The University of Maine is welcoming its largest incoming class — 2,300 students — with Maine Hello on Aug. 26, in preparation for the start of classes for the fall semester on Monday. Arriving on campus, members of the Class of 2020 and their families are being greeted by hundreds of UMaine community volunteers who […]
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Art created by University of Maine graduate student Jill Pelto is featured on the cover of an international climate report compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Pelto’s environmental artwork appears on the front and back of the State of the Climate in 2015, an international, peer-reviewed publication released each summer as a supplement […]
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University of Maine graduate student Jill Peto was included in the National Geographic series, “20 Under 30: The Next Generation of National Park Leaders.” The feature on Pelto, titled “This artist turns dull data into art — and a call to action,” focuses on her environmental artwork that convey climate change in North Cascades National […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “Skowhegan schools keep ‘Indians’ mascot and stand for what they should oppose,” by Andrew Tomer, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Maine, and Jordan LaBouff, an assistant professor of psychology and honors at UMaine.
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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 “The Republican convention’s race problem.” Glover is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to address public challenges […]
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Recent graduate Noelle Leon-Palmer says the University of Maine provided her a rewarding college experience in the classroom studying biology and writing an honors thesis, as well as on the field as a member of the women’s soccer team. Leon-Palmer, of Ajax, a town in Ontario, Canada, graduated in May with a bachelor’s degree in […]
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The University of Maine recognized 2,267 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the spring 2016 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,721 are from Maine, 483 are from 32 other states and 63 are from 27 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for […]
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Robert Glover, assistant professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine, and recent UMaine graduate Grace Kiffney, published an Op-Ed article in the Bangor Daily News about asylum seekers’ access to resources and general assistance in Maine. According to the article, this year, the U.S. immigration court backlog hit 474,322 cases. In […]
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Robert Glover, an assistant professor of political science and honors at the University of Maine, was featured in the “Ask the Experts” section of a WalletHub study about 2016’s metro areas that most and least resemble the United States. Glover said recent research suggests that diversity can be important in growing one’s local economy, particularly […]
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Robert Glover, an assistant professor of political science and honors at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on “The Maine Show,” a podcast hosted by Bangor City Councilor Ben Sprague. In the episode, “A Closer Look at Bangor,” Glover and Bangor Daily News journalist Christopher Burns spoke about the city’s future. The discussion […]
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