Robert Glover, an assistant professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “LePage can’t impose immigration rules on sheriffs that violate law, Constitution.” Requiring state and local government agencies to carry out federal mandates violates the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, said Glover. […]
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The Honors College at the University of Maine will present the TIAA 2017–18 Distinguished Honors Graduate Lecture with Sara Morris on Tuesday, Sept. 26. Morris will present “Accounting for Happiness: The Rewards of Unlikely Career Choices, and the Lasting Value of Kindness,” at 3:30 p.m. in Neville Hall, Room 101. The lecture is free and […]
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Robert Glover, an assistant professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on the Pulse Morning Show (WZON AM 620). Glover spoke about the Trump Administration’s recent decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, as well as the work of the Scholars Strategy Network […]
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Stefano Tijerina has been named the first recipient of the Chris Kobrak Fellowship in Canadian Business History. The University of Maine adjunct assistant professor accepted the $10,000 award at the “150 Years of Canadian Business History” conference Sept. 11–12 in Toronto. Tijerina was awarded the fellowship for his in-progress book titled “Navigating Imperial Competition in […]
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Robert Glover, an associate professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Congress must fix Trump’s terrible mistake on DACA.” Glover also is the co-leader of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported on a joint project between the University of Maine and College of the Atlantic to study small- and medium-scale honey and maple syrup production in the state. The three-year project was awarded $498,462 by the United States Department of Agriculture in May. Jessica Leahy, a professor in UMaine’s School of Forest […]
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Three University of Maine undergraduates have received early acceptance to Tufts University School of Medicine through the Maine Track Early Assurance program. Trevor Morin, a microbiology major from Scarborough, Maine; Drew Brooks, a microbiology and music double major from Lyman, Maine; and Austin Steward, a bioengineering major and Honors College student from Colebrook, New Hampshire, […]
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Sarah Harlan-Haughey, an assistant professor of English and honors at the University of Maine, was mentioned in a Missoula Independent article about the University of Montana’s first summer conference on medieval studies. During the conference, Harlan-Haughey led a presentation that compared Icelandic sagas to the stories passed down through her family of homesteaders in Montana, […]
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The Lincoln County News published a University of Maine Darling Marine Center feature article about Abby Shaughnessy, a senior studying marine biology at the University of Maine. Shaughnessy is spending the summer interning at the DMC in Walpole. For her Honors thesis, she partnered with Portland-based Ready Seafood to help make selling lobster overseas more […]
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The University of Maine InterChemNet (ICN) project has purchased crystallography instrumentation that will support opportunities for students in the second-semester general chemistry lab course, CHY 124. Starting in January 2018, the instrumentation will be used in multiweek project- and inquiry-based lab experiments. Crystallography, which uses a single crystal X-ray diffractometer, has been an essential tool […]
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