UMaine News

Contact: Karen Cashman, (207) 973-6164. (Bar Harbor, Maine) September 14 -15, 80 Maine scientists, researchers, and students gathered at the Mount Desert Biological Laboratories to discuss the most leading issues in neurogenetics that affect the health of Maine people.  The conference, hosted by the Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health, supports the institute’s mission […]

Contact: Dee Potter, 207-834-3905 FAIRFIELD, ME–The Maine Grass Farmers Network (MGFN), a cooperative effort of University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association (MOFGA), will hold its fourth annual grazing conference on Saturday, Sept. 29 at Kennebec Valley Community College in Fairfield. Registration begins at 9:15 a.m. and the conference […]

Contact: Karen Cole: 581-4704; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s School of Performing Arts has announced a fall schedule for music, dance and theatrical performances by UMaine faculty members and special guests. Performances are in Minsky Recital Hall unless otherwise noted. Admission is $6 and students with a MaineCard are admitted free. […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine has scheduled at Tuesday, Sept. 25 10:30 a.m. event to announce the largest gift it has ever received. Left to UMaine in the will of a graduate who died earlier this year, the gift will provide significant, long-term support for the UMaine School […]

Contact: Liam Riordan, 581-1913; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The history of the slave ship as a floating dungeon is the topic of this year’s Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture at UMaine on Thursday, Oct. 11. The annual lecture is held in memory of Howard Schonberger, a UMaine professor of history from […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine audiologist Amy Booth has spent her career providing hearing services to underserved populations in this country and around the globe. Now, she is going to China as a member of an international team of health professionals providing audiology screenings and hearing aid assessments to […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 BANGOR — Deepti Choubey, deputy director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Nonproliferation Program, will deliver the Bangor Foreign Policy Forum’s next talk, Monday, Sept. 24. The presentation is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. in Bangor Public Library’s second floor lecture room. She will discuss U.S.-India relations, the pending […]

Contact: Bob Potts, Advisor, Senior Skull Society, (207) 581-1149 or 1-800-934-2586Samantha Lott, Advisor, All Maine Women, (207) 989-7474 Orono, ME – The Senior Skull and All Maine Women Honor Societies at the University of Maine in Orono is pleased to announce the members of the Class of 2008. The Senior Skull Society was founded in […]

Contact: Kathryn Hunt, (207) 581-1553 The University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and Center for Teaching Excellence, in partnership with Maine Campus Compact, are inviting educators, policy-makers and members of the public to a day-long conference, “Strengthening Universities and Communities through Engagement,” Sept. 26 at the Morgan Hill Event Center in Hermon. The […]

Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — Spinners and other fiber artists are invited to celebrate National Spinning and Weaving Week at two events upcoming events, at the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum in Orono and Leonard’s Mills logging museum in Bradley. A “spin-in” at the Page Farm and Home Museum will kick off the […]