Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Peace Studies Program is organizing trips in February and March to Cuba and Nicaragua, offering a first-hand look at the social, political and economic effects of global trade policies on the two developing nations. The trips over spring break are open to anyone […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Sulak Sivaraksa, Thailand’s most prominent lay Buddhist social activist and author — and visiting Libra Professor — will lead Peace Week discussions Oct. 26-Nov. 4 at UMaine. Peace Week is an annual series of lectures sponsored by the university Peace Studies Program. Sivaraksa is widely known as […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine Intensive English Institute is planning for the February-March visit by more than two dozen Japanese college students, and again is seeking host families in the area. Institute Director Chris Mares will need even more families than volunteered to host the visiting students last February and […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu ORONO, Maine — The University of Maine College of Engineering and Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (LASST) will celebrate the grand opening of the new $16 million Engineering and Science Research Building on campus at 1:30 p.m. October 22. Supported by funding passed by Maine […]
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Contact: Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777, houtman@maine.edu;Paul Anderson, Maine Sea Grant, 207-581-1435, panderson@maine.edu ORONO– Paul Anderson, director of the Maine Sea Grant College Program at the University of Maine, has been elected to the post of the president elect of the National Sea Grant Association (NSGA), a non-profit organization in Washington D.C. Anderson […]
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Contact: James Campbell, Dept. of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, campbell@spatial.maine.edu, 207-548-2200 ORONO, Maine — Nationally renowned scholars Hal Abelson of MIT and Peter Suber of Public Knowledge will join local presenters at the “Copyright, Scholarship, and the Case for Open Access: A Conference on the Intellectual Commons” on Saturday, November 20, from 8:30 a.m. […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The next UMaine School of Performing Arts theater production, opening Oct. 22 at Hauck Auditorium, tackles the poignant and provocative “Bent,” a play depicting the treatment of homosexuals in Nazi Germany, and the persecution and terror the characters face during their imprisonment in camps during the reign […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — UMaine music professor, composer and performer Beth Wiemann has been selected for a 2004 Aaron Copland Awards residency at the former home of composer Aaron Copland near Peekskill, N.Y., an historic rural hide-away for emerging and talented musicians to work uninterrupted. The expenses-paid residencies offer gifted composers […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — artNOW!, an exhibition of new work by University of Maine Department of Art faculty can be seen from Oct. 15 to Nov. 19 in the Carnegie Galleries on the UMaine campus. ArtNOW! brings together the art of 22 faculty members in an exhibition of 80 pieces of […]
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Contact: Joe Kelley, Dept. of Earth Sciences, 207-581-2162, jtkelley@maine.edu; Joe Carr, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3571, joecarr@maine.edu Note: news media representatives are welcome to cover the meeting or participate in field trips. Arrangements can be made by calling Joe Kelley, 581-2162, jtkelley@maine.edu. On field trips, reporters must provide their own transportation and meals. ORONO, Maine […]
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