The Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News reported that Morgan Talty, assistant professor of English at the University of Maine and author of “Night of the Living Rez,” will publish his novel “Fire, Exit” in summer 2024.
Read more
Summer is the best time to catch up on reading for fun. University of Maine’s English professors always take advantage of this season to immerse themselves in literature that they aren’t teaching in class — and they are experts on what’s great to read during the long, warm days of summer. If you are looking […]
Read more
Mark Brewer, professor of political science at the University of Maine, spoke to the Portland Press Herald about Maine Republicans embracing absentee voting as key to winning special elections. “I’m sure that in areas where it is feasible that Republicans will continue to try and limit/eliminate absentee and early voting, but in places where these […]
Read more
Mackenzie “Kenzie” Gillis, a University of Maine rising senior from Glenburn, has been awarded the 2023–24 George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship to study abroad at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland. UMaine partnered with UCC to create the scholarship that honors the 1998 Northern Ireland peace accord brokered by then-Senator George Mitchell between Ireland and […]
Read more
Karyn Sporer, associate professor of sociology at the University of Maine, spoke with News Center Maine for a story about the civil rights charges against the ring leaders of neo-Nazi organization NSC-131 being dismissed in court. According to Sporer, since many cases involving the actions of hate groups are decided by the First Amendment, prosecutors […]
Read more
The Bangor Daily News shared that the University of Maine’s Zillman Art Museum will co-host “Words Matter: A Panel on the Importance of LGBTQ+ Inclusive Language” with the Health Equity Alliance and Northern Light Acadia Hospital. The panel will take place from 5:30–7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 8 at the museum, which is located at […]
Read more
The Portland Press Herald noted that the Portland Art Museum is displaying a birchbark canoe, attributed to Penobscot makers in the 1880s, that is on loan from the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum.
Read more
The Bangor Daily News published an op-ed by Michael Haedicke, associate professor of sociology at the University of Maine and a faculty fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, and Jean MacRae, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and a Mitchell Center faculty fellow, titled “Producers and regulators must […]
Read more
Darren Ranco, professor of anthropology, chair of Native American Programs and faculty fellow at Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions at the University of Maine, was named a 2023 Ford Foundation Senior Fellow. The Ford Foundation Fellowship Programs have been administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine since 1979. The […]
Read more
Morgan Talty, assistant professor of English, and Jacquelyn Gill, associate professor of paleoecology & plant ecology, received 2023 Maine Literary Awards from the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance (MWPA). Talty won the Book Award for Fiction for his debut novel “Night of the Living Rez,” and Gill won the Short Works Competition in Nonfiction for […]
Read more