As the data science field continues to generate more jobs and create new research and economic development opportunities, educators have decided to teach it in high schools. Many of the materials and tools they use, however, are inaccessible and fail to meet the needs of students with disabilities, impeding their access to data science careers. […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts will present an on-demand virtual production of its final spring 2021 show, William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” filmed in the Lyle E. Littlefield Ornamentals Trial Garden on the UMaine campus and streaming online from April 28 to May 9. “Twelfth Night,” one of Shakespeare’s best-known romantic comedies, centers […]
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The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine has selected four students to join the center as undergraduate research fellows for the 2021–22 academic year. History major Luke Miller, sociology student Sabrina Paetow, Spanish major and legal studies minor Stephanie Tillotson, and non-traditional nursing student Heather Webb will join current fellows […]
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A Bangor Daily News column by Evie Clement, a communication and psychology student at the University of Maine, calls for supporting LD 967, which would shift the response to opioid use from punishment to supporting those who are addicted.
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Jon Ippolito, professor of new media, and new media alumnus John P. Bell presented a talk on how museums can engage a remote audience with crowdsourcing. Their talk, “The Post-Pandemic Makeover of Museums,” was part of the virtual international conference, Art, Museums and Digital Cultures, April 22–23, 2021, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, museumdigitalcultures.weebly.com.
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Refrigerators tell us when we’re out of juice. Digital assistants schedule appointments and alert us to the weather forecast. Driverless cars get us into tight parallel parking spaces. Today, many of us increasingly rely on devices, apps and artificial intelligence in our daily lives. How can technology be designed to do the most good? How […]
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The Daily Mail spoke with Darren Ranco, a University of Maine associate professor of anthropology and director of Native American Programs, about a new study which shows that Indigenous people have successfully managed biodiversity for thousands of years. “These findings have particular salience for contemporary Indigenous rights and self-determination,” Ranco said. Lab Manager also reported […]
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Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, linked press freedom to achieving justice in the George Floyd murder case in a column in The Conversation.
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Darren Ranco says Indigenous peoples should be part of land use decisions, including whether to expand the quarantine zone for the emerald ash borer in northern Maine. “We have to be at the table because proof is in the pudding,” says the University of Maine associate professor of anthropology, chair of Native American Programs, and […]
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Mainebiz reported on a panel discussion of autonomous vehicle technologies hosted by the University of Maine’s Virtual Environments and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory. Panelists, including VEMI Lab co-founders Richard Corey and Nicholas Giudice, and director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Jonathan Rubin noted that autonomous vehicles will contribute to the live and work […]
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