFilippo, managing director of Turnkey Search who has four decades of experience in intercollegiate sports. DeFilippo is on campus this week to meet with search committee chair Dr. Robert Dana, UMaine vice president for student life and […]
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The University of Maine Athletics Department is partnering with local businesses to host a free community movie night on Morse Field at Alfond Stadium at 8 p.m. June 22. Members of the public are welcome to bring blankets and refreshments and enjoy a showing of “Space Jam.” The event is the first in the Orono […]
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Twenty-one representatives from six other universities will gather at the University of Maine for a summit on campus hazing June 13–14 at Doris Twitchell Allen Village. The institutions are members of the Hazing Prevention Consortium, a multi-year research-to-practice initiative led by UMaine professor of higher education Elizabeth Allan to build an evidence base for hazing […]
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Have you heard the old saying about selling seashells by the seashore? Well, what about telling sea stories about the seashore? If you haven’t yet, don’t worry, it’ll catch on soon. This summer, the Maine Discovery Museum is hosting SEANET education outreach assistant Jordan Houdeshell for a weekly Seaside Stories hour in downtown Bangor. The […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension holds its annual sustainable agriculture field day tour Wednesday, June 27, 4:30–7:30 p.m. at UMaine’s Rogers Farm, 914 Bennoch Road, Old Town. The free public event is designed for farmers, crop advisors and people interested in agricultural production who want to learn more about sustainable agriculture research with a focus […]
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In May, 19 University of Maine Geology Club members and two faculty took a 10-day field trip to Iceland. The focus of the student-planned trip was on glacial deposits and volcanic rocks in the south of Iceland. The group toured Thingvellir National Park, site of Iceland’s first government and the center of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge […]
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