Liberal Arts and Sciences

Graham Van Goffrier

Physics, electrical engineering major named Goldwater Scholar

Graham Van Goffrier, a physics and electrical engineering major at the University of Maine, has been named a Goldwater Scholar for the 2017–18 academic year by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. Van Goffrier, of Norwell, Massachusetts, was awarded one of 240 scholarships to undergraduate sophomores and juniors throughout the country. The […]

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Mount Desert Islander previews talk by Singleton

Mount Desert Islander reported Seth Singleton, an adjunct professor of political science and Libra Professor of International Relations at the University of Maine, will speak at the Northeast Harbor Library at 5:30 p.m. April 25. Singleton’s talk is titled “America First Foreign Policy: The Project to Re-order the World.”

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Sondra Perry to present as part of Tuesdays at the IMRC

Video and installation artist Sondra Perry will present her work April 18 at the University of Maine’s Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center. Perry’s 7 p.m. presentation is part of Tuesdays at the IMRC, the UMaine Intermedia MFA program’s visiting artist lecture series. Through the use of video, installation, video game software, and performance, […]

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Mayewski teams with LumenARRT! for large-scale video project

LumenARRT!, the video crew of the Artists’ Rapid Response Team, has joined with Paul Mayewski and others to create large-scale climate change projection events in Congress Square in Portland. April 22, the night of the March for Science, and May 5, the night of First Friday Art Walk in Portland, the brief video projections will […]

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UMaine students at Commencement

UMaine names its 2017 Outstanding Graduating Students

The University of Maine has named its Outstanding Graduating Students for 2017. They include:   Donald Bistri, Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Engineering Donald Bistri of Tirana, Albania is a mechanical engineering major who has been a student research assistant for two years in the Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC). At […]

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Brewer speaks with Maine Public about ranked-choice voting arguments

Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, spoke with Maine Public for a report on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court recently hearing oral arguments about the state’s ranked-choice voting law. The court’s views on the constitutionality of the law will likely influence legislators to either keep the first-in-the-nation system, ditch it […]

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Markowsky speaks with WLBZ about how to avoid cyber attacks

WLBZ (Channel 2) interviewed George Markowsky, a professor of computer science at the University of Maine, about how to avoid cyber attacks. Markowsky said a lot of people are easy targets and “cyber criminals will hit the easiest target they can.” He added the digital age has made the struggle between convenience and security a […]

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Media review performance by Bangor Symphony Orchestra, UMaine choral groups

The Ellsworth American and Bangor Daily News reviewed the annual spring concert featuring the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and singers from University of Maine choral groups. More than 120 members of the Oratorio Society and University Singers joined the orchestra for the performance that was conducted by Lucas Richman. The combined choruses were made up of […]

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Ladenheim named 2017 Steve Gould Award winner

Melissa Ladenheim, associate dean of the Honors College, has been named the 2017 Steve Gould Award winner at the University of Maine. The Steve Gould Award is presented to members of the UMaine community who have, by their conduct, demonstrated superior qualities of unselfishness and compassion in the course of serving UMaine and its ideals. […]

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