The University of Maine recognized 2,572 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2019 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,754 are from Maine, 743 are from 30 other states and 75 are from 31 countries other than the U.S. Listed below are students who received Dean’s List honors for […]
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Slate published an opinion piece by Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, titled “Does Football Bear Responsibility for a Chiefs Legend’s 1980 Murder-Suicide?”
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WiSTEMM (Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) will host a faculty lunch honoring the 2019 Presidential Award winners Feb. 12 at the University of Maine. Attendees can celebrate and learn from award winners 1–3 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union. Award recipients are: Distinguished Maine Professor Award — Sandra Caron, […]
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Portland Press Herald reported the Emera Astronomy Center at the University of Maine will be a partner in the Maine Library Telescope program. The program, designed to teach library visitors how to use a telescope, has reached 60,000 Mainers since 2012. This summer, 12 state parks will use a $7,300 Outdoor Heritage Fund grant to […]
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The Maine Press Association is awarding scholarships to four University of Maine students and one University of Southern Maine student. The UMaine students are: Hailey Bryant of Gorham, a senior and part-time employee of the Bangor Daily News; Olivia Shipsey of Bath, a senior and editor-in-chief of the Maine Campus; Leela Stockley of Chester, a […]
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Sympathizers of the Islamic State and the Levant (ISIL) use Twitter to promote justifications of mass casualty violence perpetrated against civilians by the terrorist group, according to a new study led by Karyn Sporer, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Maine. University of Nebraska at Omaha researchers Michael Logan, Gina Ligon and […]
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Justin Wolff, professor of art history at the University of Maine, appeared on Maine Calling to talk about Rufus Porter and the Porter exhibit he co-curated at Bowdoin College. Porter (1792–1884), was an artist, inventor, polymath, musician and founder of “Scientific American” magazine. He gained fame as a mural painter; his art often featured scenes […]
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A number of University of Maine groups and venues are mentioned in a Bangor Daily News story about affordable art, music and theater offerings in the area. They included the Collins Center for the Arts, Minsky Recital Hall, the UMaine School of Performing Arts, the University of Maine Museum of Art, Hudson Museum, Page Farm […]
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University of Maine sociology professor Steven Barkan was quoted in a recent Bangor Daily News editorial titled “With funding for gun research, safety measures should be a priority for study.” As part of a $1.4 trillion spending plan approved in December, Congress — for the first time in 20 years — approved federal funding for […]
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Justin Wolff will be among the guests to talk about the exhibit “Rufus Porter’s Curious World: Art and Invention in America, 1815–1860” at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art at 1 p.m. Jan. 29 on Maine Public’s Maine Calling. The University of Maine professor of art history co-curated the exhibition and co-edited and contributed to […]
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