John Bear Mitchell, a lecturer and coordinator of the Wabanaki Center at the University of Maine, was quoted by the Bangor Daily News in a story on the LePage Administration’s plan to stop resettling refugees by March 4. Discontinuing participation in the federal resettlement program leaves the role of the Office of Multicultural Affairs at […]
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The University of Maine will compete in the 2017 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NECCDC) March 17–19 at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. The UMaine Cyber Defense Team is one of 10 groups from institutions around the region, including Harvard and Syracuse, scheduled to take part in the competition. The team […]
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WVII (Channel 7) and the Bangor Daily News reported on the winter exhibits currently on display at the University of Maine Museum of Art in downtown Bangor. Brenton Hamilton: 20 years is a midcareer retrospective of the Maine-based photographer’s work, which uses old-fashioned techniques to create pictures with an antique and contemporary feel. “There’s now […]
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Marie Hayes, a psychology professor who researches opiate-exposed infants at the University of Maine, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News report on addressing infant mortality in Maine. Maine is the only state to see a higher infant mortality rate in this decade (2005 to 2014) than the previous decade (1995 to 2004), according to […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s Jan. 22 concert at the Collins Center for the Arts. Noreen Silver, instructor of cello and chamber music at the University of Maine, performed as a soloist during F.J. Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major. The program also included music by Bach and Handel. […]
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The latest art installation by Samantha Jones, an adjunct professor of art and Honors College preceptor at the University of Maine, is currently on display at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Seacoast Online reported. Jones recruited art students from Blue Hill Harbor School, a small alternative high school, to work with her on the […]
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A quartet celebrated for its wit, joy of making music and technical and interpretive talents will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 29 at Minsky Recital Hall at the University of Maine. The award-winning and popular Danish String Quartet will play a wide range of music, including Beethoven’s No. 8, Op. 59 No. 2, as […]
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The University of Maine’s Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center will showcase visiting artists of various mediums, faculty presentations, and performances as part of its spring 2017 artist lecture series. The Tuesdays at the IMRC series provides the university community an opportunity to meet and learn from artists of differing backgrounds who will perform, […]
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The Maine Edge had kind words for Stephen King’s latest book in an online review. In “Hearts in Suspension,” King and some of the friends, activists, teachers and fellow writers he crossed paths with while attending the University of Maine in the late 1960s and early 1970s, share memories of those turbulent years on the […]
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The Maine Discovery Museum is unveiling a sea farming exhibit that uses virtual reality technology and interactivity to bring aquaculture to life. The University of Maine’s Aquaculture Research Institute and Maine EPSCoR Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET) program provided support for the first dedicated interactive aquaculture exhibit in the country. “It’s perfect timing,” says Trudi […]
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