Cirque Mechanics rides into the Collins Center for the Arts on Sunday, Dec. 4 with Pedal Punk, an acrobatic circus production in which cycling is the escape from technology-obsessed society. In Pedal Punk, a zany bike shop mechanic who interacts with cyclists and bikes ultimately repairs more than broken pieces. He creates wondrous machines that […]
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This December, a wireless leak detection system created by University of Maine researchers is scheduled to head to the International Space Station (ISS). The prototype, which was tested by NASA and in the inflatable lunar habitat and Wireless Sensing Laboratory (WiSe-Net Lab) on campus, could lead to increased safety on ISS and in other space […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, told The New York Times that Republican Maine governor Paul LePage may look to capitalize on his steadfast support for President-elect Donald Trump during the recent campaign. “This governor has a number of times proposed welfare reforms, aimed at fighting fraud, that were viewed […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece “Why talking politics on Thanksgiving could help us emerge from our political bubbles,” by Amy Blackstone, a sociology professor at the University of Maine. Blackstone is a member of the Maine chapter of the national Scholars Strategy Network, which brings together scholars across the country to address […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Maine artist Philip Frey about his art, career and current exhibit at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. “The obvious connection to painting is concentration,” said Frey, who has lived in Hancock since the mid-1990s. “Mindfulness helps me stay with the process of painting, and […]
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Nathan Stormer, chair of the Communication and Journalism Department at the University of Maine, will moderate an online discussion forum examining how photography communicates and shapes scientific knowledge. The Reading the Pictures Salon will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1. Experts on visual culture will analyze 10 news and media photographs […]
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The National Endowment for the Humanities published an article about the Historical Atlas of Maine and the several awards it has received. The folio has earned four publication awards, including the 2016 Globe Book Award from the Association of American Geographers, the largest professional organization of geographers in the world, according to the article. Other […]
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WVII (Channel 7) spoke with Howard Segal, a history professor at the University of Maine, for a story on the Ku Klux Klan’s history in Maine. “While Maine didn’t have big cities in the 1920s, there was a march in Brewer of roughly 40,000 klansmen. And given the population of Maine in the 1920s, that’s […]
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University of Maine Professor of Physics R. Dean Astumian has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). His selection brings the number of full-time UMaine faculty members named AAAS Fellows to 10. Annually, AAAS, the world’s largest scientific society, recognizes researchers who advance scientifically or socially distinguished science. […]
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She got the assignment a week ago, an essay asking her to outline the strategies she’d use to teach in a multicultural classroom. At first, the words came. Paragraphs even. But then, just as quickly, nothing. A blank screen. “I had a little bit and I just didn’t really know where to go from there,” […]
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