Jacquelyn Gill stood entranced inside a permafrost cave in Siberia. Woolly mammoth tusks protruded through glistening walls. A lion cub, dead for 30,000 or more years, appeared as if it was napping. “In those 30 minutes (inside the cave), I had the opportunity to get closer to the landscape I’ve devoted my career to understanding […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the 2019 CUGR and Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) summer fellowship winners. Undergraduate proposals will be awarded $3,000 for MSGC and $3,300 for CUGR. Graduate projects will receive $6,000 each during the summer semester. Funding is provided by the UMaine Office of the Vice […]
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News Center Maine, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) covered the fourth annual University of Maine Student Symposium April 10 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students presented their research findings in the arts, health care, science, engineering, education and other topics to more than 1,000 attendees. “Basically […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported four student-athletes are among this year’s Outstanding Graduating Students at the University of Maine. Vincent Eze, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was named the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Education and Human Development. The child development and family relations and sociology double major is a forward on the men’s […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and Republican Journal reported registration is open for the World Climate Negotiations from 5–8 p.m. May 9 at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The free, interactive simulation will be led by Anna McGinn and Will Kochtitzky, UMaine graduate students who attended the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference in […]
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The New York Times published a letter to the editor by Steven Barkan, a professor of sociology at the University of Maine. In the letter, Barkan responded to a Times article about the politics surrounding the death penalty.
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The Ellsworth American and Bangor Daily News covered the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s fifth Masterworks concert of the 2018–19 season on April 7. The concert was a celebration of American composers, according to the articles. The event also was the symphony’s annual collaboration with the University Singers and Oratorio Society, two University of Maine groups, and “the […]
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How can music, enabled by new technological tools and scientific concepts, increase awareness of self and connection with others, promote lifelong health and well-being, and build stronger communities and societies? These questions will be the focus of Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar Tod Machover’s free, public lecture “From Robotic Operas to City Symphonies and Beyond” […]
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Ten undergraduates have been named 2019 Outstanding Graduating Students at the University of Maine. Among them is Anna Eliza Souza Cunha, the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, and the 2019 salutatorian. The Outstanding Graduating Students will be honored at UMaine’s 217th Commencement in Harold Alfond Sports Arena May 11. […]
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Vincent Eze, of Lagos, Nigeria, has been named the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Education and Human Development. Eze is double-majoring in child development and family relations, and in sociology, with a concentration in individual and family studies. He is a forward on the men’s basketball team, and received both Rising Star […]
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