The University of Maine at Fort Kent will host environmental speaker David Tingley on Friday, November 13 from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in Nadeau Hall teleconference room. The presentation is part of the Environmental Speaker Series on campus. The event is free and open to the public. Tingley will present a talk on the Natural Resources Conservation Service, an agency under the U.S. Department of Agriculture umbrella. NRCS provides technical and financial assistance for various conservation activities, primarily on agricultural land. He will touch on the history behind the agency and then get into some specific activities and projects that are being worked on in the St. John Valley region. He also will discuss some of the primary federal programs that the NRCS is involved with in this part of the state.
University of Maine at Fort Kent professors, Dr. Soraya Cardenas, Dr. Thomas A. (Tony) Enerva, and Dr. Raymond T. Albert will present before the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) New England Regional Conference, to be held this Friday, October 30, at the University of Southern Maine, in Portland. Sloan-C is an institutional and professional leadership organization dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of online education.
It will be a somewhat different homecoming for Todd R. Collins when he takes to the stage of the Fox Auditorium at his alma mater, the University of Maine at Fort Kent, next Tuesday morning. The Fort Kent native and UMFK alumnus will present an oral argument for the state (prosecution) before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court when it meets in session in front of an audience of St. John Valley high school students. The state’s highest court will meet in session at 9 a.m. on October 27, as it hears three cases at UMFK. For the past five years, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court has held oral arguments in actual appeals before high school students across the state.
The University of Maine at Fort Kent will host community leaders and local energy teams looking to develop and implement effective local energy projects and policies aimed to reduce energy use, when they convene for Maine’s first Cool Congress on Saturday, October 3, from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. The event will take place in the Old Model School, located on Pleasant Street in Fort Kent. UMFK will be linked to the Cool Congress by an Interactive Television (ITV) feed, along with other University of Maine campuses from across the state. Go to coolmaine.org to register online; click on “2009 Conference” or call Sandy at 761-5616. The conference is free for Aroostook County residents, and lunch will be provided for participants, thanks to sponsorship from the Northern Maine Development Commission (NMDC).
The University of Maine at Fort Kent Alumni Association paid tribute to three individuals whose lives have been touched by UMFK and who have, in turn, made an impact on the campus community at the annual Alumni and Friends Banquet held last Saturday evening in Nowland Hall on the Fort Kent campus. WILLIAM B. WARK a 1964 graduate of UMFK was presented with the 2009 Outstanding Alumni award; ANDREW STICKINGS a graduate from the class of 1994 received the Outstanding Young Alumni award in absentia, and HEATHER DECOTES, who will graduate later this year, was presented with the Outstanding Future Alumni award.