Contact: Sandra Caron, (207) 581-3138; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — UMaine’s groundbreaking peer education program, “Male Athletes Against Violence” (MAAV), has released its new poster for 2007-2008, “United Against Violence,” portraying 13 collegiate athletes in an assemblage of uniforms, each representing a National Collegiate Athletic Association sport. The poster, the fifth since the […]
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Contact: Kathleen March, (207) 581-2088 ORONO — Kathleen March, UMaine professor of Spanish, has received a Translation Grant of just more than $3,200 from the Ireland Literary Exchange to translate a book of Irish poetry into Galician, a minority language of Spain. March will translate and prepare for publication The Rose-Geranium by noted Irish poet […]
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Contact: Elizabeth DePoy, (207) 581-1469; Stephen Gilson, (207) 581-2409 ORONO — University of Maine social work and disability studies professors Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen Gilson recently published their seventh book, a textbook titled The Human Experience: Description, Explanation, and Judgment. The book is geared to a social work audience, including college students studying human behavior […]
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Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli, 207.561.3352 Bangor, Maine ‑ The University of Maine Museum of Art is pleased to present two exhibitions beginning July 13. Being Where Looking Into Landscape offers a wide variety of approaches to the ideal associated with landscape while stretching the traditional definition of what we hope a landscape is or really looks […]
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Contact: Christy Fitzpatrick, 207-532-6548 ORONO, Me. –University of Maine Cooperative Extension brought 41 Maine 4-H members aged 11-15 to campus for a UMaine experience May 19-20. Through a collaborative effort of faculty members, staff members and graduate students, participants attended activities to learn about UMaine and its many possible courses of study. For parents, there […]
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Contact: Beth Wiemann, 581-1244; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — A two-act, contemporary opera composed by UMaine School of Performing Arts Professor of Music Beth Wiemann placed fourth out of five semi-finalists in the 2007 Opera Vista Competition in Houston. Excerpts from the five selected works were presented to a live audience on June 22 and […]
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Contact: Gretchen Gfeller, Web and Public Relations Specialist, 207-581-1696 ORONO — The University of Maine has reached an agreement with BookSurge International to make available out-of-print books in Fogler Library through Amazon.com’s print-on-demand services. This partnership will allow Fogler Library to achieve partial cost recovery of its efforts to digitize books, the products of which […]
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Contact: Kyle McCaskill, 207-581-3185 ORONO, Me–The first annual National Pollinator Week, June 24-30, will promote awareness of the importance of bees, birds, bats, butterflies, beetles, and other pollinators. The pollinator garden–an evolving project–will be open at the University of Maine
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Contact: Dennis Russell, 581-4017; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Voluntary Ambulance Corps (UVAC)recently received an upgraded competency rating from a consortium ofemergency care and health organizations in Maine, recognizing the30-year-old service for its advancement. The Maine Center for Disease Control’s Cardiovascular Health Programand Maine Emergency Medical Services’ “Maine HeartSafe Communities”upgraded the […]
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Contact: Kevin Birch, 581-6941 UMaine music faculty member Kevin Birch, director of music and organistat St. John’s Roman Catholic Church, Bangor, will lecture on historicE. & G. G. Hook organs in Maine later this month at theInternational Organ Festival in Berlin, Germany. The organs were selected to illustrate key developments in organbuilding in New England […]
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