As part of its 100th anniversary celebration and Northeast college tour, L.L. Bean’s Bootmobile will visit the University of Maine on Saturday, Oct. 20 to participate in UMaine’s Homecoming parade from Orono High School to the campus. The vehicle, a 13-foot high by 20-foot long replica of the L.L. Bean iconic Maine hunting shoe, will […]
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George Kinghorn, director and curator of the University of Maine Museum of Art, is one of three nominees for a Fusion Bangor 2012 Leadership and Vision Award recognizing a Bangor-area resident who has made a positive impact on the Bangor region. Kinghorn, who also is president of the Downtown Bangor Partnership, has long supported downtown […]
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The University of Maine football team’s Homecoming game Saturday against the University of New Hampshire was featured Thursday on the NCAA website. The website noted the Black Bears and Wildcats are playing each other for the 100th time — the longest running rivalry in UNH history. The teams play annually for the Brice-Cowell Musket, named […]
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The University of Maine’s Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies Program has announced the four recipients of the 2012 Maryann Hartman Awards, an annual recognition of women whose work inspires others and raises awareness of contemporary women’s accomplishments. The awards ceremony is scheduled from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 30 at UMaine’s […]
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The Maine Edge newspaper published an advance on the University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ upcoming theatrical production, “How I Learned to Drive.” Marcia Douglas, a theatre faculty member and director of the play, told the paper the play is both touching and disturbing because of its theme and content. A campus announcement has […]
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The Bangor Daily News was among several news organizations to report the sudden cancellation of the Oct. 17 Collins Center for the Arts event “The Price Is Right – Live!” Adele Adkins, associate director of UMaine’s Collins Center, told the BDN there was a production issue that couldn’t be fixed. According to the story refunds […]
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Channel 7 (WVII) carried a report on the Oct. 17 presentation at UMaine by retired CIA strategist Bruce Riedel on the status of the United State’s progress and upcoming challenges in combating terrorism. Riedel said Saudi Arabia and Algeria are among the countries susceptible to social upheaval resulting from Arab unrest. The talk was sponsored […]
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Sarah Nelson, a researcher with the University of Maine Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research, was interviewed for an article in the upstate New York North Country Now newspaper about UMaine research in the use of dragonfly larvae as bio-sentinels for mercury in lakes and streams in the Northeast. The Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation […]
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WATERVILLE – More than 120 undergraduate animal and dairy science majors from 14 colleges throughout the Northeast U.S. and Canada will put their dairy farm knowledge to the test at the 2012 Northeast Regional Dairy Challenge Nov.1–3 at the Best Western Plus Waterville Grand Hotel. The Northeast Regional Dairy Challenge, being held in Maine for […]
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ELLSWORTH – The University of Maine Cooperative Extension is helping fuel the entrepreneurial spirit in Downeast-area business communities Nov. 1–2 with the first Hancock County Business Conference and Trade Show. Maine Gov. Paul LePage is scheduled to give a keynote address on Nov. 2. More than 100 representatives from area public- and private-sector businesses and […]
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