University of Maine graduate student Sarah Morehead will be the keynote speaker at a Sept. 22 event for men and women interested in learning more about money and how it affects their lives. “Fall Into Financial Fitness” will be held from 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Eastport Hall on the Bangor campus of the […]
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The University of Maine Division of Student Affairs invites members of the campus community to a memorial service from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 in the Memorial Union chapel for Shirley Ladd, a UMaine student who died this summer as a result of a fall from a ledge in Acadia National Park. […]
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David Gross, professor emeritus of English at the University of Oklahoma, has been named interim dean of the University of Maine Honors College, where he has been a part-time faculty member since 2005. Gross has been endorsed by University of Maine System Chancellor James H. Page and recommended to the Board of Trustees as interim […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension is offering a tree identification tour in Oat Nuts Park in Portland from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28. Portland city arborist Jeff Tarling will lead a tour through the park and down to the Presumpscot River Preserve. Oat Nuts Park, on Summit Street, is the gateway […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts, with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact, is offering on Wednesday, Sept. 26 a student reading of “8,” the Broadway play chronicling California’s Federal District Court trial Perry v. Schwarzenegger, now Perry v. Brown, challenging the state’s Proposition 8, a constitutional provision […]
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Kathleen P. Bell, an associate professor in the School of Economics, has received an international Sören Wibe Prize from the Swedish Journal of Forest Economics for an article she coauthored in 2011 on evaluating programs designed to protect forests from the invasive forest pest hemlock woolly adelgid. Bell and coauthors Thomas P. Holmes, a U.S. […]
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University of Maine professor of history Howard Segal was elected the New England District Senator for the Phi Beta Kappa honor society during the organization’s recent Triennial Council in Palm Beach, Fla. His term is for six years. The senate is Phi Beta Kappa’s governing body. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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The annual Bear Necessities Tent Sale will be held Thursday, Aug. 30 through Sunday, Sept. 1 in the Memorial Gym Parking Lot. The tent sale will be open 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday, 6 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. The sale will feature Black Bear apparel, including crew neck sweatshirts for $15, hoodies for […]
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Eight internationally known sculptors are putting the finishing touches on their work this week as the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS) enters its final days in the University of Maine’s Steam Plant parking lot. The site is free and open to the public daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Aug. 30, when a […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal interviewed University of Maine Cooperative Extension food preservation program aide Kate McCarty about preserving fresh garden tomatoes. McCarty discussed ways to preserve tomatoes, including making salsas with fruit or jalapeno peppers. The article included recipes for salsa and homemade tomato ketchup. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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