A bus accident with multiple injuries will be the focus of a disaster simulation April 27 at the the University of Maine for students in the School of Nursing and University Volunteer Ambulance Corps (UVAC). The event, from 1–4 p.m. on campus, will feature a simulated bus accident and 31 actors with a range of […]
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University of Maine graduate students and faculty will make more than 60 presentations about emerging climate change research on topics from lobsters to deer ticks at the 24th annual Harold W. Borns Jr. Symposium on April 14–15, in Stodder Hall. The symposium namesake, Professor Emeritus Harold “Hal” Borns, founded the Climate Change Institute at UMaine […]
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Reference Services at Fogler Library has created an online guide for anyone preparing posters, presentations or papers for conferences. The tool may be particularly helpful to students participating in the 2016 UMaine Graduate and Undergraduate Student Research Symposium on April 27 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.
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The Department of Sociology and Office of Multicultural Student Life are among the latest programs to upgrade to the university’s new website template. The Center for Cooperative Aquaculture Research and Newman Center also recently upgraded. The new umaine.edu and related pages debuted in summer 2015. For more information on the UMaine website conversion, contact Mike […]
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University of Maine students can enjoy authentic cuisine from France, Regional Italy and the Mediterranean at three on-campus dining locations during UMaine Dining’s Taste of the World on Thursday, April 7. During the annual event, menus, decor and music at each dining facility — Hilltop Commons, York Commons and Wells Central — will spotlight a […]
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Undergraduate students from the School of Marine Sciences will present the research they conducted for their capstone projects on Thursday, April 7 in Wells Conference Center. Students prepared posters to explain their research, and will be available to answer questions from 3 to 5 p.m. An award ceremony will follow.
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University of Maine doctoral student Skylar Bayer and oceanographer Bob Steneck will deliver TEDx talks at separate events in May. Bayer, based at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole, will take the stage at TEDxPiscataquaRiver “On the Edge” on Friday, May 6, at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Bayer, a doctoral candidate in marine […]
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About 60 students and teachers from area high schools are expected to celebrate World Languages Day at the University of Maine on Friday, April 8 with a culture bowl, campus scavenger hunt, poetry readings, skits, games and traditional dance lessons. The event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Bangor Room […]
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Fogler Library is offering a trial of the database “African American Communities” from Adam Matthew. According to the website, the database “showcases a diverse range of primary source material focusing on race relations across social, political, cultural and religious arenas. … Focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Brooklyn, and towns and cities in North […]
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A project to bring full-text scores from the Maine Music Box database into Digital Commons is underway. The first of several series to be migrated is the “Vocal Popular Sheet Music Collection” with 5,200 illustrated sheet music scores now available on Digital Commons. Materials in the public domain, or published before 1923, may be downloaded […]
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