Robert Glover, an assistant professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled “Trump wants a huge giveaway for the private prison industry.” Glover also is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across […]
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Members of the University of Maine community are invited to celebrate the differences that contribute to the campus and surrounding areas during Diversity Week and Islamic Awareness Week, March 27–31. Highlights of Diversity Week, which is put on by the Office of Multicultural Student Life, include a panel discussion and book talk. “Can We Really […]
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Donations are being sought to purchase food stuffs for Hungry 100K: Maine Day Meal Pack-out at the University of Maine May 3. In meal pack-out events, campus and community volunteers pack meals that are then given to food banks and community organizations that feed the hungry. The goal of the May 3 event, organized by […]
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Kathleen Ellis, an adjunct assistant professor in the University of Maine’s Honors College, will teach a poetry workshop in March at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, The Courier-Gazette reported. Ellis, who also is a lecturer in UMaine’s English department, is an award-winning author of five collections of poetry. Her most recent work is “Narrow […]
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Abstract submissions for the 2017 University of Maine Student Symposium on April 24 are now being accepted. The UMaine Student Symposium, a campuswide celebration of achievement in student research and creative activity, will be held at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor from 8 a.m.–6 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the […]
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Brady Davis, a University of Maine senior in the Maine Business School and Honors College, was awarded a Mitchell Scholarship upon graduating from Freeport High School in 2013. At UMaine, Davis became involved with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions by way of the Honors College’s Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative project, […]
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The University of Maine recognized 2,298 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2016 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,714 are from Maine, 523 are from 31 other states and 61 are from 27 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for […]
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In honor of Martin Luther King Jr., members of the University of Maine community will pack an estimated 40,000 meals for distribution to local food pantries on Jan. 21. The project is a partnership among the UMaine Bodwell Center for Service and Volunteerism, Honors College and Office of Multicultural Student Life, as well as the […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on a presentation made to the Bangor City Council by University of Maine Honors College student Jaymi Thibault. For her honors thesis, Thibault studied the city’s ongoing outreach efforts and assess how residents access information from the government. Working with the city, the political science major from Lisbon developed a survey […]
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Effective communication with residents is crucial for many municipal governments, including the city of Bangor. Yet with many new tools such as social media and web-based communications, as well as more traditional methods, it can often be difficult to know what is working. This year, University of Maine Honors College student Jaymi Thibault worked with […]
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