Award-winning filmmaker Vanessa McNeal will host a free public screening of her 2018 documentary “Gridshock” at 5 p.m. Oct. 24 in Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall as part of Domestic Violence Awareness month. In the film, McNeal, a survivor of sexual violence, explores the underpinnings of the thriving sex-trafficking industry, a global problem taking root […]
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Virginia Hugo-Vidal had the opportunity this summer to study abroad in Kosovo through the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Kosovo Peace and Conflict Summer Program. The sophomore international affairs and political science double major, of Buxton, Maine, spent a month in Kosovo, taking classes and attending seminars on topics like the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, […]
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Registration begins Oct. 28 for University of Maine’s Winter Session that runs Dec. 27, 2019 through Jan. 16, 2020. The more than 40 online courses include several general education requirements, as well as some upper-level courses. Winter Session courses are intensive in nature, with students earning three credits in three weeks. For more information, including […]
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Creating visions for nature and people that tackle the linked sustainability challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and human development and translating them into timely solutions is the focus of the 2019 Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability at the University of Maine. E.J. Milner-Gulland, Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford, will present […]
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Melissa Garand of Manchester, Maine interned abroad in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria this summer, working full time as a graduate international student services intern at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG). “As with many others my age, I grew up during the years of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and general American involvement in the greater Middle […]
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VillageSoup reported Rachel Snell, a lecturer in the University of Maine Honors College, will speak about the use of community cookbooks by women in politics Oct. 2 at Union Historical Society. Beginning at 7 p.m., Snell will explain how Margaret Chase Smith’s campaign for the Republican nomination relied on food-related tactics developed by generations of […]
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The University of Maine Honors College recently took 25 incoming Honors students on an inaugural outdoor orientation experience on Hurricane Island Aug. 28–30. The Hurricane Island Center for Science and Leadership, located off of the coast of Rockland, Maine in Penobscot Bay, hosts science education and leadership programs for schools and organizations from around the […]
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This academic year, three University of Maine students will be learning about state policy through direct engagement with the policymaking process as part of an innovative new fellowship supported by the Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation (ENACT) at Brandeis University. Political science majors Kevin Fitzpatrick of Damariscotta and Harley Rogers of Lincoln, and Elijah […]
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The Princeton Review’s 2020 edition of its annual college guide again cites UMaine as among the best 385 colleges nationwide. The colleges and universities profiled in this year’s “The Best 385 Colleges” represent nearly 13 percent of America’s 3,000 four-year colleges, according to Princeton Review. The company chooses the colleges for the book based on […]
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The University of Maine recognized 2,330 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the spring 2019 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,649 are from Maine, 623 are from 35 other states and 58 are from 30 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for […]
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