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Picasso At Lapin Agile, School Of Performing Arts Mar 2001

Picasso At Lapin Agile, School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Picasso at the Lapin Agíte was the winner of 1996 New York Outer Critics Circle Awards for "Best Play" and "Best Playwright." This long-running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned -Scientist transformed physics with this theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. In his first comedy for the stage, the popular actor and screenwriter, Steve Martin, plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other …


Partnership Schools To Share Expertise At Collective In-Service Day, Kay Hyatt Feb 2001

Partnership Schools To Share Expertise At Collective In-Service Day, Kay Hyatt

General University of Maine Publications

Nearly 700 teachers will participate in a series of workshops taking place from Bangor to Bradley during a collaborative Regional In-service Day on Friday, March 9. The second annual event, pooling the resources and expertise of seven school districts and the University of Maine, is sponsored by the Penobscot River Educational Partnership: A Professional Development Network (PREP: PDN).


Poetry Institute Offered For Teachers, Kay Hyatt Feb 2001

Poetry Institute Offered For Teachers, Kay Hyatt

General University of Maine Publications

A new summer offering from the Maine Writing Project at the University of Maine will focus on the teaching of poetry in K-12 classrooms. The advanced institute will be led by Maine's Poet Laureate, Baron Wormser of Hallowell.


University Of Maine Softball Media Guide, 2001, University Of Maine Athletic Media Relations Office Feb 2001

University Of Maine Softball Media Guide, 2001, University Of Maine Athletic Media Relations Office

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine softball team enters year two of the Deb Smith era expecting more offensive balance and a return to the America East tournament. The Black Bears will go forth without offensive force and 2000 America East Player of the Year Sara Jewett, who graduated after a stellar four-year career. Though it’s impossible to replace a player of Jewett’s caliber, Coach Smith expects better offensive production throughout the lineup to make up for the loss.


Reverend Glover Speaks On Race, Peace, Emily Lamoureux Feb 2001

Reverend Glover Speaks On Race, Peace, Emily Lamoureux

Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Article from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding a speech by Reverend Clarence Glover on racism and peace as part of African American Heritage Month celebrations.


Cabaret, School Of Performing Arts Feb 2001

Cabaret, School Of Performing Arts

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Cabaret will incorporate the talents of at least 100 people, including a cast of 48 students, plus musicians and behind-the'scenes crews. Everyone involved is excited at the prospect of participating in a production.of such magnitude. However, the emerging concern is the lack of students able to play all of the instruments demanded by the score. We believe we have students capable and available to fit at least 1ó of the musical parts, but we respectfully ask the Cultural Affairs Committee to grant funds to help cover expenses for positions that cannot be fitted by students. The most pressing need is …


Peace Week 2000, Peace Studies Program Feb 2001

Peace Week 2000, Peace Studies Program

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The Peace Studies Program and the Office of Multicultural Programs are collaborating on a series of events during the week of February 5-9,2001 These events are apart of the UMaine celebration of Black History Month as well as the Peace Studies spring series, *2001: A Peace Odyssey." On February 5,2001, we will bring the special multimedia show American Pictures back to UM. V/hen last here in February 1998, American Pictures engaged hundreds of students, faculty and staff in a powerful experience of racism and oppression in the U.S. V/e have also scheduled a "debriefing" conversation on American Pictures for February …


Franco American Week, University Of Maine- Orono Feb 2001

Franco American Week, University Of Maine- Orono

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

The first annual Franco American Week will take place at the University of Maine February Z7-March 60, 2001. This week is designed to bring together on and off campus communities in order to celebrate and explore Franco American Cultures, We have a variety of speakers and performers lined up: Josée Vachon, a Franco American musician; Michael Parent, a Franco American singer, songwriter, storyteller and writer; Denis Ledoux, a Franco American writer and teacher; the Nos Histoires de l'ile, a group of local oral historians; Robert Chinard, a genealogist; and several Franco American poets and writers, We are asking the Cultural …


Umaine Black Bear Baseball Media Guide, 2001, University Of Maine Athletic Media Relations Feb 2001

Umaine Black Bear Baseball Media Guide, 2001, University Of Maine Athletic Media Relations

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine Black Bears Baseball media guide for the 2001 season.


