Contact: Bob Potts, Marketing & Creative Services, (207) 581-1149 or (800) 934-2586 “Paint The Town BLUE!” theme captures essence of Homecoming celebrationAppearance by “Motor Booty Affair” to highlight weekend ORONO, Me. — The University of Maine Alumni Association has announced the schedule of events for the 131st Homecoming Weekend at UMaine, October 20, 21 and […]
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Contact: Amos Orcutt, President/CEO, University of Maine Foundation, 800.982.8503 ORONO — John I. Simpson of Bangor was elected 2006-2007 chair of the University of Maine Foundation Board of Directors at the foundation’s Oct. 4 annual meeting. Simpson is a 1971 graduate of the University of Maine; he also received an MBA in 1983. He is […]
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Contact: Owen Smith, 299-2418; George Manlove, 581-3756; Walter Tisdale, 942-3119 ORONO — The newest exhibit at the Department of Art’s Lord Hall Gallery at UMaine focuses a good deal on books, in addition to the creativity that emerges when artists and writers collaborate, but to appreciate the show, visitors must suspend their ingrained concept of […]
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Contact: Richard Brzozowski, 800-287-1471 (in Maine) ORONO–University of Maine Cooperative Extension and several farm equipment dealers have joined forces to offer free “Slow Moving Vehicle” (SMV) signs to Maine farmers this fall. Maine motorists should be on the lookout for these bright signs— fluorescent orange triangles bordered with reflective red—which are mounted on the rear […]
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Contact: Len Kaye, 581-3483; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Mercury aside, Len Kaye wonders how much blood pressure medication, cholesterol regulators, birth control pills or prescription painkillers are winding up in the tuna fish in his sandwich. Kaye, director of the Center on Aging at the University of Maine, serves on the leadership board of […]
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Contact: Kathryn Jovanelli at 207.561.3352 Bangor, Maine — The University of Maine Museum of Art is pleased to present two printmak-ing exhibitions as part of Celebrating 200 Years of Printmaking in Maine and in collaboration with The Maine Print Project. Richard Estes: Prints and John Marin: A Print Survey will draw from the museum’s important […]
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Contact: Tammy Light, 581-1293; Joe Carr, 581-3571 ORONO — When Nathan Cunningham’s colleagues in the University of Maine Office of Student Records learned last May he had been diagnosed with Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), a precursor to leukemia, they asked how they could help. Cunningham asked if they would help organize a bone marrow donor registration […]
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Contact: Phillip Silver, 581- 1783; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — This year’s “Thwarted Voiced” concert Oct. 22 at the University of Maine features the works of Holocaust-era composers whose work can be publicly enjoyed after a half century of suppression. UMaine music professor and pianist Phillip Silver, an internationally recognized scholar and authority on […]
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Contact: David Munson, UMaine University Relations (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – UMaine doctoral student Leigh Stearns has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as one of ten graduate students nationwide to participate in the 2006 International Astronautical Congress in Valencia, Spain in October. Organized by the International Astronautical Federation, the four-day event […]
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