The Portland Phoenix has published a positive review of recent University of Maine Intermedia MFA graduate Reese Inman’s 21-piece digital and analog image-capture exhibit at the University of Maine at Augusta. The review says Inman, who is now a web developer in the UMaine Division of Marketing and Communications, appears “equally at home with paint […]
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The California-based Foresight Institute, a think tank and public interest organization focused on transformative future technologies, has awarded University of Maine professor of physics Raymond Dean Astumian the 2011 Feynman Prize for Theory. Astumian is being honored for his contributions to the understanding of Brownian motion and its role in powering molecular motors and other […]
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On Monday, Oct. 29, University of Maine President Paul Ferguson will hold Community Conversation 2.0, his second annual discussion with the UMaine community. The President’s Community Conversation 2.0 will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. in Wells Conference Center. This year, the President’s Community Conversation is being combined with the annual Employee Breakfast. […]
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Marcia Douglas, UMaine School of Performing Arts (SPA) professor of theater and director of the student production “How I Learned to Drive,” which is being performed at the Cyrus Pavilion, was interviewed for a Channel 7 (WVII) report. Douglas said the adult content of the play could put off some members of the audience, but […]
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Renate Klein, an associate professor of human development and family studies at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News article on how the families of clients of accused prostitute Alexis Wright in Kennebunk might cope with the fallout of a family member being implicated. Klein said the question of whether names […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts is presenting an evening of performance featuring the works of celebrated and lesser-known women composers at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 24 in Minsky Recital Hall in Class of 1944 Hall. Works by Hildegard of Bingen, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, UMaine professor of music Beth Wiemann, Ellinor Peterson, Madeleine […]
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Clean water will be the theme of the third annual ChemFest community outreach program Thursday, Oct. 25 at Aubert Hall at the University of Maine. As many as 100 area high school students and their teachers are expected to attend from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. for an evening of creative chemistry demonstrations designed to […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was quoted in a Boston Globe story about the coming vote on Question 1, which seeks to legalize same-sex marriage in Maine. Brewer discussed the phenomenon of what is known as the “social desirability effect,” with people who say they are undecided on an issue being likely to give a […]
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A UMaine research project was noted in an Inside Higher Ed article about a Florida meeting of prevention educators. The story included information about a project by former UMaine graduate student Molly Schenck, who wrote and directed a play, “It’s Not that Simple,” in 2008. She resurrected the dance-theater-new media performance again in 2011 as […]
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The University of Maine’s 2012 Annual Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 25 will feature Frances Fox Piven, author and distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, who will present “How Protest Movements Change American History” at 7:30 p.m. […]
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