Annie, Sandy and Daddy Warbucks are back for this new incarnation of the original “Annie” to be performed at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, at the Collins Center for the Arts. The smash Tony Award-winning production about a spirited red-haired orphan’s search for a loving home is directed by original lyricist and director Martin Charnin […]
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Two students in the University of Maine Intermedia MFA Program will present their work at the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor at 1 p.m. April 26. Alicia Champlin will discuss her recent performance installation, “MOTIVE,” in the context of a research-based experimental practice. The performance, which took place in December 2016, was […]
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Four students from the University of Maine competed in the 16th Annual North American Intercollegiate Dairy Challenge (NAIDC) this spring in Visalia, California. The event drew 230 students from 37 colleges across the U.S. and Canada. The Dairy Challenge is a unique, real-world experience where students work as a team and apply their college coursework […]
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The University of Maine Department of Political Science has announced the 2017–18 awardees of the John M. Nickerson University of Maine Scholarship. The six selected students were awarded scholarship support after being chosen by the department based on their overall GPA and faculty evaluations. For the 2017–18 year, the recipients of the John M. Nickerson […]
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Making the transition from the military to a civilian career can be daunting for student-veterans. The Black Bear Veteran Network has been established to connect UMaine alumni veterans and current UMaine student-veterans to mentor, share knowledge, create networking opportunities and assist each other. Registration for the Black Bear Veteran Network is online. Note: There is […]
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Artist and University of Maine Intermedia MFA faculty member Susan Smith will present her work April 25 at the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center. Smith’s 7 p.m. presentation is part of Tuesdays at the IMRC, the UMaine Intermedia MFA program’s visiting artist lecture series. Smith lives in the small town of Dover-Foxcroft, where […]
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University of Maine construction engineering technology seniors are planning the renovation of a house in Old Town in partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Bangor. Twenty students have begun the planning phase during the last few weeks of the spring semester, and will be managing and performing the construction work in the fall semester […]
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A collaboration of groups and individuals will kick off the first Maine Composts Week on Sunday, May 7. The statewide event will promote reducing the amount of unused food, sharing unserved food with people who are food insecure and diverting unused food to composting and anaerobic digestion facilities to minimize the amount of food being […]
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Four free “Signs of the Seasons” trainings sessions for volunteer citizen scientists are being offered by University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant. Participants are trained to observe the signs of spring — budding leaves, blooming flowers, peeping frogs, singing birds — that are indicators of a much larger cycle of seasonal changes that […]
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Leigh Boyle, founder and executive director of The Lipstick Project, will deliver two public talks at the University of Maine on April 25. The Lipstick Project, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, was established in 2012 by a group of young women who wanted to bring dignity and beauty into the last days of people’s lives. […]
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