Kaitlin Young isn’t letting accolades go to her head. “I feel incredibly honored and humbled to be named the 2018 Maine Teacher of the Year,” says Young, a 2010 UMaine graduate in music education. “I am grateful for the opportunity to further the discussion about the importance of education for all students, as well as […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) for a report about Question 2 on the ballot. The citizen’s initiative is asking to expand MaineCare, also called Medicaid, in the state, according to the report. “If Maine chooses to do this, it would make a significant number […]
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Director Marcia Douglas and a cast of 25 University of Maine students will bring a fresh and inventive production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to the Hauck Auditorium stage, beginning Nov. 10. The UMaine production of William Shakespeare’s classic comedy will run for seven performances; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 10–11 and 17–18; 2 p.m. Nov. 12 […]
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The Bradford Era of Pennsylvania reported Paul Kunoni, a Maasai scholar from Kenya and graduate student in the School of Policy and International Affairs at the University of Maine, will speak at 6 p.m. Nov. 9 at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford. Kunoni’s talk, “The Breaking Spears: A Culture at Crossroads with Modernity,” is […]
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Due to the Oct. 31 power outage, the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory at the University of Maine has rescheduled its Halloween-themed open house for 4:30 to 7 p.m. Nov. 7. The lab, located in Carnegie Hall, is part of the spatial informatics program in the School of Computing and Information Science and […]
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Michael Socolow, a professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, and Christine Ehrick, a historian at the University of Louisville and communications director of the Radio Preservation Task Force, co-wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post, titled “Voices on the radio are a crucial part of life, but they’re being lost. […]
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Centralmaine.com published a review of “Elegies and Valedictions,” a collection of poems by the late Burton Hatlen, a former University of Maine professor of English. The book was edited by his widow, UMaine English professor Virginia Nees-Hatlen and published by the National Poetry Foundation at UMaine.
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A group of 23 students from University of Maine new media professor Joline Blais’ digital narrative course has been working on a prototype for a virtual wild blueberry museum. The virtual museum would extend the work begun by the existing Wild Blueberry Land in Columbia Falls, created by Marie and Dell Emerson. Dell had previously […]
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Kristin Vekasi, an assistant professor of political science and international affairs at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on issues in North Korea, South Korea, China and Japan, leading up to President Trump’s upcoming trip to Asia. Vekasi, who specializes in Northeast Asia […]
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Amy Blackstone, a sociology professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the CNNMoney article, “How Anita Hill forever changed the way we talk about sexual harassment.” In 1991, Anita Hill testified about sexual harassment she allegedly endured from Clarence Thomas, her former boss at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and then a Supreme […]
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