Campus Announcements

UMaine Dining Offering Faculty, Staff Appreciation Discounts

University of Maine Dining is introducing a weekly faculty and staff appreciation discount on food and beverages at the Bear’s Den pub and café in the Memorial Union, according to Jodi Munster, assistant dining service manager. On Wednesdays between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., a featured menu item will be offered at a 20 percent […]

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UMaine Offering 500 Free Student Tickets for Playoff Game

The University of Maine is offering a free ticket to the first 500 UMaine students at Sunday’s America East conference women’s soccer semifinal game between UMaine and Stony Brook. The game starts at 1 p.m. Regular admission is $8 for adults, $5 for youth 14 and under, and $2 for America East students with a […]

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Soccer Player Named Conference Rookie of the Year

The America East conference on Wednesday named University of Maine women’s soccer player Charlene Achille of Longueuil, Quebec, its 2012 Rookie of the Year. The first-year forward started all 16 regular-season games for the Black Bears, playing 1,426 minutes over the course of the 2012–2013 campaign. Achille tallied seven points on two goals and three […]

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Astumian Wins International Physics Award

The California-based Foresight Institute, a think tank and public interest organization focused on transformative future technologies, has awarded University of Maine professor of physics Raymond Dean Astumian the 2011 Feynman Prize for Theory. Astumian is being honored for his contributions to the understanding of Brownian motion and its role in powering molecular motors and other […]

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President’s Community Conversation 2.0 Scheduled for Monday

On Monday, Oct. 29, University of Maine President Paul Ferguson will hold Community Conversation 2.0, his second annual discussion with the UMaine community. The President’s Community Conversation 2.0 will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. in Wells Conference Center. This year, the President’s Community Conversation is being combined with the annual Employee Breakfast. […]

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UMaine CCIDS Presenting 20th Anniversary Lecture, Celebration

The University of Maine Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies (CCIDS) is celebrating its 20th Anniversary on Thursday, Nov. 1 at Buchanan Alumni House. The celebration begins at 2:30 p.m. and is open to the public. Stephen T. Murphy, Ph.D., author of “Voices of Pineland: Eugenics, Social Reform, and the Legacy of ‘Feeblemindedness’ in […]

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Ecologist Featured in National Geographic Video

Rhian Waller, a deep-sea and polar ecologist at the University of Maine who studies deep-sea corals, was featured in a video on the website of the National Geographic Society, which helped fund Waller’s recent research trip to Chile. Waller discussed the phenomenon of deep-water emergence, or areas where animals normally found at deep-sea depths are […]

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Earth Scientist Gerbi Named Kavli Fellow

University of Maine School of Earth and Climate Sciences associate professor Christopher Gerbi has been selected a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. He participated in the 2012 Chinese-American Symposium, which was held Oct. 12–14 in Irvine, Calif., and will serve as an organizer of the 2014 Chinese-American Symposium to be held in […]

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UMaine Representatives Invited to Discuss Bond Issues at Chamber Event

University of Maine Cooperative Extension Executive Director John Rebar and UMaine economist Todd Gabe will be part of a Bangor Region Chamber of Commerce Early Bird Breakfast panel discussion Wednesday morning about bond issues and the upcoming election. Bond Question 2 includes funding for a proposed animal, plant and insect diagnostic laboratory at UMaine along […]

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SPA Presenting Women Composers Program Oct. 24

The University of Maine School of Performing Arts is presenting an evening of performance featuring the works of celebrated and lesser-known women composers at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 24 in Minsky Recital Hall in Class of 1944 Hall. Works by Hildegard of Bingen, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, UMaine professor of music Beth Wiemann, Ellinor Peterson, Madeleine […]

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