Contact: Jessica Richards at 207-941-2800, ext 220; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — A UMaine student who is organizing and coordinating a charity fashion show hopes the project will bring a little unusual entertainment to the area, while at the same time raise money for the United Way of Eastern Maine. Jessica Richards of Orrington, a […]
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Contact: Amie Gellen, 581-1021; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Organizers of a day-long conference March 24 at UMaine hope to attract promising new teachers to science and math fields, and also to help make the subject matter more interesting for tomorrow’s classrooms. The conference is UMaine’s student-run Mathematics and Science Future Teachers Club’s (MSFTC) Seventh […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine and the state’s two southernmost community colleges have crafted an innovative plan aimed at expanding doctoral education opportunities for community college faculty and leaders. Starting in Fall 2007 and Spring 2008 Southern Maine Community College and York County Community College administrators and faculty […]
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Contact: Lauren Marshall at (207) 581-3201; Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Chris Hedges, a former New York Times war correspondent and author of “War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning,” will give a talk on his book at the University of Maine on Tuesday April 3. Hedges’ 4:30 p.m. presentation, which is […]
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Contact: Curvin Farnham, 581-1254; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s 65-member Symphonic Band will take to the road March 28 as it begins its annual Maine public schools spring tour and concert series. The band will make seven appearances and will share the stage with young public school musicians in some of […]
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Contact: Prof. Kate Beard (207) 581-2188; Joe Carr (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Me. — Some 30 national-level experts gathered in Portland Jan. 24-26 to discuss current thinking about ubiquitous computing, the idea that computers embedded in our environments can react to human preferences and adjust accordingly. One commonly used example is a system that knows when […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Rethinking the role of communication in a post 9/11 world will be the focus of a three-day conference at the University of Maine, June 28-30, sponsored by the National Communication Association. Highlighting the conference will be keynote addresses by Constance Penley, director of the Center for Film, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO –M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, professor of geography and international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, will present a seminar on environmental geography and policy at the University of Maine at noon on Thursday, March 22 in Norman Smith Hall. Wolman, a National Academy of Sciences member, pioneered the study […]
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Contact: Gretchen Gfeller, (207) 581-1696 ORONO, Me. — The Russians were newly experimenting with parliamentary democracy, the British Army was withdrawing from a foreign country, a senator resigned his seat, and the Maine Legislature hassling over the University of Maine budget allocation. Yesterday? Last week? No, all this happened in early March 1907 when Congress […]
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Contact: Karel Lidral, 581-1256; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – The University of Maine’s Chamber Jazz Ensemble will present its annual spring concert — a program of rich jazz standards — on April 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Leonard and Renee Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall. The program includes great jazz classics from […]
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