The University of Maine’s ninth annual International Dance Festival, showcasing an array of traditional music, dance and costumes of some of the 400 international students at UMaine, is set for Saturday, Feb. 16, at the Collins Center for the Arts. Two free performances of dances from around the world are scheduled at 2 p.m. and […]
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Defense policy adviser and author Michael Pillsbury, an authority on China, will discuss “A China Policy for the United States” at 4 p.m., Feb. 4 in 107 D.P. Corbett Business Building. The free public talk is presented by the University of Maine School of Policy and International Affairs. Pillsbury, author of China Debates the Future […]
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The political ramifications and consequences of a world mired in debt is the subject of a free public discussion at 2:10 p.m., Monday, Jan. 28 at the University of Maine by John Mahon, the John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy and professor of management in the Maine Business School at UMaine. […]
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The University of Maine Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism, Multicultural Student Affairs, V.E.T.S. and the Department of Athletics will host a Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service from noon–3:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 21 at the Old Town/Orono YMCA. Students in grades 3–6 from all communities are invited to attend the free event. Children […]
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University of Maine Museum of Art (UMMA) Director and Curator George Kinghorn has been named a juror for the 43rd annual Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, March 2–3 at the Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in Tampa, Fla. Artists participating in the prestigious festival will compete for $74,500 in cash awards, including the $15,000 […]
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As many as 1,000 University of Maine students and more than 103 businesses, firms and organizations are preparing for the 2013 Career Fair from 10 a.m.–3 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 30 at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. Coordinated this year by the UMaine Career Center and the School of Forest Resources, the annual event connects […]
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More than 130 Maine high school students will be on campus Jan. 9 for the spring orientation of Academ-e, the University of Maine’s for-credit distance education program for high school juniors and seniors administered by the Division of Lifelong Learning. High school principals, guidance counselors and teachers nominate students to participate in Academ-e. The students […]
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Beach Night Money Madness will be the theme at the Harold Alfond Sports Arena Tuesday, Jan. 22, when the UMaine men’s basketball team takes on Vermont at 7 p.m. A $500 prize will be awarded to the best-dressed beach-attired fan, in addition to other runners-up awards. The first 500 UMaine students will receive free Black […]
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The Coastal and Marine Mercury Ecosystem Research Collaborative (C-MERC), led by the Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program at Dartmouth College with support from the Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine, has released a report, “Sources to Seafood: Mercury Pollution in the Marine Environment,” focusing on the pathways and consequences of mercury […]
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Feb. 22 is the deadline for preliminary proposals for Maine Sea Grant College Program research projects to be funded from February 2014 through January 2016. Through biennial request for proposals, Maine Sea Grant strives to sponsor a diverse research portfolio that links the scientific capacity of Maine with the needs of coastal stakeholders. More information […]
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