Shawn Laatsch, president of the International Planetarium Society and director of the University of Maine’s Emera Astronomy Center, was quoted in a Sun Journal article about New Year’s Planetarium in Portland. For 10 years, the University of Southern Maine’s Southworth Planetarium has offered a New Year’s Eve event that features some of their newest and […]
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Amy Blackstone, a professor of sociology at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio program. The show focused on choosing not to have children. Blackstone, a prominent researcher in the child-free movement, runs the blog “We’re {Not} Having a Baby!” with her husband, and wrote the forthcoming book […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the recipients of the 2018–2019 Academic Year Research and Creative Activities Fellowships. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-mentored research. Each fellowship provides a $1,100 award for the student to help cover costs of the project. Funding for […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has named the 2018–2020 Faculty Fellows Assistants. The CUGR Faculty Fellows Program supports faculty efforts toward improving undergraduate research mentoring skills, expanding curricula to include research and scholarship experiences, and developing proposals for further funding specifically involving undergraduate students. Each CUGR Fellow is provided $1,100 to […]
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The University of Maine’s Alice Kelley, an instructor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and a research associate professor with the Climate Change Institute, and Bonnie Newsom, an assistant professor of anthropology, spoke with the Island Journal for an article about Maine shell middens. There are thousands of shell heaps around the coast […]
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The University of Maine will open the 2018 Senior Art Exhibition, “Collective Ground,” with a reception 5:30–8 p.m. Dec. 7 at Lord Hall Gallery. The show, which runs through Feb. 2, features more than 70 works of art, including paintings, drawings, prints, digital paintings/prints and sculptures. The nine studio art majors displaying work produced all […]
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Darren Ranco, a professor of anthropology and chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio program. The show focused on Henry David Thoreau and the new documentary, “Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul,” which airs on Maine Public Television on Dec. 6. […]
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Maine NEW (National Education for Women) Leadership, now in its 11th year, is accepting applications for undergraduate women to participate in a six-day residential, nonpartisan training program that focuses on civic and political leadership. Maine NEW Leadership provides students a unique opportunity to build confidence and leadership skills through experiential training and provides a teaching […]
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Bowdoin College interviewed Stacy Doore, research manager at the VEMI Lab at the University of Maine and a visiting assistant professor of computer science at Bowdoin College, about two grants she recently received for her research. Doore is collaborating with UMaine faculty members Nicholas Giudice, lab director at VEMI and a professor of spatial informatics, […]
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VillageSoup advanced a talk by Paul Holman, an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Maine and adjunct professor at the Naval War College. Holman will speak on “China in Africa: A New Kind of Colonialism?” at the Camden Public Library at 7 p.m. Dec. 18. The talk, which is offered as a […]
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