Archive for November, 2010
A group of individuals supporting the Department of Public Administration met with members of the Faculty Senate on Nov. 17 to discuss the suspension of both the undergraduate and graduate degree programs in what has been …
A variety of activity, with both guest speakers and senate committee elections, kept senators busy at the Nov. 16 session of University of Maine Student Government.
UMaine Dean of Students Robert Dana explained new changes in …
Four University of Maine students will take part in a spring congressional internship program that has a legacy of more than 50 years.
Third-year political science students Benjamin Goodman, Joseph Marro, Timothy Robbins and Nathaniel Wildes will …
The University of Maine’s Black Bear Exchange, a program of the Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism, officially opened its new location in the back of Estabrooke Hall on Nov. 16.
The exchange will be open Wednesdays …
Portions of the University of Maine campus were without power on the morning of Nov. 15 after a substation transformer at the Steam Plant belonging to the Bangor Hydro Electric Company experienced an electrical failure. …
A former deputy United States trade representative discussed the future of the global economy in a lecture Monday afternoon, railing against perceived “political gyrations” that say the American economy is unhealthier than in the 1980s.
Ambassador John …
The University of Maine’s Canadian-American Center wrapped up Canada Week Monday, Nov. 15, with a lecture describing the history of hydroelectric power in Quebec.
David Massell, a professor of Canadian history at the University of Vermont, delivered …
The Orono Town Council and a representative from the Bangor region’s public transportation authority agreed to permanently move the route of the BAT Community Connector shuttle bus at a Monday evening committee meeting.
Councilmembers decided to officially …
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A driver backing up a mail truck by Alumni Buchanan House struck a parked vehicle at 2:18 p.m. Nov. 15. Damages to the parked vehicle, a 2010 Buick Lucerne, are estimated at $300.
A different kind …
For more than a decade, the New Writing Series has brought a variety of authors and poets to speak on the University of Maine campus.
Usually taking place Thursday afternoons in Soderberg Auditorium, each installment in the …
