Two University of Maine political science professors spoke to news organizations about Chechen conflicts following the Boston bombings. James Warhola spoke with the Bangor Daily News and Seth Singleton spoke with WABI (Channel 5).
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Professor George Denton of the Climate Change Institute, and co-authors Philip Conkling, Richard Alley and Wallace Broecker are recipients of the Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science for “The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change,” published in 2011. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to science literature. As noted in Phi Beta Kappa […]
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The Maine Edge reported on a project by students in a University of Maine advanced art education course taught by Constant Albertson. The students are making and selling mugs to benefit the Hirundo Wildlife Refuge in Alton. Albertson and student Abigail LeBlanc were interviewed for the story.
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TMCnet, or Technology Marketing Corporation, included a release on the University of Maine’s four top faculty award winners.
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The University of Maine Humanities Initiative’s first weeklong development seminar will be held May 13-17 on campus, and in Bangor and Augusta. The interdisciplinary sessions, which are free and open to the public, will feature presentations by 37 participants, including UMaine faculty and staff, area teachers, city councilors, and leaders of regional arts and cultural […]
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Newburyport News of Massachusetts interviewed first-year chemistry student and Amesbury, Mass. native Bryer Sousa about winning a $10,000 Projects for Peace Grant from the Davis Foundation. Sousa, who researches water filters, will travel to Honduras in June to install filters in an impoverished region of the country. WaterWorld magazine and The Weekly also carried reports.
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Fenceviewer, the community news and information website for Maine’s Hancock County, previewed a talk by Stephen Hornsby, University of Maine professor and historian. Hornsby will speak at Acadia Senior College in Bar Harbor on April 26.
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts will present “Promise Versus Prohibition: The Divided Life of Composer Dorothy Smith Dushkin (1903–1992),” a lecture by Kaitlin Briggs, associate professor of interdisciplinary studies, University of Southern Maine, with performances of musical selections composed by Dushkin, at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 21 in Minsky Recital Hall. Dushkin […]
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2013 Distinguished Maine Professor and Presidential Award winners named.
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The Bangor Daily News talked to UMaine physics graduate assistant Dahan Kim, a native of Seoul, for an April 13 story about the growing tensions on the Korean peninsula.
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