University of Maine President Paul W. Ferguson has named Jeffrey E. Hecker as executive vice president for academic affairs and provost effective Sept. 1. Hecker is currently the dean of UMaine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He replaces Provost Susan Hunter, who was named vice chancellor for academic affairs for the University of Maine […]
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Bill Kuykendall, senior lecturer in new media at the University of Maine, has published his first e-book which will be available for download on Apple’s iBookstore starting Aug. 1. The e-book, “Memories of a Mountaineer,” culminated from interviews with celebrated woodsman, soldier, carver and philosopher Sterling Spencer of Richwood, W.Va., about his life growing up […]
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Final group videos by student teams in the Upward Bound Math Science Summer Program will be presented from 8–11 a.m., July 26, Woolley Room, Doris Twitchell Allen Village. The high school students gained hands-on experience working with UMaine graduate students or faculty planning and designing sustainability solutions. This summer, those sustainability solutions included designing safe, […]
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The works of seven graduating master’s students in intermedia will be featured in the 10th Annual Without Borders Festival, Aug. 9–Sept. 27 in the University of Maine’s Lord Hall Gallery. The exhibit is sponsored by UMaine’s Intermedia MFA Program. A public reception is scheduled for Sept. 6, 5:30–7 p.m. For more information or to request […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ annual Maine Summer Youth Music (MSYM) camp opened the first of two sessions on July 15 with more than 200 junior campers from around Maine, the U.S. and the world. This session will mark the 33rd annual junior camp, directed by UMaine faculty member Chris White. White, […]
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University of Maine Athletics and its multimedia rights partner, Learfield Sports, have entered into separate, two-year agreements with Rockfleet Broadcasting III LLC/Bangor Communications LLC, and with FOX College Sports for broadcast and distribution of Black Bear athletics events, beginning with the upcoming football season. Bangor’s WVII ABC 7 and WFVX FOX 22 will broadcast in […]
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Registration is still open for the Food Waste Management Workshop sponsored by the Maine Compost Team and the University of Maine, Aug. 21–22 in Orono. The two-day event will feature information on UMaine’s new food material in-vessel compost system and how schools, corporations, entertainment and food industries can turn waste into a renewable product. The […]
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The University of Maine’s Department of Communication and Journalism is hosting the annual Doctoral Honors Seminar of the National Communication Association, July 18–21 at the Schoodic Education and Research Center in Bar Harbor. For more than three decades, the seminar has brought together the top doctoral students and faculty nationwide to discuss current topics in […]
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“Not intending to yelp, but my fere is an egleche berb. Because of him, this vere we are sicker than we have ever been from the rice.” Not fluent in Middle English of the 13th to 15th centuries? Contemporary readers have a new utensil for deciphering medieval manuscripts — the Digital Index of Middle English […]
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This summer, UMaine faculty members Nancy Ellen Ogle and Ginger Yang Hwalek will present the first in a series of concerts titled “Dear Darwin,” celebrating their forthcoming CD of this new song cycle on Parma Recordings. Based on a book of poems by Kathleen Lignell Ellis, the 26 songs comprise an “abc-darium,” engaging Darwin’s ideas […]
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