The Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine has a new exhibit on Maine Memory Network website, developed from its oral history research with Eastern Fine Paper Company in Brewer. With images dating back to the early 20th century, the exhibit profiles the company from its inception in 1889 to the mill’s closure in […]
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The UMaine School of Computing and Information Science is inviting the campus community to join students at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7 on the plaza in front of Boardman Hall for an informal barbecue, open house and to learn about the activities of the Cyber Defense Club, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Computing Honor […]
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Gregory Zaro, associate professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research at the University of Zadar in Croatia during the Spring 2013 semester. According to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Zaro […]
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Jonathan Ippolito, a new media faculty member at the University of Maine, discussed with Maine Public Broadcasting Network a new social media trend that is gaining momentum worldwide. The Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response replicates online familiar sounds or activities that, when isolated, can produce a tranquil, calming effect. Ippolito said the phenomenon creates a platform […]
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University of Maine graduate student Sarah Morehead will be the keynote speaker at a Sept. 22 event for men and women interested in learning more about money and how it affects their lives. “Fall Into Financial Fitness” will be held from 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Eastport Hall on the Bangor campus of the […]
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University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report on how moderate Maine Republicans will reconcile their positions on controversial, conservative planks in the national GOP agenda. Such GOP provisions include an English as the national language initiative, pro-life stances and same-sex marriages. Brewer said he thinks Maine […]
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The Kennebec Journal interviewed Alan Davenport, director of the University of Maine Jordan Planetarium, about the weekend’s blue moon, the uncommon appearance of a second full moon in one month. Davenport explained that a blue moon isn’t really blue and, in fact, not all that rare, even though it occurs only once every two-and-a-half years. […]
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The Castine Patriot published a feature story about the Maine Physical Sciences Partnership (PSP), a collaboration of some 50 rural Maine schools, three University of Maine colleges, three Maine nonprofits with expertise in science education, and science and technology leaders at the Maine Department of Education to promote the teaching and learning of physical sciences […]
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Several area news organizations, including the Bangor Daily News, covered the closing ceremony of the 2012 Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium, which ended Thursday after six weeks of cutting, grinding and polishing of massive granite works of art by sculptors from Maine and around the world. Channel 7 (WVII) also covered the closing ceremony. The Equities.com […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts, with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact, is offering on Wednesday, Sept. 26 a student reading of “8,” the Broadway play chronicling California’s Federal District Court trial Perry v. Schwarzenegger, now Perry v. Brown, challenging the state’s Proposition 8, a constitutional provision […]
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