Contact: Karen Cole, (207) 581-4704 ORONO — The University of Maine’s School of Performing Arts has announced its spring 2008 music, performance and dance events scheduled at Minsky Recital Hall or Hauck Auditorium. Admission is $6 and UMaine students are admitted free with a MaineCard, unless otherwise noted. Exceptions may occur. For more information, please […]
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Contact: Amy Witt, 207-780-4205, awitt@umext.maine.edu PORTLAND, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the organizers of the Portland Flower Show are asking kids to respond to the question “Why should I care about plants?” in the Portland Flower Show’s second annual student essay contest. For a contest application and rules, contact the UMaine Extension […]
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Contact: Marcia Nye Boody, (207) 581-2481, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Five literacy educators from Queensland, Australia arrived in Bangor this week to learn first-hand about the work that the Maine Literacy Partnership (MLP) provides to Maine schools. The University of Maine-based partnership is a comprehensive literacy model dedicated to increasing student reading and other […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine today announced a $1.5 million gift from Bion and Dorain Foster of Hampden. The donation will provide support for programs at UMaine’s Student Innovation Center and Student Recreation and Fitness Center, along with scholarship funds through an endowment at the University of Maine […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine will host a Thursday, Jan. 10 (4:30 p.m.) event announcing a major gift in support of Campaign Maine, the university’s six-year, $150 million comprehensive fundraising campaign. A prominent Bangor-area couple, well-known in the business community, has made the gift, which will provide support […]
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Contact: Contact: Amos Orcutt, University of Maine Foundation President/CEO, 207 581-5100 ORONO — Amos Orcutt, president/CEO of the University of Maine Foundation, has announced the appointment of Daniel B. Williams as planned giving officer. Williams, who earned both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from UMaine, returns to his alma mater having accumulated a […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 BELFAST — A $200,000 Unity Foundation challenge grant will provide valuable support for the University of Maine’s planned Hutchinson Center expansion. The university announced in August a campaign to raise $2 million in private funds to help create a 15,000 square foot addition at the Belfast facility. The new […]
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Contact: Michael D. Mason (207) 581-2344; Tom Weber (207) 581-3777; Bob Caswell (207) 780-4200 ORONO — Now that NASA has cleared them for takeoff, student scientists from the University of Maine and the University of Southern Maine are eagerly preparing for the flight of their lives. And while the four students won’t actually be going […]
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Contact: Marlene Charron, (207) 581-4095, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine is accepting registrations for a unique, interdisciplinary course designed around the annual Camden Conference in February, “Religion as a Force in World Affairs.” Students do not have to be admitted at the University of Maine to enroll in the course. The […]
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Contact: Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, 581-3124 ORONO — Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, professor of clinical nutrition at UMaine, recently was elected treasurer of the International Society of Trace Element Research in the Human (ISTERH) at the society’s recent joint international conference in Crete, Greece. She will serve until 2010. Klimis-Zacas, a faculty member in the Department of Food Science […]
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