Bates College Orchestra offers world premiere of Ordway symphony

Posted On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , ,   
The program also includes Beethoven’s Overture to Coriolanus and Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll. Admission is open to the public at no cost, but tickets are required, available at batesorchestra.eventbrite.com. For more information, please contact [email protected] or 207-786-6163. Ordway, visiting assistant professor of music at Bates, started the symphony in Colorado in 2012 while ...

UMaine Professor Studies State Action Used to Save Popham Beach Bathhouse

Posted On Monday, November 4, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , , ,   
An effort by the state to save a Popham Beach bathhouse with a temporary seawall of fallen trees and beach scraping is an example of an appropriate engineering endeavor to save beach-front property without harming the landscape, according to research by a University of Maine professor. Joseph Kelley, professor of marine ...

Wireless Telecommunications Leader to Deliver UMaine Distinguished Presidential Lecture

Posted On Monday, October 28, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , , ,   
Dr. Rajendra Singh, a University of Maine graduate and leader in wireless telecommunications, will deliver the 2013 University of Maine Distinguished Presidential Lecture on Oct. 30 at 2 p.m. in Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium in the Engineering Science Research Building. The Distinguished Presidential Lecture Series, which is free and open ...

Smith Leads a Science Transformation

Posted On Sunday, October 20, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , ,   
A University of Maine researcher is participating in five projects aimed at improving nationwide science instruction and assessments. Michelle Smith, assistant professor in UMaine’s School of Biology and Ecology, is the principal investigator on four projects and co-principal investigator on another granted $6.8 million in total funding from the National Science ...

Science Journalist Offers Astrophotography Lecture, Wilderness Workshop

Posted On Sunday, October 13, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , ,   
Science journalist Babak Tafreshi leads a wilderness photography workshop and offers a lecture related to the Bates College Museum of Art exhibition Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography during October. Tafreshi leads the workshop in Maine’s Moosehead Lake Region Oct. 17-20 and offers an Oct. 22 lecture at Bates. He is the ...

Wyeth Family Studio Art Center Dedicated at the University of Maine

Posted On Saturday, October 5, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , ,   
The Wyeth Family Studio Art Center was dedicated Sept. 29 at the University of Maine honoring the legacy of the three generations of internationally recognized artists intrinsically linked to the state’s storied visual arts tradition. “This is a remarkable gathering of people who love art and love the University of Maine,” ...

Orchester Jakobsplatz Munich Highlights Two-Day Celebration of Jewish Culture

Posted On Friday, September 27, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , , ,   
The North American debut of Orchester Jakobsplatz Munich at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine Oct. 17 will highlight two days of music, lectures and film celebrating Jewish culture and honoring its history. The two-day event at the Collins Center begins at 7 p.m., Oct. 16 ...

Japanese Delegation at UMaine for Marine Energy International Symposium

Posted On Thursday, September 19, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , ,   
Japanese Delegation at UMaine for Marine Energy International Symposium An 11-member delegation of scientists and industry officials from Japan, including the president of Hirosaki University, will be at the University of Maine Sept. 16–18 for the second Marine Energy International Symposium. UMaine President Paul Ferguson and Hirosaki University President Kei Sato will open the symposium, designed to be a collaborative ...

Convocation 2013: Preparing for a Well-Aligned Life

Posted On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , , ,   
Preparing for a Well-Aligned Life “The more you are able to align your work with your authentic interests and talents, the less it feels like work, and the more it feels, simply, like living your life,” Bates President Clayton Spencer told the college’s new students during the Sept. 3 Convocation ceremony. During an afternoon ceremony moved ...

University of Maine - Discovering Ocean Optics

Posted On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , , ,   
Every couple of years at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center on the banks of the Damariscotta River estuary in Walpole, Maine, graduate students from all over the world converge at the research laboratory for four weeks of intense, hands-on ocean optics training. The class, “Ocean Optics: Calibration and Validation ...

Grant to Stem Tide of Losing Female Faculty

Posted On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , ,   
An initiative to transform the University of Maine by enhancing opportunities for women has received an additional $284,093 from the National Science Foundation. The supplemental funds will be used to develop a regional consortium to assist in the retention of female science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) faculty by facilitating dual-career ...

Crystal Ann Williams Named Associate Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer

Posted On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , ,   
Crystal Ann Williams of Reed College has been appointed associate vice president and chief diversity officer at BatesBates President A. Clayton Spencer announced today that Crystal Ann Williams of Reed College in Portland, Ore., will become associate vice president and chief diversity officer effective Nov. 4, 2013. Williams will oversee the Office of Equity and Diversity and the Office of Intercultural Education and serve as a member of ...

Dance festival’s final days bring diversity of ‘Different Voices,’ thrill of student work

Posted On Monday, August 12, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , ,   
Bates Dance Festival During its last week, the excitement of the Bates Dance Festival builds to a crescendo with cutting-edge performances including the Different Voices program showcasing young choreographers from around the world. Featuring New York-based hip hop / jazz choreographer Jennifer Archibald; the fierce Bay Area dance/music duo La Alternativa; former Bill T. ...

Falls Prevention Program Focus of $380,000 Grant

Posted On Monday, August 5, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , , ,   
Falls Prevention Program Focus of $380,000 Grant The National Institutes of Health has awarded $380,000 to researchers at the University of Maine Center on Aging, University of New England (UNE) and The Iris Network to study a falls prevention program for older citizens with vision impairment. Falls among older adults can lead to serious injury, loss of ...

Assessing a Sensitive, Storm-Stressed Ecosystem

Posted On Monday, July 29, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , , ,   
The effects of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation on plant and bird communities in coastal marshes from Maine to Virginia are the focus of a 10-state study by researchers from the University of Maine, University of Connecticut, University of Delaware and Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. Information gathered from more than ...

UMS Trustees Approve Plan to Enhance Adult Degree Completion

Posted On Monday, July 22, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , ,   
BANGOR — University of Maine System Trustees today approved recommendations from the Adult Baccalaureate Completion/Distance Education (ABCDE) Committee . The group was charged with developing a comprehensive, System - wide plan to enhance baccalaureate degree completion by Maine’s adult citizens. University of Maine at Augusta President Allyson Handley, who served on ...

Public invited to reopening of Colby College Museum of Art

Posted On Sunday, July 14, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , ,   
WATERVILLE — The Colby College Museum of Art is reopening Saturday with one-third more gallery space as part of a multimillion-dollar expansion, but the price of admission will be staying the same: zero. The museum's open door policy — it's free and open to the public — is part of its ...

Colby Art Museum’s Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion

Posted On Sunday, July 7, 2013 By . Under MAINE  Tags: , , , ,   
Founded in 1959 and now comprising five wings, nearly 8,000 works and more than 38,000 square feet of exhibition space, the Colby College Museum of Art has built an important collection that specializes in American and contemporary art with additional, select collections of Chinese antiquities and European paintings and works ...
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