New Education Data Reports Published, Kay Hyatt Jan 2001

New Education Data Reports Published, Kay Hyatt

General University of Maine Publications

The Maine Education Policy Research Institute has published the fifth editions of two documents that profile and detail the various school and community indicators essential to examining and measuring the needs and effectiveness of a school system.


Writing Project Offering Summer Institute In Southern Maine, Kay Hyatt Jan 2001

Writing Project Offering Summer Institute In Southern Maine, Kay Hyatt

General University of Maine Publications

The Maine Writing Project will hold its summer professional development program in southern Maine to reach and accommodate educators in different areas of the state. This summer's institute in Cumberland represents the first time the intensive program for exemplary Maine teachers has been conducted away from the University of Maine campus. "As Maine's official National Writing Project site, we have a mission to serve the entire state" said Maine Writing Project founder and director Jeffrey Wilhelm, associate professor of literacy at UMaine. "We want to offer programs to as many people as possible."


Umaine Students Recognized For Academic Achievement, Kay Hyatt Jan 2001

Umaine Students Recognized For Academic Achievement, Kay Hyatt

General University of Maine Publications

Eighty-eight students in the University of Maine's College of Education and Human Development were recognized recently for outstanding academic achievement. The students, representing communities throughout Maine, five other states and Canada, were honored at the Presidential Academic Achievement Award Ceremony, attended by faculty and family members.


New Writing Series Spring 2001, English Department Jan 2001

New Writing Series Spring 2001, English Department

Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series

Our programming for Spring 2001 brings to campus a diverse group of poets, from emerging writers like Kristin Prevallet and Robert Fitterman to Bollingen-pnze winner Robert Creeley, and from locally-based writers like Sylvester Pollet and Constance Hunting to nationally recognized writers like Eileen Myles. In combination with the Maine Poetry and Story Exchange (featuring Maine writers of all kinds) and the Maine Review Reading (representing the work of UMaine undergraduate writers), the Series is designed to provide maximum exposure to the widest range of possibilities in the art of poetry.


Labor's Demographics…Report For 2001, University Of Maine Jan 2001

Labor's Demographics…Report For 2001, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

Bureau of labor education's report on labor's demographics.


2001, Umaine News Press Releases, Peter Cook, Joe Carr, Kay Hyatt, Nick Houtman, Division Of Marketing And Communications Jan 2001

2001, Umaine News Press Releases, Peter Cook, Joe Carr, Kay Hyatt, Nick Houtman, Division Of Marketing And Communications

General University of Maine Publications

This is a catalog of press releases put out by the University of Maine Division of Marketing and Communications between January to December 2001. Incomplete.


Peace And Reconciliation Studies_Paul Rogat Loeb Presentation Poster, University Of Maine Peace And Reconciliation Studies Program Jan 2001

Peace And Reconciliation Studies_Paul Rogat Loeb Presentation Poster, University Of Maine Peace And Reconciliation Studies Program

General University of Maine Publications

Photograph of a poster promoting a presentation from Paul Rogat Loeb "Citizen of a Soul: Living with Conviction in a Cynical time" held at the Maine Center for the Arts on October 22, 2001. The event was organized by the University of Maine's Peace and Reconciliation Studies' (formerly known as Peace Studies) Peace Week.


University Of Maine System 2001 Annual Financial Report, University Of Maine System Jan 2001

University Of Maine System 2001 Annual Financial Report, University Of Maine System

General University of Maine Publications

The University of Maine System (“the System”) consists of seven Universities and a central administrative office. All activities of the System are included in the accompanying financial statements.


Maine's Development Dilemma, University Of Maine Jan 2001

Maine's Development Dilemma, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

Bureau of labor education's report on economic development in Maine, and dilemmas that surrounded it.