Contact: Hugh Curran, (207) 667-7170/581-2609, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The Peace Studies Program and the Philosophy Department at UMaine are sponsoring a visit by Brian Victoria, author and Zen scholar who has written extensively on themes relating to war and violence in Buddhism. He is scheduled to give two talks on Thursday, April […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine’s Clean Snowmobile Challenge team received a Best Value Award while coming in fourth in competition among 13 teams at Michigan Tech last week. Teams from SUNY-Buffalo, Clarkson University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison took the first three places. UMaine’s modified […]
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Contact: Anne Schmidt, (207) 478-0576, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine School of Performing Arts theater division is offering Broadway Nights, an uplifting comedic musical review, March 24-25, at 7:30 p.m. at Minsky Recital Hall on the Orono campus. The student production, being directed by Sandra Hardy, associate professor of theater, […]
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Contact: Devon Storman, (207) 581-1550, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Anti-racism activist and author Tim Wise will speak on campus April 21 as part of the University of Maine’s Diversity Leadership Institute program. Wise, a prominent national speaker on racism and author of “White Like Me, Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son” and […]
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Contact: Emily Gammon, (207) 581-7179, (cell 651-9764), George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 Several area residents are in this production) ORONO — Luigi Pirandello’s play within a play, “Six Characters in Search of an Author,” is being brought to the University of Maine’s Hauck Auditorium April 6-9 and April 10 by the Maine Masque Theater. Performances for […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Trucks recently rolled into the University of Maine with 4,000 pounds of Maine potatoes, purchased at a steep discount from the surplus supply of the Maine Dept. of Corrections. Those spuds will find their way, on Wednesday March 23, onto the tables of UMaine students in a […]
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Contact: Steve Colburn, (207) 581-1982, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine accounting students will be available Thursdays through April 14 to provide free help with filing state and federal income tax returns. Sessions, scheduled from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Thursdays, began March 17 in Room 218 in the Donald P. Corbett Business Building. About […]
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Contact: Jennifer Moreau at 581-4585 or Joe Carr at 581-3571 ORONO– With the rapidly rising obesity rate and the health care costs associated with a sedentary lifestyle, UMaine Dining Services has joined forces with other campus departments in a joint effort to promote National Nutrition Month and the joys of an active healthy lifestyle. The […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt, (207) 581-2761 (Professors Gordon Donaldson and Richard Ackerman are available for comment on the preparation, work and challenges of K-12 educational administrators.) Many of the themes in the hard-hitting critique of the nation’s school administrator preparation institutions issued this week are age-old debates about what educational leadership is and should do, according […]
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Contact: Kay Hyatt, (207) 581-2761 ORONO, Maine — Leadership teams from the 12 Sports Done Right pilot sites will gather March 22 at the University of Maine for a training session focusing on engaging communities in defining and promoting healthy interscholastic sports at their high schools and middle schools. The meeting runs from 9 a.m. […]
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