University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer Cooking for Crowds, a food safety training workshop for volunteer cooks, 1–4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, at UMaine Regional Learning Center, 75 Clearwater Drive, Suite 104, Falmouth. The workshop offers up-to-date information on how to safely handle, transport, store and prepare food for large groups, including at soup […]
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Nominations are being accepted for this year’s Presidential Outstanding Teaching, Public Service Achievement, and Research and Creative Achievement Awards. Recipients will be honored at the Faculty Recognition Luncheon held between Commencement ceremonies on May 9. Deadline for completed nomination forms and materials is March 20. Nomination forms and award criteria are online.
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a free seminar about protecting poultry from disease 10 a.m.–noon Saturday, March 14, at the UMaine Extension Penobscot County office, 307 Maine Ave., Bangor. Information for current and future backyard poultry keepers will include backyard biosecurity, recognizing diseases and National Poultry Improvement Plan participation. For more information and […]
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The University of Maine Training and Safety (UMTS) organization will demonstrate hands-only CPR during the UMaine men’s ice hockey game against Northeastern on Feb. 21. The goal of the student-run group, which operates as part of University Volunteer Ambulance Corps, is to train 1,000 people in hands-only CPR this year. The group is halfway to […]
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The Maine Sheep Breeders Association and University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer three sheep shearing schools in March and April, designed for people with different levels of experience. Four instructors will teach beginner sheep shearing from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 7, at Wolfe’s Neck Farm, 184 Burnett Road, Freeport, Maine. The […]
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The University of Maine’s University Singers will perform several free concerts around central and northern Maine in March as part of the choir’s annual spring tour. Under the direction of Francis Vogt, a School of Performing Arts faculty member, the group of about 60 singers will perform evening shows at middle and high schools and […]
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Several activities are planned as part of the University of Maine’s annual Winter Carnival from Feb. 17–22. The event is open to all UMaine students. Activities will take place throughout campus and include a Mardi Gras celebration in the Memorial Union; a snowman building contest, sledding and fire pit with s’mores and hot cocoa on […]
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The University of Maine Cyber Defense Team has advanced to a regional competition at Syracuse University in March. Members of the team will compete at the annual Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition March 20–22. The team earned its spot in the contest after placing fifth in a preliminary competition with 13 other schools that was […]
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A photography exhibition, “Fish, Wind and Tide: Art and Technology of Maine’s Resources,” is on display through March 21, at the Allen and Sally Fernald Art Gallery at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The free public exhibit showcases photos from the archives of the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine, depicting unique […]
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Middle and high school students who are interested in history are welcome to attend a National History Day (NHD) research workshop at the University of Maine on March 3. Students, along with parents and/or teachers, will have the opportunity to meet with UMaine history faculty, graduate students and library staff from 2:30–4:30 p.m. on campus […]
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