UMaine News

Contact: Bob Potts (bob.potts@umit.maine.edu) at (207) 581-1149 ORONO, ME– The University of Maine Alumni Association has announced its schedule of events for Homecoming Weekend at UMaine, October 22, 23, & 24, 2004. Highlights of this year’s Homecoming include the Black Bear football game vs. Northeastern, Saturday at 2 PM at Alfond Stadium.  Two hockey games […]

Contact: Sara Lindsay, School of Marine Sciences, 207-581-2739;Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777. ORONO– Barbed wire, chain saw cutters and the Wright brothers’ airplane may be mechanical devices, but they are part of a story inspired by nature’s own handiwork. Author Steven Vogel will tell that story as part of a public presentation, Copying […]

Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The UMaine School of Performing Arts is bringing a guest composer and percussionist to Minsky Recital Hall Sept. 30 to perform his “Music for a Plugged-In Percussionist” concert, an innovative and cutting-edge application of digital music in the area of percussion. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. […]

Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The 2004 edition of Culturefest, the University of Maine’s annual celebration of international and cultural diversity, is set for Saturday, Oct. 30 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the UMaine Field House. Culturefest activities are designed to provide the community with opportunities to lean about and enjoy cultures […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine anthropology and marine sciences professor James Acheson has been named the 2004 winner of the prestigious American Anthropological Association’s Kimball award for effecting change in public policy. Acheson, a cultural anthropologist, author and professor at UMaine since 1968, will receive the Solon T. Kimball […]

Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The harsh graphic violence in so many of today’s computer video games may seem impersonal as players wind their characters’ way through tunnels, fortresses and dangerous city streets, but a UMaine New Media professor believe there’s a lot more going on than meets the eye. “What people call entertainment […]

Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The Maine Folklife Center’s programs at this year’s Common Ground Fair highlight inland boat and canoe building, featuring some of Maine’s well-known guides and boat builders. The fair is Sept. 24, 25 and 26 in Unity. The Folklife Center has assembled a group of canoe experts to […]

Contact: Nick Houtman at (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine — Just over a year after Maine voters approved a jobs bond in June 2003, the University of Maine’s Advanced Engineering Wood Composites (AEWC) Center is humming with activity in a new laboratory funded by the bond. “Many projects involve Maine businesses and communities in need of […]

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A group of seven students and an adviser from the Mexican university La Universidad de las Am

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A grand opening for the remodeled Bear’s Den in the University of Maine’s Memorial Union will bring into focus the pub-style facility’s important role in UMaine’s culture, past and present. The grand opening is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 24 at 4 p.m.  The space that formerly held […]