Contact: Kay Hyatt at(207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine Future Teachers’ Academy is looking for a few Maine high school students who are passionate about mathematics and science and interested in teaching. The free academy takes place June 26-July1 on the UMaine campus. Sponsored by the UMaine College of Education and Human […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt at (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Elizabeth Allan, assistant professor of Educational Leadership, was honored recently by the American Educational Research Association for her article “Constructing Women’s Status: Policy Discourses of University Women’s Commissions.” Allan is one of two recipients to receive the 2005 Outstanding Publication Award. The awards were announced April […]
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Contact: Joe Carr, University of Maine Dept. of Public Affairs and Marketing, 207-581-3571 ORONO, Maine ‘ University of Maine ice sheet research got a boost this week with the announcement of a new multi-institution science and technology center at the University of Kansas. Two UMaine faculty members ‘ Terry Hughes of the Dept. of Earth […]
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Contact: Lisa Acquaviva at (207) 581-7766 ORONO, Me. — The University of Maine’s Delta Nu chapter of Alpha Phi (pronounced “fee”) will host its 3rd annual Move Your Phi’t event on Sunday, April 17. Proceeds will benefit charitable projects of the Alpha Phi Foundation, Inc. Move Your Phi’t is a 5krun/walk for cardiac care, beginning […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — When University of Maine Business Administration and Accounting major Nathan Holmes began his senior year last fall, he never dreamed he would do his internship in a public school system. Thanks to an innovative collaboration between UMaine and eight area school systems, more undergraduate and graduate students […]
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Contact: Samantha Foster, Maine Animal Club, (207) 581-7818 ORONO, Maine — The Maine Animal Club is sponsoring its 23rd annual Orono Royal on April 30 at the University of Maine’s J. F. Witter Teaching and Research Center off College Avenue. The public is welcome to attend the livestock show that starts at 9 a.m. and […]
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Contact: Page Farm & Home Museum, 581-4100, George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Tatting, knitting and sewing are the focus of discussion and a demonstration at a brown bag lunch April 27 at the UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum. Hampden resident Viola Miller is the featured speaker. She has taught tatting, knitting and sewing for […]
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Contact: Karen Cole, (207) 581-4704, George Manlove (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Concert Band and Symphonic Band will perform Sunday, April 17 in Hutchins Concert Hall in the Maine Center for the Arts. The roughly 65-member concert band will open the program at 7:30 p.m. The symphonic band, with 61 musicians, will perform second, […]
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Contact: Lisa K. Neuman, (207) 581-4489, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The intriguing story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian who was a living exhibit in a California museum for several years before he died in 1916, is the subject of a lecture Monday, April 18 in the Bodwell Lounge at the Maine Center […]
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Contact: Nancy Ogle, (207) 581-1255, Leisa Preble, (207) 581-1016, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Music and science will meld April 14, as a California musician, composer and physicist is scheduled to deliver an inspiring combination performance-lecture at Minsky Recital Hall in the Class of 1944 Hall. Brian Holmes, professor of physics at San Jose […]
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