The University of Maine School of Performing Arts will present its annual Yuletide concert, a choral performance featuring holiday favorites, at 2 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2 at the Collins Center for the Arts. The concert fills the stage with members of six university choral ensembles performing works including standard carols like “Silent Night,” the Austrian […]
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The Center for Undergraduate Research at the University of Maine has announced the recipients of the Center for Undergraduate Research Fellowships for 2012–13. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty supervised research, and are supported through a PRE-VUE grant awarded by the UMaine President’s Office. Each fellowship provides a […]
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The University of Maine Museum of Art, 40 Harlow St., Bangor is inviting the public to a free informal gallery talk with museum educator Eva Wagner at 12 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5. Wagner will discuss the current exhibit by Susan Jane Belton, “What’s Yours?” and several selections from the permanent collection. For additional information or […]
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The University of Maine will open its Senior Art Exhibition, “ThinkMake,” with a reception from 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7 at the Lord Hall Gallery. The show runs until Jan. 25, displaying paintings, sculpture, photography, digital and other artwork created by 15 UMaine studio art majors graduating in December or in the spring. Student […]
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Ivan Manev, dean of the University of Maine College of Business, Public Policy and Health, recently made a presentation on entrepreneurship in transitional economies at a conference in Moscow. He also visited the Komi Republic Academy of Public Service and Administration in Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic. The academy is a partner institution […]
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The Xi Sigma Pi forestry honor society is selling locally grown, hand-sheared fraser and balsam fir holiday trees to benefit scholarship funds for University of Maine forestry undergraduates 3–5 p.m., Nov. 26–Nov. 30, from 8 a.m.–4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, and 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2 in front of Nutting Hall. Trees are from […]
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A new permanent exhibit at the Maine State Archives in Augusta has its roots in the Ph.D. research of a recent University of Maine alumnus and newly appointed assistant professor. Ethnohistorian Micah Pawling is the guest curator of “Choosing Survival: Wabanaki Documents at the Maine State Archives.” The exhibit features 18th- and 19th-century Wabanaki documents […]
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Kimberly Page has been named director of the University of Maine Office of Student Records, effective Dec. 1. Page has been at the University of Connecticut since 1984, most recently as associate registrar for systems and degree audit in the Office of the Registrar. Her academic career started in the College of Liberal Arts and […]
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The University of Maine Interfraternity and Panhellenic councils, in conjunction with the UMaine chapter of Lambda Chi Alpha, will hold a memorial service at 6 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 27 for the three fraternity members killed earlier this month in a plane crash at Knox County Regional Airport in Owls Head, Maine. Tuesday’s memorial service will […]
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The University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor is hosting its 5th annual “Art Factory” from 11 a.m.–4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 1, a free event for creative expression by area families. Art Factory is an opportunity for families to spend a day at the art museum at 40 Harlow St. in Bangor to […]
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