Arkansas Online reported on inventor Brandon Foshee’s device that aims to help visually impaired and blind people avoid obstacles. Foshee has received about $600,000 in grants from several agencies to develop his Roboglasses, according to the article. Nicholas Giudice, a professor of spatial informatics at the University of Maine, will study the Roboglasses as part […]
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Maine Public interviewed Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, for the report, “Ranked-choice voting education campaigns underway as primaries near.” Maine voters in next month’s state primary will be the first to use ranked-choice voting for state elections, Maine Public reported. According to experts, many voters don’t understand how the […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Robert Glover, an assistant professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine, for an article about Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, who is a Democratic candidate for governor. In this year’s gubernatorial contest, Mills isn’t alone as a state official in the race, according to the […]
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A toddler’s sneaker, a backpack, a copy of “El Diaro de Ana Frank.” These are some of the objects left behind by thousands of people migrating to the United States through the Sonoran Desert. Documentary photographer Michael Hyatt photographed these and other abandoned items to bear witness to a perilous — sometimes fatal — journey: […]
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The University of Maine’s newest graduates “have a key role to play in restoring the high ideals of civil discourse,” according to U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, the speaker at UMaine’s 216th Commencement ceremonies May 12 at Harold Alfond Sports Arena on campus. “Courage, civility, principles and even wit are increasingly rare commodities in our discourse […]
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The Conversation published an opinion piece by Michael Socolow, an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine. The piece, titled “Mad Magazine’s clout may have faded, but its ethos matters more than ever before,” also was distributed by the Associated Press and published by the Los Angeles Times, Smithsonian magazine, The […]
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Amy Blackstone, a professor in the Department of Sociology and the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Much work remains to end workplace harassment.” Blackstone also is a member of the of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, […]
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The Maine State Bicentennial Conference Committee at the University of Maine seeks presentation proposals that explore all aspects of the Maine statehood process and the bicentennial for the event that will be held next spring. The Maine Statehood and Bicentennial Conference will be held May 30–June 1, 2019 on the UMaine campus with a field […]
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Hometown: Windham, Maine Christian Zwirner is a biochemistry major and Spanish minor. The former president of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity will graduate in December 2018. The Senior Skull vice president’s research in Rob Wheeler’s lab focused on the fungus Candida albicans, which annually causes several thousand deaths due to hospital-acquired infection. He won the Frederick […]
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WABI (Channel 5) and News Center Maine reported on a public performance and community conversation about diversity and immigration hosted by University of Maine communication and journalism students and the Maine Multicultural Center. For “Performing ME, Performing US,” students, with the assistance of the MMMC, conducted in-depth story-sharing sessions with new Mainers from various walks […]
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