The 12-hour University of Maine Miracle Network Dance Marathon will be held from 1 p.m. Saturday, April 1 to 1 a.m. Sunday, April 2 at the New Balance Student Recreation Center on campus. Since 2012, the annual event has raised more than $275,000 to help area hospitals support local children. The event, which in 2015 […]
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The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development is again sponsoring Literacy Volunteers of Bangor’s Literacy Tea fundraiser. The idea for the event came from Susan Bennett-Armistead, an associate professor of literacy at UMaine, whose mother-in-law held literacy teas in Michigan. Bennett-Armistead organized the first literacy tea in Bangor when she served on […]
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The Department of Communication and Journalism will welcome The Washington Post reporters Jessica Contrera and Katie Mettler as visiting journalists March 29–31 as part of the Alan Miller Fund for Excellence in Journalism. In addition to meeting students and visiting journalism classes, they will give a free public talk titled, “Clickbait, Fake News, and the […]
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As Maine’s flagship university, the University of Maine is constantly gauging its success in the pursuit of excellence in its mission of teaching, research and public engagement. One such measurement comes from The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Great Colleges to Work For” Project. UMaine has joined this program, which features an employee survey to help […]
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From sessions on climate action and solid waste to ocean acidification and green infrastructure, the 2017 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference will feature an expanded agenda on topics affecting Maine, New England, the country and the globe. The event will be held Thursday, March 30 at the Augusta Civic Center and will include two concurrent […]
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Members of the University of Maine community are invited to celebrate the differences that contribute to the campus and surrounding areas during Diversity Week and Islamic Awareness Week, March 27–31. Highlights of Diversity Week, which is put on by the Office of Multicultural Student Life, include a panel discussion and book talk. “Can We Really […]
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The University of Maine Campus Activities & Student Engagement (CASE) is inviting UMaine departments and offices, as well student organizations to sign up for the 2017 Maine Day parade. Each year, Maine Day kicks off with a university-wide parade. This year’s parade will begin outside the Emera Astronomy Center at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 3. […]
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Rhonda Y. Williams, professor of history and director of the Social Justice Institute at Case Western Reserve University, will deliver the annual Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture on April 6. Williams’ lecture, “Concrete Demands: Black Power Histories and Legacies in the 21st Century,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall. […]
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University of Maine Professor Emeritus Hal Borns and Gary Hoyle, artist and former curator at the Maine State Museum, will present “Mammoths in Maine,” at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 28 in the Bodwell Lounge of the Hudson Museum. Borns and Hoyle will speak about the history of the ancient animal in the state. A tusk […]
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The University of Maine Darling Marine Center is the site of a five-day workshop for college and university instructors of developmental biology. The June 27–July 1 Developmental Biology Teaching Workshop introduces senior faculty and the next generation of developmental biologists to a variety of laboratory tools and a host of research organisms. Low-budget, high-impact microscopy […]
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