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Pollution Prevention Plan, University Of Maine System

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine System's Pollution Prevention Plan

Publishing Scholarly Writing From The Editor's Point Of View, University Of Maine

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

This program brings three distinguished editors of leading journals to campus to discuss the scholarly publishing process: Robert Wilson of Phi Beta Kappa's The American Scholar, Stephen Depoe of Environmental Communication, and R. Brooks Hanson of Science. Each will give a public lecture and Q&A session in the Stodder Hall Graduate Commons on the scholarly publishing process in (respectively) humanities, social science, and science. Although intended primarily for graduate students and faculty, these events will be free, open to the public, and widely advertised. CETA will assist in organizing and advertising. The events will take place at 4 pm on …

Girls Engineer Maine Seminar, College Of Engineering

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The under-representation of women in engineering continues to be a cause of grave concern, particularly as international competitiveness focus attention on the need to increase native participation in the U.S. science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Engineering as a career is being promoted to girls through a new College of Engineering initiative called Girls Engineer Maine (GEM). GEM is an educational outreach program designed to increase the number of women studying engineering in Maine.

Women's History Celebration 2012 Report Form, Women In The Curriculum

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The DLS grant of $¡OOO funded most of the expenses of the visit of the keynote speaker, Dr. Sonya Michel, Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park. V/hile here she gave two presentations. She also met informally with faculty and graduate students. "When I'm Sixty-Four: Old Age Security for Women in Historical Perspective" Monday, March 19,3:15 - 4:30 pm, Bangor Room, Memorial Union. This was co-sponsored by the History Dept. and served as the March event of its monthly series of visiting lecturers. (This determined the day and time.) 'All in the Family? W'omen and the Work of Care, …

The New Writing Series, Spring 2012, English & National Poetry Foundation

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

New Writing Series programming has always been guided the principles of innovation, collaboration, interdisciplinary, and diversity. From the start we have also worked hard to maximize the impact of real-time events within the rapidly-changing new media context. For example, the NWS blog has received more than 55,500 page views since its creation in fall2006 (up from 38,000 this time last year). Our Facebook group, created in the fall of 2007, has more than 140 members and reaches many more people with event and Series information. The Flickr page on which we document events has received roughly 44,700 views to date. …

Financial Aid Annual Report Fy2011, University Of Maine System

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The University of Maine System annual financial aid report

Engineers Without Borders-Usa, University Of Maine Student Chapter Newsletter, Engineers Without Borders

General University of Maine Publications

Engineers Without Borders is a group of students with an interest in improving the quality of life for people in developing countries by working with communities on sustainable engineering projects.

Summary Of Fall 2011 Enrollments--Revised, University Of Maine System

General University of Maine Publications

This report provided summary information regarding University enrollments.

2011-12 Women's Basketball Roster, Maine Athletic Media Relations Office

General University of Maine Publications

No abstract provided.

Multi-Year Financial Plan Fy2013—Fy2017, University Of Maine System

General University of Maine Publications

. This report introduced the planning process and presented financial planning elements and forecasted scenarios. It provided background on financial challenges and context for upcoming decisions. The purpose of this planning process was to consider the underlying financial conditions that face the System and the impact of alternative action steps that may address projected shortfalls in the future. This report offered a transparent assessment of the System’s financial challenges.

Bepress Digital Commons, Outreach Environmental Survey And Repository Population Recommendations For The University Of Maine, Bepress Digital Commons Outreach

General University of Maine Publications

Report for the University of Maine. Included in this report are a set of general recommendations for building repository collections and breakdowns of some available collections in each of ten departments/schools. These breakdowns can be particularly useful to the repository manager or a liaison in identifying available collections prior to contacting or presenting to the department. It is recommended that the liaison or point person for each department receive the general recommendations in this report, as well as the breakdown for his or her specific departments. Further research into the collections is also recommended since many lists of publications and …

