Four University of Maine System students gave their final presentations Nov. 8 as Maine Policy Scholars. The scholarship recipients presented their research to four panelists, friends and family, and the broader UMS community. The Maine Policy Scholars program was established by Peter Cox and supported by many donors. It engages UMS students in the public […]
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Mount Desert Islander mentioned the University of Maine in an article about a change in leadership at the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Raney Bench will be the next executive director, while Tim Garrity, who has led the organization since 2010, will assume a position as the society’s historian, the article states. The organization plans […]
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The University of Maine’s School of Performing Arts presents “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” with opening night on Nov. 15 at Hauck Auditorium. Fifteen-year-old Christopher has an extraordinary brain. He is exceptional at math but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, […]
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Speaking in Maine,” a public affairs lecture series hosted by Maine Public, ran the University of Maine’s 2019 William S. Cohen Lecture. “Defense and Diplomacy in an Uncertain World” featured former Secretary of Defense Cohen and former Secretary of State John Kerry.
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Jarred Haynes of Westbrook, Maine had the experience of a lifetime this summer studying abroad in Kerambitan, Bali, in Indonesia. The sophomore anthropology major studied through the School for International Training (SIT) Biodiversity and Conservation Studies program, which focused on biodiversity, resource-use patterns, and conservation initiatives in the surrounding community. Haynes, who also has an […]
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Medical Xpress printed a University of Maine article about Katrina Daigle’s study that found mothers being treated for opioid-dependency showed impaired responsiveness and sensitivity to their babies, compared to mothers not dependent on opioids but similar in socioeconomic and lifestyle factors. The deficits were associated with reduced oxytocin (OT) release. OT, which is made in […]
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Amy Blackstone’s article “Sexual Harassment in Academia and Beyond: Causes, Consequences, and Change” was published in the September/October 2019 issue of ASA Footnotes. Blackstone writes that “knowledge from decades of sociological research helps us understand — and change — the reality of sexual harassment in academic workplaces and beyond.” Allies have an important role to […]
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World Politics Review listed Michael Socolow’s “The Trouble with TikTok” piece in its “Top Reads on China” roundup. WPR newsletter and engagement editor Benjamin Wilhelm wrote that Socolow, a University of Maine associate professor of communication and journalism, took American journalists to task for their uncritical coverage of TikTok — and for their use of […]
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“Uncaged: Art from the Border,” a collection of works created by children in detention at the Tornillo, Texas camp, opens Nov. 6 at the University of Maine. The exhibit is open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays through Nov. 22 in the APPE Space in the IMRC Center, and is free and open to the […]
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Mothers being treated for opioid-dependency showed impaired responsiveness and sensitivity to their babies, compared to mothers not dependent on opioids but similar in socioeconomic and lifestyle factors. The opioid-dependent mothers’ sensitivity deficits were associated with reduced oxytocin (OT) release. OT, which is made in the hypothalamus of the brain, is normally released during mothers’ interactions […]
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