FARMINGTON – The University of Maine at Farmington’s fourth annual Celebration of Service Learning and Civic Engagement will be held at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, March 29, at the North Dining Hall B and C, Olsen Student Center, sponsored by the UMF Office of Service-Learning.

The celebration is intended to raise awareness of the impact of UMF’s service-learning and/or civic engagement courses and to honor and recognize the university’s faculty and students involved.

UMF student Alyce Cavanaugh will be recognized for receiving the Maine Campus Compact’s Heart and Soul Award.

Maine Campus Compact, a group of 19 colleges that embrace the concept of service-learning and civic engagement, selects six Maine college students each year who have been involved in turning their campuses and communities into places of democracy.

The students have raised their voices on issues of local and global importance through civic engagement efforts and have demonstrated leadership through their successful involvement of others in their innovative approaches to social, educational, environmental, health, economic and/or legal issues facing their communities.

Cavanaugh will receive the award at the Maine Campus Compact award ceremony, which is scheduled to take place on April 5 at the State House in Augusta.

UMF student Chelsea Goulart will be recognized for receiving Maine Campus Compact’s Pillars Award, which is an annual award given to students who are seen as pillars of their campuses and communities by supporting the civic efforts of others and taking leadership roles in addressing and finding solutions to issues that face their communities.

In addition, Grace Eason, associate professor of science and science education, and Maryli Tiemann, program director for the Maine Campus Compact, will speak about the sustainability of students at UMF and nationally.

For more information, contact Lucia Swallow, director of UMF office of service learning, at 778-7037 or [email protected].