Family and Friends Weekend begins at the University of Maine on Friday Sept. 30, with a 5-7 p.m. cookout featuring live entertainment by John Rush, also known as the human iPod. Rush, who is a popular performer on college campuses around the country, is a singer-songwriter who performs a combination of his own music and […]
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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the University Bookstore, the official bookstore of the University of Maine. To commemorate the occasion, a “birthday party” will be held this Friday from 1-3 p.m. at the store, located in the lower level of the Memorial Union. Students, faculty and staff members, alumni and […]
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Bakers at the University of Maine Dining Services serve up an average of 20,000 whoopie pies, with some four different flavors, each year on campus. Not that anyone’s counting. On Wednesday, Sept. 28, the popular sandwich-size cake with a sweet frosting inside becomes the official state treat. At Hilltop Dining, chefs, cooks, bakers, staff and […]
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A group of 300 University of Maine community members and others will walk to raise money and awareness for suicide prevention on Sunday, Oct 2. The 3.5 mile walk will begin at UMaine’s Fogler Library, at 2 p.m., with registration at 1 p.m. The UMaine event is part of the Out of the Darkness Community […]
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UMaine’s club rugby team will open its season with a game against the University of Vermont Saturday at 11 a.m. on Lengyel Field. Twenty-two UMaine students play on the team, which won its only preseason game by a score of 38-5 over the University of Maine at Farmington.
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Former UMaine professor Oskar Feichtinger died on Sept. 5 at the age 77. Born in Germany, Feichtinger immigrated to the U.S. when he was a high school student, later serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and earning a Ph.D. before joining the UMaine faculty as a statistics professor. Active in the community, Feichtinger was an […]
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Eight films are scheduled for UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts, Thursday nights in the fall beginning Sept. 15. Show time is 7 p.m. with an admission charge of $6. Thursday, Sept. 15 Buck Thursday, Sept. 22 Midnight in Paris Thursday, Sept. 29 Beats, Rhymes & Life Thursday, Oct. 6 Cave of Forgotten Dreams Thursday, […]
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UMaine chemistry Ph.D. candidate James Killarney, who works with Prof. Howard Patterson in the Patterson Research group, will present his work to members of Congress and Environmental Protection Agency administrators on Capitol Hill next June. Working in the second year of a EPA STAR Fellowship, Killarney focuses on chemometric modeling of pharmaceutical contamination in water. […]
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A series of late-September University of Maine presentations, with an accompanying online discussion forum, will enhance community dialogue related to the impact of evolving communications technologies on humanities scholarship.
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University of Maine faculty members Constanza Ocampo-Raeder and Maria Sandweiss will present September lectures at Bangor Public Library. Their talks will be part of the Centro Hispano – The Hispanic Center of Bangor 2011 lecture series. That organization works to inform the community about Hispanic heritage and culture. Ocampo-Raeder, a professor in UMaine’s Dept. of […]
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