Neil Comins, a University of Maine professor of physics and astronomy was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on the latest news from space, including NASA’s Cassini space probe and its discoveries around Saturn, prospects of lunar space tourism, and the search for Planet X.
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts will host Brian Shaw of Louisiana State University for a jazz residency April 19–21. During his residency, the associate professor of trumpet and jazz studies will be a guest conductor and soloist for the April 20 Jazz Ensemble concert. The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. […]
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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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WLBZ (Channel 2) reported Shirley Turner of Patten recently wrote a book about her son’s murder, titled “Destroying Angel.” Bruce Pratt, a novelist and English teacher at the University of Maine, has been helping Turner since 2010, when she came to UMaine’s Department of English seeking help, according to the report. Pratt said he is […]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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