The Bangor Daily News advanced a webinar titled “Fighting Time: A talk with Isaac Knapper and Amy Banks” at 6 p.m. April 12. This discussion will explore the 1979 murder of University of Maine professor Ronald Banks in New Orleans. Banks’ daughter, Amy, and Knapper, the man wrongly imprisoned for 13 years for the crime, […]
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The University of Maine, in partnership with The University of Maine Foundation, is soliciting nominations for the 2021 Geddes W. Simpson Lecture. This endowed lecture series facilitates campus visits and presentations by prominent speakers with expertise at the interface of science and history. In the past the series has hosted a broad range of speakers […]
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University of Maine researchers Richard Corey and Nicholas Giudice spoke to The INDATA Project at Easterseals Crossroads on its podcast, “Assistive Technology Update,” about their upcoming smartphone app that provides navigational assistance so people with disabilities and seniors can enjoy ride-sharing and ride-hailing with self-driving cars. The co-founders of the Virtual Environments and Multimodal Interaction […]
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The Bangor Daily News, the Penobscot Bay Pilot, The Irregular and Centralmaine.com shared a University of Maine news release highlighting the juried student art exhibition, “Here and There,” which runs April 2–30 in the Lord Hall Art Gallery at UMaine. More information about the exhibition is online.
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Registration is open for an innovative five-week college STEM research course for qualified high school students in grades 10–12, offered by the University of Maine June 28–July 30 at the UMaine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Introduction to Integrated Science and Career Exploration (INT 188), a three-credit college course, will meet 8 a.m.–noon Monday–Wednesday. Qualified high […]
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The University of Maine Department of Art will present the 2021 Juried Student Art Exhibition, “Here and There,” that features work by current students in studio art courses. The exhibition will be on display April 2–30 in Lord Hall Gallery. The venue provides an opportunity for undergraduate students at all levels to showcase their work. […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a story by Kate Fogg, a third-year journalism student at the University of Maine, highlighting the impact of the pandemic on nursing students at UMaine and other universities.
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Centralmaine.com, the Penobscot Bay Pilot, the Sun Journal and Bangor Daily News advanced a talk highlighting the work of the Maine Shellfish Learning Network (MSLN) at 3 p.m. April 12. The Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine will host the event, “Strengthening Learning, Leadership and Equity in Maine and Wabanaki Wild Shellfisheries,” […]
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Susan Smith, director of the Intermedia Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Maine and student Anna Martin spoke with WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) about the traveling “Creativity vs. COVID: Ending the Pandemic for Good” campaign initiated by the Center for Artistic Activism and UMaine’s “Creativity vs. COVID” art initiative. Both […]
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A Bangor Daily News op-ed denouncing increasing donations of unusable items to charity thrift shops cited research by Brie Berry, a University of Maine Ph.D. student, and Cindy Isenhour, a UMaine associate professor and faculty fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions.
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