A free training workshop for college women who are interested in sharpening their leadership skills and learning more about political campaigns will be held Saturday, Oct. 1 at Wells Conference Center on the University of Maine campus. Elect Her — Campus Women Win participants will learn the basics of running a successful student government campaign, […]
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Franco American Programs at the University of Maine will host a panel discussion to explore questions of citizenship and the Franco-American experience on Wednesday, Sept. 28. From noon to 2 p.m. three scholars will discuss “The 14th Amendment in Franco-American Life” at the Franco-American Centre on the Orono campus. In 1938, Claudia Breton Emond was […]
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VillageSoup reported Darren Ranco, an associate professor of anthropology and director of Native American Research at the University of Maine, will lead a talk on Native American voting rights at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29 at the Rockport Opera House. Ranco, a member of the Penobscot Nation, will focus on the 14th Amendment, the historical […]
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The Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory at the University of Maine will hold its annual open house from 4–6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21. The lab, located in Carnegie Hall, is part of the spatial informatics program in the School of Computing and Information Science and houses Maine’s only research facility that combines a […]
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Cindy Isenhour doesn’t subscribe to the adage “out with the old, in with the new.” The planet can’t sustain it, says the assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine. Consider, she says, that each American annually throws away 1,400 pounds of stuff and that 11,000 gallons of water are used to produce one […]
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Kennebec Journal and WLBZ (Channel 2) covered the “Elections 2016 — Significance for Maine’s People” forum at the University of Maine at Augusta. Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, and Sandy Maisel, a government professor at Colby College and former Congressional candidate, spoke to more than 100 people at the […]
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Shawn Laatsch, director of the Emera Astronomy Center and Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium at the University of Maine, spoke with WABI (Channel 5) on Sept. 16, the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, which was was established in 1994 by the United Nations. He spoke about how satellites monitoring the Earth’s ozone […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a feature article on the restoration and reinstallation of the “Flame of Inspiration” sculpture. The 21-foot-tall bronze chandelier, weighing more than a ton, was on display at the Collins Center for the Arts for about two decades, including when Yo-Yo Ma and Isaac Stern performed at the grand opening in […]
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PoliZette spoke with Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, for an article about the importance of Maine votes in the 2016 presidential race. With polls tightening across the country, the race could be decided by a single congressional district in Maine, under several unlikely but still-plausible scenarios, according to the […]
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A psychiatry professor from Harvard Medical School will deliver the 2016 Stanley Sue Distinguished Diversity Lecture on Sept. 23 at the University of Maine. Nhi-Ha Trinh will present “Moving beyond cultural competence: Cultural complexities in clinical research, education and practice” from 3–4 p.m. in D.P. Corbett Business Building, Room 107. The lecture is free and […]
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