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UMFK Environmental Speakers Series Present Professional Engineer and Geologist, Michelle Hersey
Michelle Hersey, a licensed Maine professional engineer and certified geologist, will speak on Environmental Consulting in Aroostook County as part of the University of Maine at Fort Kent’s Environmental Speakers on Friday, March 15 at 11 a.m. in the Nadeau Hall Teleconference Room. The talk is free and open to ...
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UMFK Environmental Speakers Series Present Professional Engineer and Geologist, Michelle Hersey
Michelle Hersey, a licensed Maine professional engineer and certified geologist, will speak on Environmental Consulting in Aroostook County as part of the University of Maine at Fort Kent’s Environmental Speakers on Friday, March 15 at 11 a.m. in the Nadeau Hall Teleconference Room. The talk is free and open to ...
UMFK Presidential Lecture Series to present poet Connie Voisine
The University of Maine at Fort Kent Presidential Series committee will present the award-winning poet and Fort Kent native, Dr. Connie Voisine, as its guest speaker on Friday, March 8 at 7 p.m. in the Nadeau Hall Teleconference Room. Ms. Voisine will talk to her audience of students, faculty, staff ...
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UMFK Presidential Lecture Series to present poet Connie Voisine
The University of Maine at Fort Kent Presidential Series committee will present the award-winning poet and Fort Kent native, Dr. Connie Voisine, as its guest speaker on Friday, March 8 at 7 p.m. in the Nadeau Hall Teleconference Room. Ms. Voisine will talk to her audience of students, faculty, staff ...
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UMFK students named to the fall 2012 Dean’s List
Dr. Rachel E. Albert, vice president for academic affairs at the University of Maine at Fort Kent has announced that 327 students were named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2012 semester. Students attaining the honor must be degree candidates, enrolled as a full-time student or a part-time student, ...
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UMFK TO OFFER ONLINE COURSES DURING MARCH SESSION
The University of Maine at Fort Kent will offer seven, credit-bearing online courses beginning Monday, March 18. All courses are eight weeks in length. Courses offered during the March session include: nursing, music, history, speech, coaching, education, earth science, and information technology. COM 200: Speech Prerequisites: None. Focuses on preparation, ...
UMFK’s Center for Rural Sustainable Development to hold Informational Meeting on Biograss Farming
The University of Maine at Fort Kent’s Center for Rural Sustainable Development will hold an informational meeting for area farmers on biograss farming in northern Maine on Monday, February 25, at 6:30 p.m. in UMFK’s Nadeau Hall Teleconference Room. The keynote speaker at the meeting will be Kalvin Ernst, a ...
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TRiO Works in Aroostook County
For thousands of students from low-income families who strive to be the first in their family to attend and graduate from college, federally-funded programs called TRiO are making a world of difference in Maine. There are four TRiO programs in Aroostook County: Educational Talent Search, Upward Bound, Student Support Services, ...
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UMFK’s Center for Rural Sustainable Development to hold Informational Meeting on Biograss Farming
The University of Maine at Fort Kent’s Center for Rural Sustainable Development will hold an informational meeting for area farmers on biograss farming in northern Maine on Monday, February 25, at 6:30 p.m. in UMFK’s Nadeau Hall Teleconference Room. The keynote speaker at the meeting will be Kalvin Ernst, a ...
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UMFK’s Dr. Kimberly Borges-Therien named to Trustee Professorship
University of Maine System Chancellor, Dr. James H. Page, has appointed University of Maine at Fort Kent Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Dr. Kimberly M. Borges-Therien, to a UMS Trustee Professorship for the 2013-14 academic year. Dr. Borges’ appointment is for her pilot study of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Diversity in a ...
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Entries sought for UMFK writing contest
The University of Maine at Fort Kent’s Presidential Lecture Series committee will host a writing contest entitled, Disasters. The committee is searching for submissions from UMFK students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members. How have you been affected by disaster – natural, self-made, or simply a life circumstance? Those of ...
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24th annual Maine Women’s Hall of Fame
The Twenty-fourth Annual Maine Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Gala Celebration will be observed on Saturday, March 16, 2013 in Jewett Hall at the University of Maine at Augusta. Each year’s ceremony is held at UMA during the month of March, in observance of Women’s History Month. A ...
UMFK’s Alumni Association to host local talent
The University of Maine at Fort Kent’s Alumni Association will host its annual talent show fundraiser at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2, in the UMFK Fox Auditorium. Tickets will be sold at the door on the evening of the performance at $5 per person. The show will feature a ...
State Education Commissioner Stephen L. Bowen to speak on UMFK campus
The University of Maine at Fort Kent Board of Visitors’ Business Breakfast Series will welcome Stephen L. Bowen, Maine education commissioner, at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 1, in Nowland Hall. Bowen will speak on the state of education in Maine. Tickets for the event are $10 and may be ...
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UMFK’s TRiO Staff Support Efforts to Increase Educational Opportunities for Students
Angela Theriault and Shawn Graham work for the Student Support Services TRiO program at UMFK. In addition to their usual job duties with TRiO students, Theriault and Graham understand the importance of advocacy and supportive efforts to increase educational opportunities within their communities, as well as on the state and ...
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UMFK to host regional round for National Spelling Bee
The University of Maine at Fort Kent will host the Northern District (Aroostook County) Scripps National Spelling Bee competition for 6, 7, and 8 grade students on Friday, February 8 at 6:30 p.m. in Fox Auditorium. The 2013 competition is sponsored by Maine School Administrative District #27, under the supervision ...
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Greater Fort Kent Area Chamber of Commerce 65th Annual Dinner held on February 8
The Greater Fort Kent Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its 65th Annual Dinner on Friday, February 8, 2013 at the University of Maine at Fort Kent’s Sports Center. The social will start at 5:15 p.m. followed by dinner and program at 6 p.m. The theme of this year’s event ...
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Russ Mortland named TRiO Student of the Semester
The Student Support Services TRiO program at the University of Maine at Fort Kent is pleased to announce the selection of Russ Mortland, a senior nursing major, as its first TRiO Student of the Semester, for the fall 2012 semester. TRiO understands the hard work, effort, and determination students put ...
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“SNOW” Writing Contest Winners Announced
The University of Maine at Fort Kent’s Presidential Lecture Series committee have announced the three individuals who are the winners for the UMFK-sponsored bi- annual writing contest conducted this fall. Katie Levesque, from Fort Kent, was selected as the contest winner. Edwin Gray James, formerly from Raleigh, North Carolina, now ...
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Melanie Saucier to perform on MPBN’s Christmas TV special
A seventeen-year-old singing sensation from Fort Kent, Melanie Dorice Saucier, was invited to join a who’s who of Maine folk and classical musicians for the Maine Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN) Christmas TV special, which was recently recorded at the Husson University’s Gracie Theatre in Bangor, Maine. Performers include Noel Paul ...
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