Contact: Joe Carr (joecarr@maine.edu) ORONO — One of the new features at the University of Maine’s renovated Collins Center for the Arts is a state-of-the-art digital film projector, enabling the presentations of features and documentaries that would otherwise not be available to film enthusiasts in this region. A series of six Thursday night films is […]
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Contact: Joe Carr (joecarr@maine.edu) ORONO — The University of Maine Division of Student Affairs and Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism will collect non-perishable food donations on Friday, Sept. 11 at Memorial Union. “Instead of focusing on the tragedy that occurred in 2001, we want to celebrate the way our community joined forces and supported […]
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Contact: Joe Carr (joecarr@maine.edu) ORONO — Severin Beliveau, a Portland attorney and an influential leader in Maine’s Franco-American community, will present a University of Maine Distinguished Presidential Lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 15. The talk, “Maine’s French Reality,” is scheduled for 4 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall. “We welcome the opportunity to hear Severin Beliveau share […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine will observe Constitution Day with a Thursday, Sept. 17 lecture by Prof. Patrick Rael from the Bowdoin College history faculty. Rael, a specialist in Arfican-American history, will discuss “What the Fathers Founded: The Constitution, Slavery, and Resistance before the Civil War.” The lecture, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine Office of Multicultural Programs will present its first annual Harambé Jazz Festival in the Dunn Hall parking lot, across from Wells Conference Center, on Saturday Sept. 5. The event is scheduled for 12 noon-4 p.m. Using music as a cultural bridge, the festival […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 joecarr@maine.edu ORONO — Approximately 700 University of Maine students, faculty members, staff members and others turned out today to welcome the university’s new first-year students, the Class of 2013. The backbone of UMaine’s traditional “Maine Hello” program, those volunteers met the new students and their families as they arrived […]
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Contact: Ann Schonberger or Mazie Hough, (207) 581-1228 ORONO — The Fall 2009 Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies Program lunch series gets under way Sept. 15, with noon presentations on feminist topics by UMaine faculty, graduate students and guest speakers. The series includes lectures, panel discussions, and films on topics such as North […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Celebration of Darwin class and lecture series begins on Monday, Aug. 31 with a talk by UMaine psychology professor Larry Smith, who will discuss Charles Darwin’s contributions in their historical context. Each class meeting in the semester-long series is also open to members […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A new shuttle service will enhance travel between the University of Maine and downtown Orono, providing greater access to Orono business for UMaine students while making it easier for town residents and others to visit UMaine for sporting events and other activities. The “Black Bear Orono Express” […]
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Contact: Amos E. Orcutt University of Maine Foundation President/CEO (207) 581-5100 ORONO — News of the University of Maine Foundation’s 75th Anniversary Matching Gift Scholarship program came just in time for UMaine alumni Mike and Ellen Flaherty of Huntsville, Alabama. They had been thinking of establishing scholarship funds in memory of Mike Flaherty’s father, Virgil […]
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