Award-winning filmmaker Vanessa McNeal will host a free public screening of her 2018 documentary “Gridshock” at 5 p.m. Oct. 24 in Hill Auditorium in Barrows Hall as part of Domestic Violence Awareness month. In the film, McNeal, a survivor of sexual violence, explores the underpinnings of the thriving sex-trafficking industry, a global problem taking root […]
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Misquotations and quotations made without historical context unfairly paint two pioneers in hypertension investigators as flawed in their thinking, according to two University of Maine researchers. Merrill Elias, emeritus professor of psychology and emeritus cooperating professor in the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, and Amanda Goodell, research associate in psychology, have published a […]
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The Boothbay Register advanced Liam Riordan’s bicentennial talk for the Coastal Senior College. The University of Maine history professor will discuss “Brainstorming the State Bicentennial: Past and Present Perspectives” 2–4 p.m. Oct. 29, at the Camden Public Library. His presentation will explore in words, maps and other illustrations, the long statehood process in Maine that […]
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Penobscot Bay Pilot ran a University of Maine media release about three students named 2019–2020 Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows at the University of Maine — Sarah Penney of Thomaston, Noah Loveless of Cumberland, and Matthew Ryckman of Corning, New York. Fellows are ambassadors of humanities for their peers, the campus and […]
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The University of Maine Office of Research Compliance will hold a Responsible Conduct of Research training 5–8:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in Hill Auditorium, Engineering Science Research Building. The session is for undergraduate students participating in research sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and/or the U.S. Department of Agriculture—National Institute […]
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Virginia Hugo-Vidal had the opportunity this summer to study abroad in Kosovo through the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Kosovo Peace and Conflict Summer Program. The sophomore international affairs and political science double major, of Buxton, Maine, spent a month in Kosovo, taking classes and attending seminars on topics like the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, […]
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Registration begins Oct. 28 for University of Maine’s Winter Session that runs Dec. 27, 2019 through Jan. 16, 2020. The more than 40 online courses include several general education requirements, as well as some upper-level courses. Winter Session courses are intensive in nature, with students earning three credits in three weeks. For more information, including […]
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The University of Maine’s School of Performing Arts brings Neil Simon’s “Rumors” to the Al Cyrus Pavilion Theatre beginning Friday, Oct.18. The show is the first mainstage production of the SPA 2019–20 season, and will run for seven performances: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18–19 and Oct. 25–26, 2 p.m. Oct. 20 and 27, and 10 a.m. […]
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The Public News Service advanced Madeline Sayet’s Oct. 17 “Indigenous Shakespeares” free, public talk at 4:30 p.m. in the Fernald APPE space in the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center. Sayet, executive director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program and a Libra Visiting Diversity Professor at the University of Maine, will discuss why […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on World Languages Day celebrated Oct. 11 at the University of Maine. Students from Bangor and Orono high schools attended the annual French and Spanish immersion event hosted by UMaine’s Department of Modern Languages and Classics in collaboration with the Foreign Language Association of Maine (FLAME). Students participated in a culture […]
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