The Reverse Career Fair held at the Wellness Center in Caribou and hosted by Aroostook Aspirations Initiative (AAI), University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI), and University of Maine at Fort Kent (UMFK), was hailed a huge success.
University of Maine at Fort Kent’s newest expert on lichens, Professor Dr. Peter Nelson, is part of a team that in April will study the strange organisms in a rare oasis location in the middle of a dry Chilean desert.
Ten students from the University of Maine at Fort Kent recently traveled to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, including two students from the area Chandra Von Merta of Limestone and Devon Cote of Connor.
Lise Pelletier, director of the Acadian Archives acadiennes at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, taught the history of Acadians and of the St. John Valley at a training workshop for local teachers last Friday at the Archives.
Three Aroostook high schools will meet in Fox Auditorium on the University of Maine at Fort Kent campus for the Class B Northern Maine Regional Drama Festival on Saturday, March 8, starting at 1 p.m.
With scholarship season just beginning for many students in Aroostook, there is a very special opportunity available for 16 County seniors. Aroostook Aspirations Initiative’s Gauvin County Scholarship opened Feb. 1.
The support of the county’s four colleges to an innovative and relatively new region-wide program will extend from one year to two the scholarship support granted to graduating seniors from each of northern Maine’s 16 high schools annually.
The Maine Community Foundation has announced the Maine Policy Scholars 2013-14 class. One student from each campus of the University of Maine system has been selected to pursue a year-long program of applied research in the area of Maine public policy.
The Acadian Archives acadiennes of the University of Maine at Fort Kent will host a presentation on St. John Valley architecture by Don Cyr on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Nadeau Hall teleconference room. The presentation is free and open to the public.
The Acadian Archives acadiennes of the University of Maine at Fort Kent will host a presentation on St. John Valley architecture by Don Cyr on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Nadeau Hall teleconference room.
