FARMINGTON -The University of Maine at Farmington’s Symposium Day 2003 will be Wednesday, April 16, at various locations across the campus, beginning at 9 a.m.

The public is welcome at this annual event in which classes are cancelled and the day is set aside to recognize scholarly and creative works by the students and faculty.

The more than 100 presentations will include a discussion by UMF students Alison Duncan, Crystal Hawley, and Marge Adams of Farmington, Christine Mangiapia of Vienna and Shelli-Jo Pellitier of East Waterboro about what they found as they interviewed and listened to women who run nearby businesses.

Ryan Moore of Cape Elizabeth and Pratigya Uphadyaya of Kathmandu, Nepal, will lead a tour of a new Web site, Green Explorations. It has information about upcoming events, the Farmington campus, green buildings and green government.

Students Rebecca Picott of South Berwick and Dennis Wood of Sedgewick will make a PowerPoint presentation about the vocabulary, techniques and stages of financial statement analysis.

Symposium Day also will include student and faculty readings, performances and art displays. Senior art students will display their work in the UMF Art Gallery.

There will be presentations varying from “Hydrogen: The Energy Source of the Future” to “Perspectives on War and Human Life in the Iliad” in the North Dining Hall of the Student Center.

A photo exhibit and English readings will go on all day in Room C-123 in Olsen Student Center.

The entire program and schedule of presentations is available online at http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/~stanciof/.

Printed programs with times and locations of events will be available at the UMF mailroom, which is near the front entrance of the student center.

For more information, people can contact the day’s coordinator, UMF Associate Professor of Physics Paul Stancioff, 778-7371.

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