Caroline Bicks, a professor of English at the University of Maine, co-wrote a humor column for McSweeney’s with Michelle Ephraim, an associate professor in humanities at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The column was titled “I am Lady Macbeth, and your Facebook post about your kid’s early acceptance to Harvard really pisses me off.”
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The Emera Astronomy Center at the University of Maine is offering free guided meditation sessions in the M.F. Jordan Planetarium to help students and faculty de-stress during finals week. Participants can experience an amazing sunset as they travel from the Grand Canyon to the North Pole, then relax under a night sky filled with stars […]
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The intersection of art and technology in the work of Rufus Porter, founder of Scientific American magazine, is the focus of a new exhibition at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, co-curated by a University of Maine faculty member. Justin Wolff, professor of art history in the UMaine Department of Art, co-curated the exhibition, “Rufus […]
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East Asia Forum published Kristin Vekasi’s column titled “Weaponised interdependence and the Japanese private sector.” Vekasi is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Policy and International Affairs. “From trade barriers to financial sanctions, it’s increasingly common to see economic interdependence deployed for political goals,” she wrote. “This type of […]
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Judith Rosenbaum, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, and Liz Theriault, a UMaine student and opinion editor of the UMaine student newspaper The Maine Campus, were recent guests on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show’s topic was “cancel culture,” political correctness and social media.
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Amy Blackstone, a professor of sociology at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on WBUR’s “Endless Thread” podcast, which features stories “found in the vast ecosystem of online communities called Reddit.” This episode of the podcast focused on the childfree movement.
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The University of Maine 2019 senior art exhibition “16 Minds” will open with a reception from 5:30–7 p.m. Dec. 6 at Lord Hall Gallery. The show, which runs through Feb. 7, features more than 86 works by 16 artists — Olivia Bradstreet, Danny Bridges, HR Buzzell, Cheryl Coffin, Sam Dowe, Kate Finnemore, Kendra Green, Katelyn […]
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Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, was interviewed on German public broadcasting radio station Deutschlandfunk. The report was about journalism on Tik Tok, a video-sharing app.
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Several shows at the University of Maine’s Collins Center for the Arts were included in a Bangor Daily News roundup of holiday shows in eastern Maine. UMaine’s choral ensembles and student orchestra will perform in the annual Yuletide Celebration at 3 p.m. Dec. 8 in the CCA. A touring show from the Nebraska Theatre Caravan […]
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Aydrea Walden will bring her one-woman show, “The Oreo Experience: A Total Whitey Trapped in a Black Chick’s Body,” to the University of Maine on Dec. 9. The 8 p.m. show in Minsky Recital Hall is free and open to the public, and is based on a blog of the same name, which has been […]
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