In an article about friends of Patti and Roger Eger, the victims of a recent shooting in Bowdoin, processing their grief, the Bangor Daily News spoke to Derek Michaud, a University of Maine professor who specializes in the philosophy of religion, the history of philosophy and philosophical theology. Michaud said that the Egers’ position as […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded $350,000 to the University of Maine Franco American Programs for a project to digitize historic materials and make them openly available online. All of the items will be hosted online at the Franco American Digital Archives/Portail franco-américain, which provides bilingual access to […]
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Phys.org, EurekAlert, Scienmag and Bioengineer.org noted that University of Maine researchers participated in a project that observed the recent solar eclipse in Australia in preparation for the 2024 total solar eclipse that will be visible from Maine.
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The Fall 2022–Spring 2023 Maine Humanities Center (MHC) Undergraduate Fellow Donald Patten, a senior in the University of Maine Department of Art, will be exhibiting his MHC art project “Past Trauma in Modernity: Impressions of COVID-19” at the MiNOR Gallery at 282 Main Street in Old Town, Maine from June 3–30. There will be an […]
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Mechanical engineering major Lara Chern of Bow, New Hampshire is the 2023 University of Maine valedictorian. Chern is an Honors College student with minors in engineering leadership and management, and mathematics. She graduated from high school two years ahead of her class and enrolled at UMaine when she was 16. As a UMaine junior, she […]
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Artificial intelligence, or “AI,” is a hot topic in 2023. AI and machine learning make headlines every day, with stories ranging from the technology’s helpful capabilities, like self-driving cars, to its scariest potential — think “deep fake” videos fooling the public, or human workers being made obsolete by tools like ChatGPT. At the University of […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that Beryl Warner Williams Hall at the University of Maine will be dedicated in a ceremony on Friday, April 28 to honor the legacy of the Bangor native and UMaine’s first Black graduate to earn a degree in mathematics. Williams went on to have a distinguished academic career at Morgan […]
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More than 1,000 student researchers, co-authors, faculty, staff, event sponsors and community members attended the 2023 UMaine Student Symposium at the Collins Center For the Arts on April 14. Read the full story on the UMaine Student Symposium webpage.
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The UMaine Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR), UMaine Space, UMaine AI and Institute of Medicine announce the recipients of the CUGR, Institute of Medicine, and Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) Summer Research Fellowships. The fellowships were developed to enhance and increase undergraduate student involvement in faculty-supervised research. Winners of the fellowships will receive $3,000 to […]
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WGME-TV (Channel 13 in Portland) interviewed John Ippolito, professor of new media at the University of Maine, about the potential ban on TikTok in the United States. “For one thing, there’s no way to go and pry TikTok off of everybody’s phone. You could prevent the Apple Store, for example, from letting users download the […]
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