The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine will welcome Vincent Sherry, a leading scholar of modernism and the literature of World War I, to campus Nov. 15 and 16. Sherry will deliver a lecture on “Modernism in Wartime: Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, Poetries” at 3 p.m. Nov. 16 in Hill Auditorium, Barrows […]
Read more
John Patrick’s classic play “The Curious Savage” is the latest offering from the University of Maine School of Performing Arts, opening Friday, Nov. 9 at Hauck Auditorium. The production runs for seven performances: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 9–10 and Nov. 16–17; 2 p.m. Nov. 11 and 18; and 10 a.m. Nov. 15. Tickets are $10 and […]
Read more
The University of Maine will host “Equity, Access and Inclusion: A World Usability Day Event” 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Nov. 8. World Usability Day, established in 2005, is a day that brings together communities of professional, industrial, educational, citizen and government groups to promote the values of usability, accessibility and universal design to ensure that services […]
Read more
The University of Maine Office of Research Development will present “Grants, Contracts, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)” on Nov. 8. The workshop, which will be held at 2:30 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union, will include a presentation by Terry Yoo, an associate professor in the UMaine School of Computing […]
Read more
The Portland Press Herald spoke with Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, for the article, “When it comes to casting ballots, some Mainers elect not to.” In the last midterm, Maine had the highest turnout of any state, about 58.5 percent of registered voters. Still, there are pockets of disillusion, […]
Read more
Fiddlehead Focus reported members of the Pride of Madawaska Band recently performed for thousands of fans at the University of Maine’s Harold Alfond Sports Stadium. Twenty-five students joined the Pride of Maine Black Bear Marching Band for a halftime performance during an Oct. 6 football game. Valley Unified music teacher Taylor Martin, director of the […]
Read more
The Portland Press Herald published a poem by Jennifer Moxley, a professor of English at the University of Maine. “After Turning the Clocks Back” appeared as part of “Deep Water: Maine Poems,” a series edited and introduced by Portland poet Gibson Fay-LeBlanc and produced in collaboration with the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.
Read more
Maine writers Paul Doiron and Kristen Lindquist will be the featured guests of the third installment of the Framing Maine conversation series at the University of Maine on Nov. 8. “Framing Maine Three: An Eye for Detail,” will take place at 7 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall. Doiron and Lindquist, who […]
Read more
The University of Maine will recognize veterans with a week of events to coincide with Veterans Day, Nov. 11. The activities are coordinated by the UMaine Office of Veterans Education and Transition Services (VETS) and UMaine Veterans Association. UMaine Veterans Week activities will include the unveiling of the Digital Book of Memory at 11 a.m. […]
Read more
A choral concert and poetry reading commemorating World War I will be held Nov. 9 at the University of Maine and Nov. 11 at the Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono. “We Are the Dead: The Legacy of Loss” is the first set of performance events in the UMaine Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s […]
Read more