The Bangor Daily News published an opinion piece about the Paris climate agreement by Michael Howard, a philosophy professor at the University of Maine. Howard is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to address public challenges and their policy implications. Members’ columns […]
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Professor of higher education Susan Gardner has been named director of the University of Maine Rising Tide Center for Gender Equity, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her appointment, effective July 17, concludes a national search for a director of the center that is an outgrowth of UMaine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center and […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported University of Maine professors Kim Huguenard and Laura Rickard will talk about estuaries and storm surge at the Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary in Mount Desert at 7 p.m. July 20. During “Sensing Storm Surge: A Citizen Science Approach to Measuring Storm Surge-Estuarine Interaction in Maine,” Huguenard, an assistant professor in ocean and […]
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Len Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, will deliver a noontime talk July 20 at the UMaine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. Kaye’s talk, “Caregivers of Older Adults: America’s Unsung Heroes,” is being held in conjunction with Jason Bard Yarmosky’s “Somewhere” exhibition. The exhibit features a series of paintings, drawings […]
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WVII (Channel 7) reported the Emera Astronomy Center at the University of Maine hosts educational and entertaining screenings about the universe. The center, which opened in 2014, has an observatory where spectators can view the night sky, as well as a domed theater where visitors of all ages can take in a variety of shows, […]
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University of Maine fourth-year student Miranda Roberts of Hermon has been chosen to serve as a student delegate for the Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation (ENACT), a new national program based at Brandeis University designed to engage young people in state legislative change. Roberts is a political science major with double minors in Spanish […]
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A Mount Desert Island Historical Society news release noted the many contributions of University of Maine community members to its organization. Over the past few years, UMaine students, faculty and alumni have taken on expanded roles in the society, a regional nonprofit located about 90 minutes from UMaine’s campus in Orono. New Champlain Society Fellow […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, spoke with the Morning Sentinel for an article about U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin being criticized for his support of the Republican health care legislation following the release of separate online video and audio involving constituents challenging him, according to the article. Poliquin also is […]
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Shawn Laatsch, director of the Emera Astronomy Center and Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium at the University of Maine, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on the latest news from space, including the upcoming total solar eclipse and private space launches.
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The Associated Press spoke with Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, for the article, “Maine government shutdown ends with signing of $7.1B budget.” Gov. Paul LePage succeeded in eliminating a lodging tax increase from the two-year budget in an agreement that ended a three-day state government shutdown, according to the […]
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