UMaine News

The Boston Globe website boston.com published a feature article about the lifelong quest by University of Maine professor emeritus of mathematics Henry Pogorzelski, now 90, who has worked more than 50 years to prove the truth of a legendary mathematical hypothesis called the Goldbach Conjecture. Pogorzelski believes he has proved the conjecture, but his work […]

Graham Morehead, a graduate student in the University of Maine’s School of Computing and Information Science, wrote in a blog post, “As American as Glasnost 2,” on the journal Nature website about how the work of Jonathan Farley, a former UMaine associate professor of computer science, could help terrorists and those out to catch them. […]

Channel 7 (WVII) reported on the 18th annual Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration held at the University of Maine’s Hudson Museum in the Collins Center for the Arts, where artists and crafters from the four prominent Maine tribes displayed their art, process and celebrated Native American culture. Contact: George Manlove, 207.581.3756

University of Maine political scientist Amy Fried joined Maine Public Broadcasting Network program “Maine Calling” host Keith Shortall and guests Rebekah Metzler, a U.S. News & World Report political reporter, and Kevin Miller, Washington bureau chief for the Portland Press Herald, discussing what’s real and what’s rhetoric in Washington, D.C. as the debate over the […]

Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed UMaine arts students Katherine McPhail and Caroline Robe, and assistant art professor Ed Nadeau for a feature on the student art show “ThinkMake” that opens at 5:30 p.m., Friday, Dec. 7 at UMaine’s Lord Hall galleries. The exhibit showcases dozens of multi-media artworks by graduating seniors in a class that included […]

The coastal Penobscot Bay Pilot interviewed University of Maine associate professor of sociology Kim Huisman as part of its coverage of the “Mother-Daughter” conference at the UMaine Hutchinson Center in Belfast. Huisman created the project and an accompanying film series as a way to strengthen relationships between mothers and daughters. Contact: George Manlove, 207.581.3756

University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting story about Gov. Paul LePage’s opposition to a Democratic Party “tracker” hired to film him at meetings and public events, and said that the practice has become more common by all political parties and campaigns. Contact: George Manlove, 207.581.3756