The Free Press advanced an online presentation from Sarah Harlan-Haughey, an associate professor of English at the University of Maine, called “Fact, Fiction and Fandom: The Virtual Reality of Late Medieval Rymes of Robin Hood.” The Rockland Public LIbrary will host the lecture at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 12 via Zoom. Harlan-Haughey will introduce the tradition […]
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Artificial intelligence helps scientists make discoveries, but not everyone can understand how it reaches its conclusions. One UMaine computer scientist is developing deep neural networks that explain their findings in ways users can comprehend, applying his work to biology, medicine and other fields. Interpretable machine learning, or AI that creates explanations for the findings it […]
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Claudia Cummings earned her Bachelor of Arts in social work from the University of Maine in May 2020. She knows her success at UMaine can be attributed, at least in part, to her personal engagement during her undergraduate years. But she also learned that before changing the world students must find their niche. After changing […]
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COVID-19 restrictions in Maine’s K–12 schools have transformed the way that teaching looks — particularly for the state’s many music programs. With students unable to play their instruments together in-person, music educators have had to get creative to teach their students technique from home. That’s why Philip Edelman, assistant professor of music education at the […]
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Henry Munson, a University of Maine professor emeritus of anthropology and author of “Islam and Revolution in the Middle East,” will offer a free Zoom presentation, How the US Turned Iraq into Iran’s Client State: The Unintended Consequences of a Myopic Foreign Policy, 4:30–6 p.m. Nov. 5. The talk, which will highlight U.S. actions that […]
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Mark Brewer, University of Maine professor of political science, noted in a Portland Press Herald story that because of ranked choice voting, residents will likely not know who won all of Maine’s political races on election night. In a separate Portland Press Herald story shared by Centralmaine.com, Brewer described Maine’s Senate race as the most […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a column by Michael Delorge and Julia Whinston, University of Maine undergraduate students and UMaine UVote ambassadors, about youth voting. In a column invited by the Scholars Strategy Network, the pair argued that young voters have the motivation and the numbers to elevate issues such as college debt, climate change […]
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Mark Brewer, a professor of political science at the University of Maine, spoke with the Associated Press about Maine’s ranked choice voting system and voter turnout in Maine. “If there’s one thing that people can agree on, advocates of the progressive left or the far right, I think they agree the stakes are incredibly high […]
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At a recent University of Maine Foundation virtual Homecoming event, University of Maine benefactors Dan ’63 and Betty Churchill shared their intentions to make estate gifts estimated at up to $6.5 million to benefit the University of Maine. Their gifts will endow two $1.5 million School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA) professorships, one Climate […]
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University of Maine Professor of Political Science Mark Brewer talked with the Bangor Daily News about the expected voter turnout on Tuesday, predicting that the number of younger voters is likely to equal or come close to the number of older voters casting a ballot.
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