Spring Dance Concert 2012, School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Dance classes are extremely popular with students and enrollments and attendance have gone up. Consequently, there are always waiting lists for students to enroll in classes, particularly beginning classes, as well as lines in the lobby at the performances. This is due to the efforts of our professional faculty and staff, who make dance at UM a significant learning experience that rounds out a student's education. Dance classes culminate in actual dance concert performances that feature jazz,balle| tap, modern, hip hop, and international themes. The dance program has evolved from a works-in-progress presentation in Minsky Recital Hall in the Fall …

Stuart Little: Elementary School Spring Touring Production, School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

This is the endearing classic about a mouse named Stuart who is born into an ordinary New York family. All the charm, wisdom and joy of the E.B. White original is captured in this adaptation by Joseph Robinette, who also dramatized the highly acclaimed stage version of Charlotte's Web. The many adventures-both big and small-of Stuart Little are brought vividly to life in this story-theatre presentation. The acting ensemble plays many human and animal roles in a series of delightful scenes that make up the marvelous maneuverings of a mild-mannered mouse trying to survive in a "real people's world." Ease …

Spring 2012 Visiting Artist Series, Department Of New Media

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The New Media and Intermedia MFA Programs are requesting funds to help support a spring lecture series. The following visiting artists will share their expertise in the following areas: an evening lecture with a question and answer period to follow, classroom visits, direct one-on-one student meetings and/or critiques and performances or other public presentations. The following artists have been selected because of the quality and engaging nature of their work. The artists' desire to interact with the students in a learning environment and to engender excitement about the arts on Campus was another qualiffing factor in their selection. The spring …

Culturefest 2011, International Student Association

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Culturefest is an annual event hosted by Office of International Programs and the International Student Association. This is a day-long celebration of various cultures from around the world. This is a place for our international students to showcase their cultural traditions. US students from multicultural backgrounds are also welcome to take part and celebrate their families' heritage. Each country or region will have a table to exhibit their traditional items brought from home. There will be a talent show with music, dances, and other performance art from different cultures and in different languages. We also have a fashion show for …

2011- 2012 Philosophy Colloquium, Department Of Philosophy

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Department of Philosophy is seeking funding support from the Cultural Aflairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Fund for its 201 l-2012 Philosophy Colloquium Series. This series of public talks will provide the opportunity for students, faculty, and community members both w¡thin and beyond the Department of Philosophy to hear and discuss stimulating lectures on a wide range of topics that are relevant both to the core themes of the department's philosophy curriculum as well as to current issues of ethical, political, social. and philosophic import.

Chemfest 2011, Department Of Chemistry

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

ChemFest. 2011 is our local participation in National Chemistry Week intended to celebrate the contributions of the sciences, and, in particular, chemistry, to modern life and society. ChemFest will take place in Aubert Hall in the late afternoon and evening of Wednesday, October 12,2011.

The program consists of an open house for members of the campus community and beyond, including area school teachers and their students. We anticipate well over one hundred attendees. Undergraduate student members of the American Chemical Society UM Student Affiliates will present interactive demonstrations of chemistry at a level understandable to a lay audience.

Cave Of Forgotten Dreams, Hudson Museum

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Directed by Werner Herzog, Cave of Forgotten Dreams will be shown at the Collins Center for the Arts on Thursday, October 6th at 7:00 p.m. The film is the only opportunity for the public to explore Chauvet Cave of Southern France and the extraordinary pictorial creations dating perhaps some 32,000 years ago. Images of horses, cave bears and lions as well as mammoths and human handprints adorn the cave's limestone walls and bear witness to the past'

Capitalism's Ongoing Crisis: Causes Consequences And Solutions, University Of Maine

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

III. Summary of program requiring funding (title; featured artist(s); speaker(s); scheduled date(s): Professor Richard D. Wolff will present a lecture entitled "Capitalism's Ongoing Crisis: Causes Consequences and Solutions" on 20 October at 7:30 pm in 101 Neville Hall as part of the Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Memorial Lecture Series. Professor V/olff will also deliver a luncheon talk for the Socialist and Marxist Studies Series on 20 October at 12:30 pm in the Bangor Lounge at the Memorial Union on "Rethinking the Capitalist-Communist Difference: A Marxian Analysis."

