Contact: Pauleena MacDougall, 581-1848 ORONO — The first of three lectures in the Edward D. “Sandy” Ives Memorial Lecture Series: On Humanities and Place is scheduled Monday, Oct. 4 in the Memorial Union with speaker Donna Cassidy, writer and professor of American and New England studies and art history at the University of Southern Maine. […]
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Contact: George Markowsky, 581-3940 ORONO — George Markowsky, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, recently was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from The Research Council of Ternopil National Economic University in the Ukraine for his work during a recent sabbatical there. He helped the university win a NATO grant enabling the installation […]
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Contact: Collins Center for the Arts Box Office, 581-1755 Eight of UMaine’s School of Performing Arts music faculty or adjunct faculty members will perform a Cadenzato faculty recital Sunday, Sept. 26 at 2 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall. Musicians include Karen Pendleton, Phillip Silver, Beth Wiemann, Noreen Silver, Anatole Wieck, Marcia […]
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Comments from Amy Fried of the UMaine political science faculty are included in a Friday Bangor Daily News story about the growing popularity of absentee voting among the Maine electorate. Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap estimates that Maine absentee voting could reach 30 percent for the November election.
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Television stations WABI and WLBZ/WCSH broadcast Thursday reports about a bridge construction project in Belfast. The Perkins Bridge is being replaced using bridge-in-a-backpack technology developed at UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center.
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine will host a series of public forums featuring Maine’s five gubernatorial candidates on Tuesday Oct. 5. Each candidate will appear individually in Wells Conference Center for a 45-minute session during which they will answer a series of questions posed by moderator John Rebar, […]
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The Bangor Daily News features a UMaine blacksmith workshop, taught by guest artisan Robert Adams and under the leadership of UMaine associate adjunct professor of sculpture Greg Ondo. Students are working this year on a new $740 forge purchased with stimulus money allotted to the sculpture department. Student Garrett White told the BDN the presence […]
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The ongoing Belfast bridge project using technology developed by UMaine’s AEWC Advanced Structures and Composites Center is highlighted in a Bangor Daily News story. The bridge-in-a-backpack technology has also been used in Pittsfield, Anson and Hermon.
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Down East Magazine’s Al Diamon focuses his column “Maine Humor” on the discovery made by UMaine researchers that the needles of some conifer trees contain high levels of an acid that is a key ingredient of anti-flu drugs.
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Fox Sports Maine 97.1, the flagship station for the Black Bear Sports Network, will broadcast a Maine hockey pre-season special Saturday night Sept. 25 from 5-5:30 p.m. Fox Sports Maine’s Jon Shields will host the program, a commercial-free conversation with Black Bear head coach Tim Whitehead. They will talk about the upcoming season, the Maine […]
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