Liberal Arts and Sciences

WVII Reports on Bangor High School, UMaine Partnership to Study Stormwater

WVII (Channel 7) reported Bangor High School will benefit from a three-year, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study stormwater runoff and its effect on local waterways. The University of Maine’s College of Engineering is partnering with Bangor High School, as well as schools and water officials in Auburn and Portland, to complete […]

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BDN Publishes Op-Ed on Tax Structure from Maine Policy Review

The Bangor Daily News published an opinion piece titled “What’s unfair, volatile? A state tax structure that just won’t change,” by Sen. Richard Woodbury, a Yarmouth independent who has served five terms in the Legislature. The complete version of the article first appeared in Maine Policy Review, published by the University of Maine’s Margaret Chase […]

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UMaine Awarded $750,000 Grant to Study Stormwater Runoff

The Bangor Daily News reported Bangor High School will benefit from a three-year, $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study stormwater runoff and document its effect on pollution in local waterways. The University of Maine’s College of Engineering is partnering with Bangor High School, as well as schools and municipal water officials in […]

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WVII Reports on UMaine Concert Held in Memory of Newtown Victims

WVII (Channel 7) covered a concert at the University of Maine that was held in remembrance of the victims of last year’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. About 70 students, adults and professional musicians from around the state performed during the concert. UMaine student Olivia Bean said it was a great opportunity […]

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WVII Covers Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale

WVII (Channel 7) reported on the 2013 Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus. The 19th annual event featured baskets, carvings and beadwork, as well as demonstrations, storytelling, music, drumming and dancing. John Bear Mitchell, a Wabanaki studies lecturer and associate director of […]

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Several UMaine Faculty Co-Author Journal Article on Community Engagement

The Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry recently published an article co-authored by several University of Maine faculty members who were part of a Community Engaged Research Teaching and Service (CERTS) learning circle. In “Moving Beyond the Single Discipline: Building a Scholarship of Engagement that Permeates Higher Education,” the co-authors, led by Linda Silka, director […]

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Hillas Writes Op-Ed on Mandela’s Legacy for BDN

Kenneth Hillas, a retired senior foreign service officer who teaches a graduate seminar in global politics at the University of Maine, wrote an opinion piece published in the Bangor Daily News titled “As we remember Mandela, don’t simplify his history, legacy.

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