Contact: Joe Carr at 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine students leaving campus for Thanksgiving travel on Friday Nov. 17 will encounter police officers and fellow students at “Safety Education Stops,” designed to provide safety information and first aid kits to student motorists. Data show that Thanksgiving break is a period of time that traditionally […]
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Contact: Peter Fandel, 581-1988; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — U.S. Navy Admiral Gregory G. Johnson, retired commander in chief of Allied Forces, Southern Europe, and commander of U.S. Forces, Europe, will be at the University of Maine on Nov. 27 for a luncheon lecture on “Lessons of Bosnia and Other Conflicts.” Johnson will speak from […]
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Contact: Maj. James C. Moreno, enrollment officer, University of Maine Army ROTC, Room 114, Armory, Orono, Maine 04469, 207-581-1125 ORONO — Family, friends and members of the University of Maine’s Army ROTC Department remembered one of their own in a quiet ceremony Nov. 10 in the Memorial Union. A shadow box displaying the uniform of […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Members of the UMaine Muslim Student Association have scheduled a series of talks and events on the Orono campus this week in hopes of introducing the public to the culture of Islam, as opposed to the politics. A short film, food, live music and lectures are designed to raise […]
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Contact: Curvin Farnham, 581-1254; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The 66-member University of Maine Symphonic Band and the Bangor Symphony Youth Symphonic Band, with more than 35 student musicians, will team up Nov. 20 for their annual concert at the Maine Center for the Arts. The youth Symphonic Band will open the program at 7:30 […]
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Contact: Nancy Boyington, (207) 338-8002 BELFAST — The University of Maine Hutchinson Center will celebrate two important events on Friday, Nov. 17, with a 4-6 p.m. public reception. UMaine Prof. Alan Stubbs will present his award-winning digital art work “Illusions” to the university as a gift. Stubbs, a member of both art and psychology faculty […]
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Contact: Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571 ORONO — What if new advances in technology could–for all intents and purposes–cure deafness? As society grapples with the medical procedures surrounding the cochlear implant, we begin to ask whether deafness is something to be cured, or rather an alternative way of being with its own language and culture. The […]
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Contact: Vivianne Holmes, 800-287-1458 or 207-353-5550, vholmes@umext.maine.edu ORONO, ME–Working with forestry professionals, working a woodlot, and cost-share programs will be the topics at the upcoming Women and the Woods program
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Contact: Liz Stanley, 1-800-244-2104 x 123 (in Maine), lstanley@umext.maine.edu WISCASSET, Me. — University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Master Gardener project at the Morris Farm Trust in Wiscasset has received a generous anonymous donation of $5,000. The trust is a working organic farm that serves as an educational resource for surrounding communities. The Master Gardener project […]
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Contact: Bill Murphy, 581- 4124George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The Bureau of Labor Education at the University of Maine has received a $120,000 Susan Harwood Training Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to create a series of safety programs for Maine construction workers. In construction work, both […]
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