The Lord Hall Gallery at the University of Maine will host an exhibition of stone sculptures created by eight emerging and internationally recognized Maine artists Oct. 6 through Nov. 17. “Carved Stone: Maine Artists” features artists who were selected in response to the aesthetic and creative quality of their work, as well as a means […]
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University of Maine undergraduate students Katie Manzo and Julianna Ferguson have been chosen to receive this year’s Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Scholarship. Each student will carry out a yearlong research project with relevance to public policy in Maine. The project will culminate in a presentation at the 2018 UMaine Student Symposium, where they will […]
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Editor’s note: story updated Oct. 4. Native American ecological knowledge and western science will be integrated in some University of Maine science courses, with the goal of implementing the methods nationwide. With a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant titled INCLUDES (Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science), […]
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Michael Socolow, a professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, and Alex Kingsbury, deputy ideas editor at the Boston Globe, co-wrote a column for Inside Higher Ed. In “How to pitch journalists more successfully,” the authors outlined six ways academics can get on the same page with editors.
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Robert Glover, an assistant professor of honors and political science at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Bangor Daily News editorial, “LePage can’t impose immigration rules on sheriffs that violate law, Constitution.” Requiring state and local government agencies to carry out federal mandates violates the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, said Glover. […]
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Youth Today mentioned the University of Maine at Machias in an article on Teen Science Cafes held around the country. Teen Science Cafe started with a National Science Foundation grant in 2007, according to the article. Each cafe meeting starts with a short presentation by a scientist or expert in a related field, followed by […]
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The United Nations International Day of Nonviolence will be celebrated Oct. 2, the birth date of Mahatma Gandhi, one of the most admired and influential proponents of nonviolence of the modern world. As part of the observance, University of Maine Professor of Philosophy Douglas Allen has been invited to address the United Nations on “the […]
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Barbara Kates will make a free presentation titled “Truth, Healing and Change in the Land of Dawn” 4–6 p.m. Sept. 28 in Lord Hall, Room 202. Kates is a Maine community organizer with Maine-Wabanaki REACH, a cross-cultural collaborative supporting Wabanaki self-determination. Her presentation will focus on the collective history and relationship of Maine and Wabanaki […]
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The University of Maine will host several free and public events as part of Digital Humanities Week, Oct. 2–6. This year’s conference will examine what role the arts and humanities play in a world that is increasingly driven by science and technology. A growing movement known as STEM To STEAM aims to interject the arts […]
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Musician Vic Rawlings will kick off the Intermedia MFA program’s fall 2017 visiting artist lectures series, known as Tuesdays at the IMRC, 7–8 p.m. Sept. 26. The Boston-based Rawlings is a multi-instrumentalist fluent in many styles on the guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, ukulele and tenor banjo. He has played in live bands and on recordings […]
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