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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For a second year, University of Maine students taking an upper-level, political science seminar on international law will get a chance to try out their newly acquired skills inside a courtroom. Patrick Downey, an adjunct assistant professor in political science, teaches the seminar and is overseeing an international law moot court on Monday, Dec. 5 […]
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In an interview with the Associated Press, University of Maine Political Science Professor Mark Brewer said public dissatisfaction with the candidates for president led more Maine voters to cast ballots on referendum questions than on the race at the top of the ticket. “A lot of people looked at the presidential choices and said, ‘Yuck!’ […]
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David Sturm, an instructional laboratory and lecture demonstration specialist at the University of Maine, visited the studio of WVII (Channel 7) for an installment of “Physics Friday.” Sturm demonstrated a variety of science experiments.
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has announced the recipients of the Research and Creative Activities Fellowships for 2016–17. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research and creative activities, and are supported through the office of the Vice President for Research. Each fellowship provides a […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a review of “Constellations,” a joint production of the School of Performing Arts and Emera Astronomy Center. British playwright Nick Payne applies string theory to an evolving relationship between two lovers in his awarding winning one-act, according to the article. Marcia Joy Douglas, an associate professor of theatre, is directing […]
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The SandPaper, a news magazine based in Surf City, New Jersey, cited research by Michael Socolow, a professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine, in the article, “Were newspapers in on ‘War of Worlds’ hoax?” The article looked at the overblown reports of panic following Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast of “War […]
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