University of Maine intermedia students are creating and sharing art that advocates for COVID-19 vaccination and equitable distribution of doses. In an awareness campaign led by Intermedia MFA Program Director Susan Smith, about 20 graduate and undergraduate students have been developing various media that reinforce the hardships of the pandemic and encourage spectators to help […]
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The Portsmouth Herald promoted an online presentation by Liam Riordan, a University of Maine professor of history, to be held at 7:30 p.m. March 25. In “Commemorating Maine Statehood: What Can We Learn from the Bicentennial?” Riordan will explore the issues that influenced the movement for statehood, including some that remain today. More information about […]
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The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host a panel discussion led by Darren Ranco about the Land Back movement and the future of land relations in Maine 3–4 p.m. on Monday, March 29. Ranco will be joined by John Banks, Lucas St. Clair and Peter Forbes […]
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Maine Public interviewed Kreg Ettenger, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maine and director of the Maine Studies and Maine Folklife Center, and Michael Socolow, associate professor of communication and journalism and director of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, for a “Maine Calling” program about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted society and its […]
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Sanibel-Captiva advanced a Holocaust virtual rememberance series of educational Zoom sessions featuring Phillip Silver, professor of music, piano and musicology at the University of Maine, among other speakers. Silver will give his talk, “Music as Resistance in the Holocaust,” at 11 a.m. April 15. Chavurat Shalom of Southwest Florida is hosting the series.
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Mollie Ruben, an assistant professor of psychology and director of the Emotion, Pain and Interpersonal Communication Lab at the University of Maine, spoke with the BBC World News and ABC News for a story about the impact of face coverings on our perceptions of strangers. Ruben conducted a study asking 1,000 participants to rate the […]
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Amy Blackstone, a University of Maine professor of sociology and author of “Childfree by Choice,” was interviewed by CNBC Make It for a story about the challenges of raising children and declines in parental happiness that occur about a year after the birth of a child.
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The Bangor Daily News, the Sun Journal and Centralmaine.com promoted a roundtable discussion sponsored by the University of Maine Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at 3 p.m. March 29 on Zoom. “The Land Back Movement and the Future of Land Relations in the Dawnland” will focus on the future of land relations in Maine. Darren […]
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WVII (Channel 7) talked with Pauleena MacDougall, director of the Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine, about why Irish immigrants settled in Bangor, and the history of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.
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The Bangor Daily News advanced the annual Poets/Speak event 4–5:15 p.m. April 1 on Zoom. Kathleen Ellis, a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Maine, will emcee the event, which is sponsored by the Bangor Public Library and UMaine’s Honors College. Participants can register online.
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