Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO– Free tickets are still available for the Friday, May 9 University of Maine lecture featuring former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney. The lecture, scheduled for 11 a.m. in the Maine Center for the Arts, is UMaine’s fourth William S. Cohen Lecture. Cohen, the Bangor native who represented Maine […]
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Contact: Laura Wilson, Cooperative Extension, 207-581-2971; Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO– Hancock County residents with lakeshore property are invited to attend a meeting May 14, 9 to 11 a.m., at the Ellsworth City Hall to discuss the threat of invasive aquatic plants in lakes. Laura Wilson, water quality scientist with University of […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Longtime arts patrons and University of Maine benefactors Renee and Leonard Minsky of Bangor are the recipients of the fourth annual Vincent A. Hartgen Award. The award, sponsored by the UMaine Patrons of the Arts, was presented in a ceremony April 26 on campus. Named for the […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO – For the second consecutive year, the city of Bangor will be home to “May Festival: A Celebration of Generations,” a two-day series of events organized and hosted by the University of Maine’s Center on Aging and the Eastern Agency on Aging. The Center on Aging is part […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571; Amy Engler-Booth at (207) 581-2011 ORONO — May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, the perfect time to communicate some important information about hearing and speech. One in six Americans has a hearing, speech, or language problem–a condition that makes it difficult to communicate with others. Untreated, these problems […]
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Contact: James Acheson, Dept. of Anthropology, 207-581-1898; Nick Houtman, Dept. of Public Affairs, 207-581-3777 ORONO, Maine — When Jim Acheson was preparing to write his classic book, The Lobster Gangs of Maine (1988, University of New England Press), he spent a year living in a lobstering community. For several days, he lived with a family […]
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Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Art can open the doors to children’s understanding of themselves and the world around them, and the University of Maine is opening its doors again to community children who would like to study with UMaine art education majors. The university’s Art Department currently is accepting applications for […]
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Contact: Susan Young at (207) 581-3756 ORONO — Since completion of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994, trade between Maine and Canada has more than doubled. Today, Maine trades more than $3 billion worth of goods annually with Canada. The neighboring provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec alone rank second and third, respectively, […]
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Contact: Susan Young at (207) 581-3756 ORONO – Women in sports, peace and war, and the future of the historic Roe v. Wade decision will be among the topics discussed during the University of Maine’s 22nd annual Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies Program’s brown bag lunch series this semester. The discussions will be […]
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