John Belding, director of the Advanced Manufacturing Center at the University of Maine, will speak about 3-D digital design and printing at the Digital Fabrication (DigiFab) and 3-D Technologies Conference in Portland on Friday, Nov. 1. The Maine Chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and the University of Southern Maine will host the […]
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Aaron Putnam, a research associate at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, is a co-author of a journal article for Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). Wallace S. Broecker, Newberry Professor of Geology at Columbia University’s The Earth Institute, is the lead author of the article […]
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The University of Maine Standardbred Drill Team invites the campus community and public to the annual Trick or Trot on Sunday, Oct. 27, 5-7 p.m., at UMaine’s Witter Farm, 160 University Road in Old Town. Trick-or-trotters are invited to wear Halloween costumes and meet and have their photos taken with costumed horses. Farm Superintendent Jake […]
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Ronald Brown, who worked for the University of Maine for 42 years as project manager and staff associate in the Office of Facilities Management, passed away Oct. 18, 2013 at 62 years old. His obituary is available online.
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Four creative guests will take part in this semester’s University of Maine Intermedia MFA Program’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Painter Dudley Zopp will lecture at 7 p.m. Oct. 29 at the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center (IMRC). His installations constructed with builder’s paper, paintings and found materials transport viewers through geological and cultural history. […]
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The University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development has partnered with the Maine Department of Education to create a statewide system of supports for Mainers who serve children with autism and their families. The Maine Autism Institute for Education and Research (MAIER) will open Jan. 1, 2014 on the UMaine campus. Deborah Rooks-Ellis, […]
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University of Maine marine scientist Rhian Waller shares experiences and photographs from her recent deep-sea coral expedition in Chile in her blogs on the National Geographic website. In September, Waller traveled to Huinay Scientific Field Station near the northern Patagonian fjords to collect final samples from a yearlong deep-sea coral monitoring program studying how climate […]
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University of Maine Professor of Music Beth Wiemann is a fellow in the Hambidge Creative Residency Program in Dillard, Ga., where she is working on a piece tentatively titled “Before the Snow” for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s fall 2014 tour. Residencies at Hambidge, situated in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, are awarded by […]
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The University of Maine Symphonic Band and the UMaine Jazz Ensemble will both perform at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27 at the Collins Center for the Arts. Under the direction of Christopher White, the University of Maine Symphonic Band will play pieces by Gustav Theodore Holst, Toshio Iwai, John Philip Sousa, Eric Whitacre and François-Joseph […]
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On Oct. 17, the Maine Development Foundation and the University of Maine’s School of Economics and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center released the second quarterly report analyzing critical economic indicators in Maine. The latest report looks at Maine’s relatively low per capita personal income. The first report, released in August, addressed Maine’s comparatively low level […]
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