The University of Maine Department of Art will present starting May 24 two new exhibits at the Lord Hall Gallery. “Art of the 80s,” which represents a wide spectrum of American art created in the 1980s, will feature works from the University of Maine Museum of Art Collection. “Structures” features works by Matt R. Foster, […]
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Howard Segal, professor of history at the University of Maine, recently published a new book, “Utopias, A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities,” with publishers at Wiley-Blackwell. The book complements his earlier publications on utopia and utopianism, “Technological Utopianism in American Culture,” written in 1985 and revised in 2005, by now delving into […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension has posted online the May 2012 issue of Maine Home Garden News. Articles are written by UMaine Extension specialists, educators, and horticulture professionals, as well as master gardener volunteers in Maine. Topics, including how-to videos, cover gardening preparations best suited for May, garden planning, composting, soil temperatures, garden placement […]
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The University of Maine will hold its annual Clean Sweep Sale on from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, May 18 and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 19 at Estabrooke Hall. Items being sold were donated by students who moved out in early May or by the university. Items for sale include twin beds, dressers, […]
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Carol Bankart Gilmore, 71, retired professor of business management at the University of Maine and owner of Windrift Farm in Charleston, passed away on May 9, 2012. She suffered a stroke, according to her obituary in the Bangor Daily News. Gilmore was born Dec. 18, 1940. She taught at UMaine from 1977 until the end […]
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More than 40 members of the University of Maine Singers choral ensemble are on their way to Switzerland, Italy and Austria for a weeklong European concert tour. The singers, who raised the money themselves for the tour, will serve as musical ambassadors for the University of Maine throughout Europe. The University Singers is a select […]
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The Classified Employees Advisory Council and the Professional Employees Advisory Council have announced the University of Maine’s outstanding employees of the year.
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The University of Maine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center will host a conference on Monday, May 14, to give female faculty in engineering, mathematics, technology and the physical, biological, natural and social sciences an opportunity to meet and discuss strategies to support professional achievement.
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The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center the LEED Gold certification for its newly constructed Offshore Wind Laboratory. This is the first LEED Gold-certified building on the UMaine campus.
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Nationally known children’s book author and illustrator Gail Gibbons recently received the first annual Correll Book Award for Excellence in Early Childhood Informational Text, a new national award created through the University of Maine’s College of Education and Human Development.
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