James Stephen Bost, longtime professor of speech and director of theater at the University of Maine, died Sept. 28, 2012, at his home in Santa Fe, N.M., according to his obituary in the Bangor Daily News. Born in Greenville, Ill., Bost moved to Maine in 1961 and taught for 26 years at UMaine, where he […]
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University of Maine football standout Brian Harvey has been named a semi-finalist for the National Football Foundation’s William V. Campbell Trophy, given to college football’s best scholar-athlete, and also was named a candidate for the organization’s National Scholar-Athlete Awards. A senior place-kicker from Wayland, Mass., Harvey’s 39-yard field goal in overtime beat New Hampshire in […]
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The 2nd Engineering Group EXPO, which will provide an opportunity for first-year and other students in the University of Maine College of Engineering to meet representatives from 16 engineering clubs, societies or teams at UMaine, will be held from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Monday in the University of Maine’s Cloke Plaza. The event includes […]
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Edwin Guarin, a senior academic developer evangelist for Microsoft in New England will be on the UMaine campus Friday for a variety of presentations. All presentations will be held in Neville Hall, room 120 (room changes due to high attendance will be posted on the door of 120 Neville). Guarin will offer from 1 p.m. […]
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The University of Maine will conduct a full-scale emergency communications system test on Thursday, Sept. 27. Outdoor sirens, which represent an integral part of the system, will sound for several minutes shortly after 2:15 p.m. Those sirens are audible throughout the UMaine campus and, under certain conditions, in parts of the surrounding communities. UMaine created […]
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The University of Maine Intermedia MFA Program is presenting the first event in its Fall Visiting Lecture Series on Tuesday, Oct. 2. All of the presentations begin at 7 p.m. in Lord Hall and are free and open to the public. On Oct. 2, Jae Rhim Lee, a research fellow in the MIT Program in […]
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The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine will honor Dana Connors, president of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, as a Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow on Thursday, Sept. 27. At 2 p.m., Connors will lead a seminar, “The Role of a State Chamber in Economic Development: Examples from Maine,” in the […]
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Esperanza Stancioff, climate change educator for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension/Maine Sea Grant, and Beth Bisson, assistant director for outreach and education for Maine Sea Grant, recently presented at the 2012 International Phenology Conference at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The presentation, “Signs of the Seasons: A Maine Phenology Program — Linking Research, Climate […]
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Three new episodes in the “Sustainable Maine” series will premiere beginning on Sept. 27 and in the coming weeks on the Maine Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN). The Season 2 episodes are part of a continuing partnership between Maine EPSCoR at the University of Maine and MPBN. The series takes a look at Maine’s involvement in […]
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G.I. Jobs has again named the University of Maine to its annual list of military-friendly schools, a listing that ranks colleges and universities on services and assistance provided to members or veterans of military service. Designated institutions are defined as those in the top 15 percent of schools nationwide that deliver the best experience for […]
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