UMaine News

Contact: Patty Henner, 591-4100, Howard Segal, 581-1920 ORONO – How Henry Ford created a new model of small-scale industrial production, designed in part to help part time farmers in rural Michigan, is the subject of a lecture by UMaine history professor and author Howard Segal at 7 p.m., Oct. 27 at the Page Farm and […]

Contact: Amos Orcutt, University of Maine Foundation, 207-581-5100 ORONO, Me. — The University of Maine Foundation will present the first President Abram W. Harris Award to the “Faculty Five”: George Jacobson, Stephen Norton, George Markowsky, Malcolm Hunter and David Smith at the Foundation’s Annual Meeting Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005 at Wells Commons. A $5,000 prize […]

Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli 207.561.3352 kj@umit.maine.edu The University of Maine Museum of Art presents two new exhibitions. Bangor, Maine – Two exhibitions open the fall season at the University of Maine Museum of Art. No Two Alike … focuses on quilts created between the 1960s through the 1990s and based on the “Square-in-a-Square” pattern. Created and […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Me. — Chief Noel March, director of public safety at the University of Maine, has been chosen as one of 30 law enforcement executives from across the country to participate in the National Law Enforcement Leadership Institute on Violence Against women hosted by the International Association of Chiefs […]

Contact: Alan Davenport, 581-1341 Title: AstroFest 2005 Event Date & Time: October 8, 2005 – 2PM-11PM Sponsor: University of Maine Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium and Penobscot Valley Star Gazers Audience: Families, General Public Admission: FREE Location: Wingate Hall University of Maine ORONO — ASTROFEST 2005, a free event presented by the University of Maine’s Maynard […]

Contact: Howard Segal, (207) 581-1920; Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571 (Ed. note: Toward the end of this article, author Howard Segal briefly addresses how Henry Ford’s concept of decentralized “village industries” – autonomous components of a much larger entity – could apply to economic development in Maine, New England and similar regions. He is available to […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — A workshop to help educators at all levels explore the intersection of life and work is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 4, in Poland, Maine. Led by Richard Ackerman, University of Maine associate professor of Educational Leadership, the daylong teacher formation session is for teachers and others working […]

Contact: Paige Lilly, 581-2665; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Maine favorite son Bill Cohen, former U.S. Senator, Congressman and Secretary of Defense warned the nation more than 15 years ago about a self-indulgent energy policy that had all but forgotten lessons from the energy crisis of the mid-1970s. His words are as relevant today as […]

Contact: Kay Hyatt, (207) 581-2761 Writing is crucial and enriches all fields of academic instruction. That’s the point that widely recognized teacher and author Patricia Lambert Stock will promote and demonstrate to University of Maine faculty during a writing-across-the-curriculum workshop on Friday, Oct. 21.Stock, professor of writing, rhetoric and American cultures at Michigan State University […]

Contact: Laura Sebastianelli, Adult Program Coordinator, 207-789- 5808; Tanglewood 4-H Camp and Learning CenterOne Tanglewood Road, Lincolnville, Maine 04849 CAMDEN, ME. — Eco-philosopher and activist Joanna Macy will speak at the Camden Opera House on Thursday, Oct. 13 at 7 p.m. A scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology, Macy will talk about […]