An Analysis Of Disability-Related Provisions In The 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act (Heoa): What Universities And Policy Makers Should Know, Alan Kurtz

Education

The purpose of this October 2011 policy brief is to provide state agencies, postsecondary institutions, and policy makers with an overview of changes in the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) affecting the access to education of postsecondary students with disabilities and the way teacher education programs at Institutions of Higher Learning (IHEs) prepare general and special educators to teach students with disabilities. Specifically, this analysis reviews disability-related terminology new to this revision of the HEOA, access to instructional materials for students with print disabilities, changes in access to financial aid for students with intellectual disabilities, model demonstration projects both …

Constitution And Bylaws University Of Maine Faculty Senate, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

Constitution and bylaws of the University of Maine Faculty Senate

Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter, October 2011, Maine Peace Action Committee

General University of Maine Publications

MPAC compiled a newsletter consisting of essays, articles, short stories, poems, recipes, political cartoons, and artwork.

History And Developments Of Maine’S Essential Programs And Services Program, David L. Silvernail

Maine Education Policy Research Institute

No abstract provided.

Dawnbreaker Vol 59 No 1 (Fall 2011), Dawnbreaker Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.

Collaborative Research: Centers For Ocean Science Education Excellence - Oceans In The Earth-Sun System, Annette Decharon

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

This award establishes a new Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE) via awards to the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences (0528706), the University of Maine (0528702), and the University of New Hampshire (0528686). The main goals of this thematic Center are to broaden understanding of the oceans in the context of the earth and solar systems and to help the COSEE network reach rural and inland audiences. The PIs will pioneer a system of interfaces, tools, and resources to reach underserved and underrepresented groups, and to bring ocean sciences to inland audiences by presenting it in the context of …

The Persona Doll Project: Promoting Diversity Awareness Among Preservice Teachers Through Storytelling, Mary Ellin Logue, V. Susan Bennett-Armistead, Soojoung Kim

Child Development and Family Relations Faculty Scholarship

The Persona Doll Project describes an experiential intervention with undergraduate preservice teachers designed to increase awareness about diversity and apply this awareness to curriculum planning and advocacy for children. Sixty-three undergraduate students in a social studies methods class were each assigned a persona doll for the semester whose background differed from their own. Each was charged with becoming the advocate for the child, represented by the doll, by telling informed stories that would help other students better understand a level of diversity beyond what they knew from their own lives. Students heightened awareness of their own assumptions through narrative, inquiry …

Engineers Without Borders-Usa, University Of Maine Student Chapter Newsletter, Engineers Without Borders

General University of Maine Publications

Engineers Without Borders is a group of students with an interest in improving the quality of life for people in developing countries by working with communities on sustainable engineering projects.

Anthropology Department Annual Newsletter, Department Of Anthropology

General University of Maine Publications

Anthropology is the study of humans. Anthropologists study the entire spectrum of human existence from 6.5 million years ago when the first hominid set foot on the African continent, the process of human evolution, domestication of plants and animals, development of civilization, migration to the ends of the earth, and the present day diversity of cultures, religions, economies, and kinship systems seen around the world. Anthropology provides a well-rounded, generalist education that enhances wide career choices and provides students with the ability to critically evaluate theories, options, and actions that affect humankind.

University Of Maine System Defined Benefit Pension Fund Annual Report, University Of Maine System

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine System (UMS) Defined Benefit Pension Plan (Pension Plan) is a closed plan, maintained for eligible employees who chose not to join the Defined Contribution Plan established for hourly employees on July 1, 1998. This plan covers a shrinking group of active employees, vested terminated employees, and pensioners.

Managed Investment Pool (Including Endowments) Year Ended June 30, 2011, University Of Maine System

General University of Maine Publications

University of Maine System managed investment pool (including endowments) annual report