Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Fellowship will launch Passamaquoddy community engagement project

Micah Pawling, an assistant professor of history and Native American studies at the University of Maine, is one of eight humanities scholars nationwide to be awarded a 2017 Public Engagement Fellowship from the Whiting Foundation. The eight were selected from more than 80 scholars nominated from over 50 institutions. The fellowship supports scholars as they […]

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BDN previews Maine Science Festival featuring UMaine participants

The Bangor Daily News advanced the third Maine Science Festival set for March 16–19 at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Linda Silka, a senior fellow at the University of Maine’s Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, has been a board member and volunteer for the festival since it began. “It’s so important […]

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University Singers embark on annual spring tour

During spring break, the University Singers will embark on a four-stop tour, March 13–17, before returning to the University of Maine for two concerts at Minsky Recital Hall March 25–26. The annual spring tour will include free concerts at the First Baptist Church of Bar Harbor, 7 p.m. Monday, March 13; Gray-New Gloucester High School […]

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Mauery work in London exhibit celebrating International Women’s Day

Andy Mauery, associate professor of art, has work in the exhibition, “T’ART,” sponsored by Sweet ‘Art at the Bones and Pearl Gallery, London, U.K., March 7–9. Celebrating International Women’s Day, T’ART brings together a range of visual artists, whose work explores themes of feminine identity. Each artist tackles the theme in an idiosyncratic way, examining […]

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Ellis to lead poetry workshop at Farnsworth Art Museum, Courier-Gazette reports

Kathleen Ellis, an adjunct assistant professor in the University of Maine’s Honors College, will teach a poetry workshop in March at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, The Courier-Gazette reported. Ellis, who also is a lecturer in UMaine’s English department, is an award-winning author of five collections of poetry. Her most recent work is “Narrow […]

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Call for proposals to support cultural events

The Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Committee is accepting grant applications from the University of Maine community. Grants support up to 50 percent of expenses associated with cultural events that enhance the artistic, cultural and intellectual life of UMaine. The next application deadline is March 27. Proposals must be submitted online using the CA/DLS Grant Application […]

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Maine Edge reviews School of Performing Arts production of ‘The Pajama Game’

The Maine Edge published a review of the University of Maine School of Performing Arts production of “The Pajama Game.” Dawn McAndrews, producing artistic director of the Theater at Monmouth, is guest directing the UMaine production of the musical, written by George Abbott and Richard Bissell, with music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry […]

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New Scientist reviews Comins’ latest book on space travel

New Scientist published a review of “The Traveler’s Guide to Space: For One-Way Settlers and Round-Trip Tourists,” the latest book by Neil Comins, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Maine. “‘The Traveler’s Guide to Space’ is a delight, and the fact that few of its readers will ever need to use […]

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BDN publishes op-ed by Howard

The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “It’s encouraging to see conservatives get behind a carbon tax to fight climate change,” by Michael Howard, a philosophy professor at the University of Maine.

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