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The University of Maine at Fort Kent will host noted Irish folk singer and humorist, Seamus Kennedy, on Friday, November 20 at 7 p.m. in the Fox Auditorium. General admission is $5 per person. UMFK students may attend free.
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.
The Center for Rural Sustainable Development (CRSD) at the University of Maine at Fort Kent (UMFK) is accepting entries for a logo design contest, a photo contest, and an essay competition, all based on the theme “Sustaining the Valley.” Contestants must be current UMFK students, faculty or staff; UMFK graduates; or a current resident of the St. John Valley in Aroostook County or adjacent areas of New Brunswick and Quebec. Contest eligibility and rules and entry forms are available here: http://www.sustainingplaces.org/
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.
The University of Maine at Fort Kent Blake Library Gallery will feature select works from the 2009 production of the wetooktotheroad.com project entitled, “INCIDENTAL CROSSINGS” by artists Fernando J. Vallejo and Darlene Kelly Dumond. The exhibit will be held during the month of November. An opening reception will be held at the UMFK Blake Library Gallery on Friday, November 20 from 3 to 6 p.m. Vallejo and Dumond will be present. The reception is open to the public.