The University of Maine New Media program is teaching digital skills to high school and community college students and staff in a free webinar series. “Knowledge Bites” will explore various technological topics, including how to code an HTML game, create memes with Photoshop, craft 2D animations and more, through hands-on learning activates. New Media program […]
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University of Maine student Rachel Harell appeared in a Today show segment featuring college students from across the U.S. talking about how the pandemic has affected their lives. Harell is a journalism major minoring in psychology and marketing.
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Opera as an art form has been around for more than 400 years, and students and faculty in the UMaine School of Performing Arts were not going to let a pandemic stop their performance from going ahead. That’s why, for the first time ever, the University of Maine Opera Workshop has chosen to present its […]
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In a column in The Conversation, University of Maine associate professor of communications and journalism Michael Socolow noted that proliferation of subscription news distribution platforms such as Substack could sustain elite readership rather than democratizing information.
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Maura Philippone has been awarded a 2020 National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) Scholarship. The competitive merit-based scholarship is awarded to up to three undergraduate senior students nationwide who are active in NSSLHA and will begin their graduate studies in fall following graduation. Philippone graduated summa cum laude in May 2020 from the University […]
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The Bangor Daily News featured a guest column by Rob Glover, a University of Maine associate professor of political science and honors, and Karyn Sporer, an assistant professor of sociology, highlighting the need for drug policy reform and flexibility in treating addiction in Maine. The pair, who are part of the Scholars Strategy Network, highlighted […]
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Phys.org shared a University of Maine news release describing a study by Jim Roscoe, professor of anthropology, and Daniel Sandweiss, professor of anthropology and Quaternary and climate studies, that tested Roscoe’s Power Theory. Using a radiocarbon summed probability distribution (SPD) model, the team found that population size and density influenced political centralization in Peru from […]
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Early populations shifted from quasi-egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies to communities governed by a centralized authority in the middle to late Holocene, but how the transition occurred still puzzles anthropologists. A University of Maine-led group of researchers contend that population size and density served as crucial drivers. Anthropology professor Paul “Jim” Roscoe led the development of Power […]
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An anonymous donor has made a $100,000 gift to create the Wabanaki Student Development and Success Fund at the University of Maine Foundation. The fund will assist Native American students pursuing University of Maine degrees “so that they can graduate as tomorrow’s leaders of their communities.” John Bear Mitchell, Wabanaki Center outreach and student development […]
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Jon Ippolito, a professor of new media at the University of Maine, spoke with News Center Maine about ways to keep children safe while they are online. Children, Ippolito said, should use fake usernames, avoid sharing passwords and personal information, and think twice about allowing apps to use their contacts and the cameras in their […]
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