Twenty-time Grammy Award-winner Pat Metheny will lead an accomplished international ensemble Sunday, Jan. 15 at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. At 15, the guitar player began working with professional jazz musicians and at 19, he became the youngest-ever teacher at the Berklee College of Music. At 7 p.m. Jan […]
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The President’s Council for University of Maine Retirees is soliciting nominations for the 2017 Barbara Hikel Retiree Award. The annual award is given to a UMaine retiree who provides extraordinary voluntary service to the university. The honor was established in 2006 in memory and recognition of Barbara Hikel, a longtime employee who continued to serve […]
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Registration is open for University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s 32nd annual Maine Potato Conference and trade show, Jan. 18–19, at Caribou Inn and Convention Center in Caribou. The conference is designed for potato producers, farm workers and crop advisers. Scheduled speakers include UMaine Extension crop and soil specialists, UMaine and UMaine Presque Isle researchers, Maine […]
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The Holstein Association USA announced this month that a member of the J.F. Witter Teaching and Research Center’s dairy herd ranks among the top 10,000 registered Holsteins in the country for Total Performance Index (CTPI). With more than 22 million registered Holsteins in the United States, the distinction places UM Robust Rosmerta in the top […]
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This month, the University of Maine Cooperative Extension will celebrate farming in the state at the annual State of Maine Agricultural Trades Show. Residents are encouraged to visit the UMaine Extension booth during the show, Jan. 10–12 at the Augusta Civic Center. UMaine Extension offers a variety of farming resources, including several publications: Maine Family […]
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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 next application deadline is Jan. 30. Proposals must be submitted online using the CA/DLS Grant Application […]
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University of Maine professors Jennifer Moxley and Beth Wiemann are scheduled to showcase their opera at the John Duffy Institute for New Opera in Norfolk, Virginia in March. During the week of March 12–17, the pair will workshop excerpts from “Until the War is Over,” an opera based on the novel “Bid Me to Live” […]
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Barbara F. (Fraser) Csavinszky, longtime associate professor of home economics and health education at the University of Maine until her 1995 retirement, died Dec. 25 at a Bangor hospital. She was 82. Csavinszky earned her M.Ed. at UMaine. Her husband, former UMaine physics professor Peter J. Csavinszky, died in 1995. Contributions in her memory may […]
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Janet (Kahrer) TeBrake, a longtime professor in the History Department, died after a brief illness Dec. 26 at a Bangor hospital. She was 69. TeBrake earned a Ph.D. in modern Irish and British history at UMaine. And from 1991 until her retirement in 2013, she was a faculty member at the university. TeBrake, formerly of […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension is celebrating the 952 Master Gardener Volunteers who, combined, gave more than 35,000 hours of their time to a variety of educational and food security projects in 2016. The team supported 80 community gardens, 86 school gardens, 103 demonstration gardens and 56 programs involving 1,579 youth in horticulture activities this […]
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