Campus Announcements

Retirement reception for Gallant, Ford June 27

A retirement reception for Willi Gallant and Caren Ford from the University of Maine Athletics Department will be held at 1 p.m., June 27 in Alfond Family Lounge. Between them, the two have dedicated more than 66 years to the University of Maine, including 31 years of service to the Athletics Department.

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Baycka Voronietsky passes away

Baycka Voronietsky, a former associate professor of piano at the University of Maine, passed away June 1. After moving to Corea, Maine in 1978, she began teaching at UMaine and would continue to do so for the next 35 years, according to her obituary.

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Darling Marine Center

Community invited to engage, explore, experience ocean research at DMC

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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Speech pathology graduate students help Special Olympians hear more clearly

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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Preserve beans, strawberry jam, tomatoes with UMaine Extension

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 invited to sign up for Piscataquis 4-H Passport Project for food, fun

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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UMaine AD search consultant named

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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Free screening of ‘Space Jam’ June 22 on Morse Field

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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UMaine hosts hazing prevention summit June 13–14

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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Get your feet wet this summer at the Maine Discovery Museum

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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