Contact: Alan Davenport, 581-1341 ORONO — Like the Native Americans at the first Thanksgiving feast, some people today may think they have very strange guests coming to dinner when they see lights in the November sky. Two brilliant lights will grace the southwest sky after sunset this month, and they are moving like planets should […]
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Contact: Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 A University of Maine student in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is one of 22 students in the country who were selected to receive a Greater Research Opportunities fellowship from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Jamie Young of Portland received one of only two awards granted in New England […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — In what may be an unprecedented coalescence of volunteer groups at the University of Maine, students and employees have been responding to an unusually tight economy by raising money, collecting food and gifts and volunteering time on behalf of area families stressed by tough economic conditions. Dozens of organizations […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum will hold its annual Holiday Shoppe craft fair Saturday, Dec. 6, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Just in time for the holiday season, the old-fashioned shoppe brings together Maine crafters and artisans to display and offer their unique goods for sale. […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The Maine Folklife Center will feature Maria Agozzino from Ohio State University on Wednesday, November 12 at noon in the F.F.A. Room in Memorial Union. Her lecture, “Divining King Arthur: The Calendric Significance of Twelfth Century Cathedral Depictions in Italy,” is a Marshall Dodge Lecture. The legendary […]
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Contact: Rob Goodwin, 518-578-6235; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine’s student-led Green Team is organizing “Energy Action Day” on Friday, Nov. 14, in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union, featuring a lecture, exhibits, discussions, food and entertainment. The event is free and open to the public. The day’s activities are being organized to connect […]
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Contact: Barbara Murphy, University of Maine Cooperative Extension, (800) 287-1482 The tallies are in, and the University of Maine Cooperative Extension has collected 80,748 pounds of produce, 70 dozen ears of corn and 60 loaves of bread as part of its Plant a Row for the Hungry outreach project. Home gardeners, Master Gardeners and others […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; Kelly Pearson at (207) 973-7740 ORONO– The University of Maine has informed Eastern Maine Medical Center that it has chosen the Bangor-based medical provider’s subsidiary Norumbega Medical Specialists LTD to take over operations of its on-campus Cutler Health Center facility. UMaine chose EMMC/Norumbega from three bidders at the end […]
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Contact: Ann Schonberger, 581-1229 Note: Kaye/Kantrowitz is with a slash rather than a hyphen. Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, an influential writer, poet, activist, scholar and teacher, will deliver the Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Justice Memorial Lecture at the University of Maine. Kaye/Kantrowitz’s lecture, titled “To Be a Radical Jew in the 21stCentury,” will take place at […]
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Contact: Gregory Zaro, 581-1857 BANGOR — The Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine will present a monthly lecture series, “Climate Change on Planet Earth,” at the Bangor Public Library. The inaugural lecture by Paul Mayewski, director and professor at the Climate Change Institute, is titled “Climate Change: Perspectives, Surprises, Opportunities.” It will take […]
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