A film director and an author will visit UMaine this month to discuss transgender issues. The University of Maine’s Rainbow Resource Center and the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Allies Council will host Jennifer Finney Boylan, author of “She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders” and Mark Schoen, producer of the new documentary “Trans.” […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported that Michael Dubyak, chairman, president and CEO of South Portland-based WEX Inc., and chairman of the business-led nonprofit Educate Maine, promoted Project>Login at the Portland Community Chamber’s monthly Eggs & Issues event Wednesday. Project>Login, led by Educate Maine and the University of Maine System, is a new initiative designed to […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with George Markowsky, associate director of the UMaine School of Computing and Information Science, about the three-day 2013 regional Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition that begins Friday, March 8. Ten teams will compete in UMaine’s Neville Hall by defending against computer hacking attempts made by national cybersecurity professionals. Markowsky, who […]
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The Bangor Daily News featured a story on University of Maine associate philosophy professor Kirsten Jacobson’s time spent sailing around the world. Jacobson, who became fascinated with an adventure on the high seas after seeing the movie “Master and Commander” 10 years ago, is spending half of her sabbatical year living and working on the […]
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Assistant Professor Ann Ross and 15 students will participate in the 2013 American College Dance Festival Association New England Conference at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, March 14–16. Students will participate in master classes, watch informal and adjudicated concerts, listen to lectures by guest artists and have an opportunity to network. They also will […]
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UMaine Professor of English Naomi Jacobs and University of Delaware Professor of Classics Annette Giesecke have co-edited a new volume of 17 utopian studies essays: “Earth Perfect? Nature, Utopia and the Garden”. The researchers focus on ancient and modern utopian approaches to the garden, “a human creation driven by the desire to find an ideal […]
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Regional Cyber Defense Competition bringing Internet ‘warfare’ to UMaine.
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University Singers embark on 35th annual spring tour.
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A Maine Public Broadcasting Network report on the dilemma researchers at many colleges and universities face when publishing academic articles in journals that charge high subscription rates versus free open access Internet venues included comments from Joyce Rumery, dean of libraries at UMaine, Deborah Rollins, head of collections services at Fogler, UMaine oceanographer Pete Jumars […]
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A short film produced and directed by University of Maine Intermedia MFA graduate student Neil Shelley with student actors and crew has been accepted into the third annual Lewiston Auburn Film Festival, April 4–7. Shelley, who is from Gray, Maine, created the 28-minute film “Telling Hannah” in a Year in Film class with assistance from […]
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