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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Contacts: Jim McConnon, 581-3165 or Todd Gabe, 581-3307 ORONO — New research by University of Maine economists shows that the smallest of small businesses — micro-enterprises with up to four employees — have a significant economic impact on state and even national economies. And those very small businesses in Maine are leading New England in […]
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Contact: Joe Carr (joecarr@maine.edu) BIDDEFORD — The Maine Neurogenetics Consortium, a statewide group of neuroscientists from Maine’s biomedical institutions, will hold a day-long retreat on Saturday, Oct.. 3 in the University of New England’s Bush Center Conference Room. This event will be preceded by a Friday, Oct. 2 dinner celebrating UNE’s new Neuroscience Center. UNE […]
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Contact Debra Tenenbaum (debra@gbritt.com) Joe Carr (joecarr@maine.edu) The University of Maine is one of the festival’s co-sponsors. Its Division of Lifelong Learning offers a three-credit course in conjunction with the festival. This is a Camden International Film Festival news release. CAMDEN — The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) announced its full slate of films for the […]
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Contact: Paul Mayewski, (207) 581-3019; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 ORONO – University of Maine Climate Change Institute Director Paul Mayewski has been lauded worldwide for his work in Antarctica, the Arctic and other remote portions of the planet, and now he has been selected to receive the highest award in his field. Mayewski will be […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — UMaine’s Page Farm and Home Museum has received a $1,822.03 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to relocate, preserve and provide better access to its historical records collections. The grant comes from through the Historical Records Collections Grant Program, administered by the Maine Historical Records Advisory […]
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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’s Celebration of Darwin class and lecture series continues on Wednesday, Sept. 9 with a talk by UMaine chemistry professor on Darwin’s historical and cultural impact. There is no Monday lecture next week because of Labor Day. Each class meeting in the semester-long series […]
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