University of Maine students and basketball fans are invited to participate in a “Shoot, Slam and Shuffle” event with UMaine basketball players at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 12, at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. “Knockout for a Cause,” is organized by the Theta Chi fraternity as a fundraiser for Spruce Run, a nonprofit […]
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Three new University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) exhibits open to the public Friday, Oct. 5, for the fall season. Exhibits include “Alan Bray: At the Edges,” which features more than 20 works by one of Maine’s most respected contemporary landscape painters; “Mayumi Sarai: Ring Cycle,” a display of floor-based and hanging sculptures; and […]
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The University of Maine and ESTIA, a nonprofit and nongovernmental organization based in Maine dedicated to the protection of cultural and biological diversity, will host the 9th Annual ESTIA Conference on “Slow Food: A Model for Sustainable and Healthy Living.” Interest in the concept of Slow Food has grown in recent years as more people […]
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Owen F. Smith, director of the Intermedia MFA program at the University of Maine, will participate in a panel Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the Maine College of Art in Portland on Intermedia as part of discussion sponsored by Portland Ovations. Titled “Post-Performance Lecture: Inter-media Panel Discussion,” the discussion […]
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson attended the 13th annual National Outreach Scholarship Conference at the University of Alabama, which was held Oct. 1–2, and served on the judges’ panel for the 2012 C. Peter Magrath University Community Engagement Award sponsored by the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (APLU). Established in 2006 with […]
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Retired Central Intelligence Agency specialist Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow in the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, will discuss Osama bin Laden and the future of al Qaeda in a lecture at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17 at the Buchanan Alumni House at the University of Maine. Sponsored by the […]
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More than 700 students and teachers from 15 middle and elementary schools throughout northern and central Maine will convene on Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the University of Maine campus for the 10th biennial Northern Maine Children’s Water Festival. The festival is a fun-filled way for students to learn about the value of clean water and […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension will celebrate the fifth annual 4-H National Youth Science Days (NYSD) in October and November with a series of events designed to spark youth interest in science and future science careers. As part of 4-H NYSD, youngsters will participate in the 4-H Eco-Bot Challenge, a 2012 National Science Experiment in […]
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The University of Maine Intermedia MFA program will present A Tribute to John Cage, free film screenings dedicated to the music and creative legacy of American composer John Cage. The screenings are scheduled at 7 p.m. in 100 Lord Hall in October and November. The film series is part of an international celebration of the […]
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Bess Koffman, a University of Maine Ph.D. student who works with Karl Kreutz, a UMaine professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and the Climate Change Institute, recently won the “Lights, Camera, Science” student video contest sponsored by the American Geophysical Union. Koffman and Thomas Bauska of Oregon State, who made the 4 […]
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