Ronald Beard, extension educator with the University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant, was recently awarded the Gulf of Maine Council 2013 Visionary Award for Maine. The award is presented annually to an individual or organization within each of the Gulf of Maine jurisdictions of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Brunswick and Nova […]
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Members of the University of Maine swimming and diving team will attend the presentation of a $7,500 check to Spruce Run in Bangor on Thursday. The money was raised through the inaugural Erin’s Run: 5K Road Race. This year’s race was held in Bangor in April to honor Erin McGrath Woolley, a former UMaine student, […]
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Marisue Pickering, professor emerita in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Maine, and her husband John Pickering, a former teacher at both Orono’s Asa Adams School and UMaine’s College of Education and Human Development, have released a tourism book titled “Maine — Beyond the Usual.” The travel guide contains information, stories and photographs […]
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University of Maine Professor of Music Emeritus Curvin “Chip” Farnham was recently inducted into the Maine Music Educators Association Hall of Fame and honored at the association’s conference. Laura Artesani, associate professor in the Division of Music in the School of Performing Arts at UMaine, nominated Farnham for induction. Farnham was UMaine’s director of bands […]
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The University of Maine, in collaboration with the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, will host a half-day symposium June 21 on the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle that attacks and kills ash trees, and what can be done to slow its spread in Maine. The free event starts at 8:30 a.m. in Wells Conference Center, […]
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A group of about 50 seventh-graders from Amistad Academy Middle School in New Haven, Conn. toured the University of Maine on Thursday, June 6. The students were accompanied by their teacher, Abigail Herrick, a 2010 University of Maine graduate and former Team Maine member. Highlights included a welcome at the Admissions Office, a Mainely Physics […]
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Nancy R. Curtis, librarian in the Science and Engineering Center at Fogler Library on the University of Maine campus, has received the 2013 Eleanor C. Cairns Distinguished Librarian Award from the Maine Health Science Libraries and Information Consortium (HSLIC). The annual award, which was created in 1996, recognizes “excellence and achievement in contributions to HSLIC, […]
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University of Maine community members are invited to a presentation by Lucille Zeph, associate provost and dean of Division of Lifelong Learning candidate. The presentation, “Division of Lifelong Learning: Challenges and Opportunities,” will take place 1:30–2:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 4 in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union. A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation. […]
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Dennis “Red” Gendron, who has won two NCAA Hockey National Championships and an NHL Stanley Cup as an assistant coach, has been named University of Maine head men’s ice hockey coach by UMaine President Paul Ferguson and Director of Athletics Steve Abbott. Gendron’s first college hockey coaching experience was with the Black Bears, where he […]
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A Bates College sociology professor will discuss factors that can lead adults to reinforce gender stereotypes during a presentation Thursday, June 6, at 7 p.m. at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Speaker Emily Kane is author of The Gender Trap, which explores how adults can unintentionally reinforce traditional roles and expectations. The […]
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