What difference has UMaine made in your life and in helping you reach your goals? UMaine has made a huge difference in my life. Freshman year I was able to explore a lot of different areas within my academic field to find the right major for me. Interacting with other students and the faculty has […]
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What difference has UMaine made in your life and in helping you reach your goals? It’s been my intent to become a folklorist since I was 15. But very few colleges and universities in the Northeast, including three of the five to which I applied for my undergrad, offer anything at all in the way […]
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The Franco American Studies program at the University of Maine will host its fifth annual retreat of Franco-American writers and artists April 22–24 at the Darling Marine Center in Walpole. More than 30 attendees from New England, Quebec and New Brunswick are expected to attend. The event aims to gather members of the Franco-American creative […]
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Stefano Tijerina, University of Maine political scientist, appeared on WABI (Channel 5) to talk about the 22nd Annual HOPE Festival scheduled for 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, April 23, at the New Balance Student Recreation Center on campus. The festival, with a theme of Creating the Future: Art and Social Change, will feature storytelling, […]
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University of Maine students in an advanced art education course will present their community art service project, “Weaving a Story,” during the 22nd annual HOPE Festival. From 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Saturday, April 23 at the New Balance Student Recreation Center, the students will provide the opportunity for participants to contribute to a collaborative […]
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The Bangor Daily News and The Weekly previewed the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s season-closing concert and semi-staged performance of Giacomo Puccini’s “La Boheme.” The four-act opera is set for 3 p.m. Sunday, April 24 at the Collins Center for the Arts. The performance will mark the first time in recent memory that a live opera will […]
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The Maine Edge published a review of the Maine Masque production of Bert V. Royal’s “Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead.” Maine Masque is the University of Maine’s longtime student-run theater group. The show is viewed as an “unauthorized parody,” a bleak and unsettling reimagining of Charles Schultz’s beloved “Charlie Brown” characters as […]
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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine has announced its top student awards: Outstanding Graduating Senior: Hilary Warner-Evans, anthropology; Outstanding Undergraduate International Student Award: Mikaela Gustafsson, sociology; Outstanding Graduate Student: Kourtney Collum, anthropology and environmental policy; and Brianne Suldovsky, communication; Graduate Student Excellence in Research and Creative Activity: Samuel Belknap, […]
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The Maine Journal, a developing online publication run by University of Maine undergraduate students, will host TEDxUMaine on Saturday, April 23. Beginning at 10 a.m. in Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall, the independently organized TED event will combine live presentations by UMaine students with TED Talk videos. The event aims to motivate deep thought and conversation […]
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Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the New York Times article, “Marijuana legalization in New England is stalled by opiate crisis.” Legal marijuana advocates are looking to New England to aid efforts to expand legalization nationwide, according to the article, but the largely liberal region is struggling […]
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