Contact: Vicky Blanchette, 581-2204/944-2695; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — For the fourth year in a row, University of Maine volunteers will plant a pink tulip garden on the UMaine campus in front of Fogler Library Wednesday, Oct. 28 at 2 p.m., to raise funds for cancer research through the Maine Cancer Foundation. In total, 30,000 […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine School of Arts will offer a reader’s theatre presentation of Peter Parnell’s “Trumpery: the Evolution of Charles Darwin’s Theory,” on Wednesday Oct. 28 at 7: 30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall. Admission is free. Charles Isherwood described the play in a December 2007 […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Maine Attorney General Janet Mills will visit the University of Maine on Thursday Oct. 29 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Mills will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members. A Farmington resident, […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 photo available upon request ORONO — The University Continuing Education Association New England has selected UMaine senior Lauren Sterling of Waterville as the Outstanding Continuing Education Student from New England. She will be honored at the UCEANE annual conference in Hyannis, Mass. on Oct. 28. An extraordinary student and public servant, […]
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Contact: Ryan Bouchard, 581-1796 ORONO — The Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism, the UMaine Touchstone Project and the Peer Education Program will host a novel “Halloween for Needs” event Oct. 30, beginning at 3 p.m. at the Orchard Trail Community Center, just off campus. Volunteers will inform students about the services of the University […]
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Contact Joe Carr (joecarr@maine.edu) ORONO — Chancellor Pattenaude and members of the University of Maine System Board of Trustees will visit UMaine on Wednesday Oct. 28 for an open forum to discuss UMaine, the University of Maine System and the future of higher education in Maine. The session is scheduled for 10:30 a.m.- noon in […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Celebration of Darwin class and lecture series continues on Wednesday Oct. 21 and Monday Oct. 26. Prof. Carol Kim will give a Wednesday talk, “Evolution of Human Response to Disease, Vaccines,” and Prof. Alan Rosenwasser will speak on Monday about “The Evolution of […]
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Contacts: Laurie Connell, (207) 581-2470; Rosemary Smith, (207) 581-3361; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 The University of Maine is one of the first to receive an international research partnership award, designed to link U.S. scientists and engineers with counterparts in Ireland. The first four tri-partite U.S.-Ireland R&D partnerships, valued at more than $10 million were announced […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — United States Attorney General Eric Holder will visit the University of Maine on Friday Oct. 23 to deliver a William S. Cohen Lecture. The talk is scheduled for 11 a.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts. Free tickets to the event are still available, on a […]
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Contact: Mazie Hough, 581-1225 ORONO — Women who have dedicated time and energy helping to support homeless children, environmental causes, men and women in healthy relationships and women in a Lewiston refugee community are among the five 2009 -2010 Maryann Hartman Award winners selected to be honored Oct. 28 by the University of Maine’s Women […]
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