Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Maine Sen. Peter Mills (R-Skowhegan) will visit the University of Maine on Tuesday, Nov. 13 as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Mills will spend the day at UMaine, meeting with students, faculty members and staff members. The Distinguished Maine […]
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Contact: Lois Berg Stack 207-581-2949 ORONO, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension has published the 2008 version of its “North Country Garden Calendar,” always a popular item for holiday gift-giving. Developed by Cooperative Extension professors Lois Berg Stack and Leonard Perry of the Universities of Maine and Vermont, respectively, this year’s calendar features 12 […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine President Robert Kennedy has authorized a $1,000 reward for information leading to the positive identification of those responsible for flipping over a car in UMaine’s Stodder Hall parking lot early Monday morning. Police believe this happened during the campus celebration of the Boston Red […]
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Contact: Harold Daniel, (207) 581-1933; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine System Center for Tourism Research and Outreach (CenTRO) is holding its annual fall conference Nov. 9 to draw together a slate of state and national tourism authorities to asses the tourism outlook for 2008. The “Outlook for Tourism in Maine: […]
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Contact: Melanie Brooks at (207) 581-1700 ORONO — After years of researching, writing, and volunteering in homeless shelters, Pat LaMarche decided to go on a 14-day trip to 14 homeless shelters across America. The result is a series of vignettes that bring each shelter and its residents to life encompassed in the book, “Left Out […]
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Contact: Sandra Hardy, 581-1966; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — “A dark play with comic moments” about the tormented life of Hedda Gabler, a young Norwegian wife born a century before her time is how Sandra Hardy, the director, describes the latest student production opening Nov. 2 at Hauck Auditorium at UMaine. “Hedda Gabler,” by Norwegian […]
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Contact: Karel Lidral, 581-1256; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine Chamber Jazz Ensemble will perform Tuesday, Nov. 6, in the Leonard and Renee Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The Chamber Jazz Ensemble, new as of the fall of 2006, is a small group of several soloists […]
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Contact: Abbe Jacobs, (207) 866-6500; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Student Innovation Center, in partnership with the National Collegiate Innovators and Inventors Alliance, is bringing the Alliance’s “Invention 2 Venture” conference to campus Nov. 9. The workshop, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at Buchanan Alumni House, will focus on […]
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Contact: Contact: Pam LaHaye, 800-287-1426 WALDO, Me. — One hundred fifty children whose parents participate in the Parents Are Teachers Too (PATT) program will gat an unexpected present this year: a brand new book of their very own to take home, each month for 12 months. PATT is celebrating Home Visiting Week (Oct. 29- Nov. […]
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Contact: BJ Kitchin, 581-1375; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Robert “BJ” Kitchin, a UMaine Ph.D student and disability studies teaching assistant, recently was named this year’s recipient of the American Public Health Association’s DisAbility Forum Student Member Award. The award is presented each year to one college student in the United States who has contributed […]
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