The University of Maine Page Farm and Home Museum has planned its annual “Ye Olde Holiday Shoppe” from 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1. The free public event provides nearly two dozen Maine crafters and artisans a venue for displaying and selling their unique products, including woven rugs, reproduction 19th century toys, hand-wrapped wreaths, handcrafted […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on a new program, led by the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development, to train high school students in Maine as peer counselors to help identify problems resulting from depression, bullying and drug use. Contact: George Manlove, 207.581.3756
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The University of Maine Museum of Art, 40 Harlow St., Bangor is inviting the public to a free informal gallery talk with museum educator Eva Wagner at 12 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 5. Wagner will discuss the current exhibit by Susan Jane Belton, “What’s Yours?” and several selections from the permanent collection. For additional information or […]
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The University of Maine will open its Senior Art Exhibition, “ThinkMake,” with a reception from 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7 at the Lord Hall Gallery. The show runs until Jan. 25, displaying paintings, sculpture, photography, digital and other artwork created by 15 UMaine studio art majors graduating in December or in the spring. Student […]
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The Xi Sigma Pi forestry honor society is selling locally grown, hand-sheared fraser and balsam fir holiday trees to benefit scholarship funds for University of Maine forestry undergraduates 3–5 p.m., Nov. 26–Nov. 30, from 8 a.m.–4 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, and 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 2 in front of Nutting Hall. Trees are from […]
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A new permanent exhibit at the Maine State Archives in Augusta has its roots in the Ph.D. research of a recent University of Maine alumnus and newly appointed assistant professor. Ethnohistorian Micah Pawling is the guest curator of “Choosing Survival: Wabanaki Documents at the Maine State Archives.” The exhibit features 18th- and 19th-century Wabanaki documents […]
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UMaine students and employees step up to help others in need this holiday season.
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UMaine lab contributing to newest discoveries about lethal fungus decimating amphibian populations worldwide.
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Prehistoric ear stones of Pacific cod reveal fluctuations in ocean temperatures during the Little Ice Age.
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University of Maine professor of political science Amy Fried discussed in her Bangor Daily News blog Pollways her recent trip to Montenegro as a guest consultant invited by the United States Embassy there to explain the American electoral system during recent presidential elections. Contact: George Manlove, 207.581.3756
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