Willow Wind of Rumford, Maine is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The Honors College student is a communication major with minors in media studies and Spanish. Her academic honors include a McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellowship and James S. Stevens Outstanding Junior Award, both in 2022, and a 2021 […]
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Today, Book Riot, Literary Hub and Publishing Perspectives reported that Morgan Talty, associate professor of English at the University of Maine, was named one of the National Book Foundation’s 2023 5 Under 35 honorees, which is awarded to “five fiction writers under the age of 35 whose debut work promises to leave a lasting impression on […]
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CBC reported that Hollie Adams, assistant professor of English, has made the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize longlist for her story “The Sessional Year.”
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Darren Ranco has spent his life determining how to help Indigenous and non-Indigenous people protect the land they inhabit. Through his work as an anthropologist and chair of Native American Programs at the University of Maine, Ranco has studied tribal sovereignty, cultural resource protection, environmental justice and ways Native American communities can resist environmental destruction. […]
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A collaborative exhibit by University of Maine environmental engineering and Intermedia MFA students entitled “Co-Translation: Making the Invisible Visible Nanotechnology & Art vs PFAS and Microplastics” will open April 10 at the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization (IMRC) Center. A free reception with refreshments will be held for the opening April 10 from 5–7 p.m. […]
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University of Maine students and faculty will participate in pre- and post-show talks as part of the Maine Science Festival’s (MSF) headliner event, the play “Queen” by Madhuri Shekar, performed by the Penobscot Theatre Company from March 30–April 16. On April 8 at 1 p.m. before the matinee show, Phillip Fanning, assistant professor of agricultural […]
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Maine Impact Week, which celebrates the University of Maine faculty, students, community and their contributions to the social and economic advancement of the state and beyond, will be held from April 10–16. Over 20 in person and virtual events will occur throughout the week, all of which highlight the impact of research and creative work […]
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The Times Record spoke to James Warhola, a University of Maine professor emeritus of political science, about Russia’s detention of Bowdoin College graduate and Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. The reporter was arrested and accused of spying, which, according to the publication, was “just six days after the U.S. Department of Justice accused 37-year-old […]
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Manuel Wörsdörfer, assistant professor of management and computing and information science at the University of Maine, was featured on a recent episode of the “Examining Ethics” podcast, produced by the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University. In the episode, Wörsdörfer reviews both the ethical and politico-economic aspects and implications of climate change and […]
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The VEMI Lab at the University of Maine has launched its custom-built multi-person autonomous vehicle simulator, a unique platform for human-subject research in the automotive space. VEMI’s Multimodal Omnidirectional Immersive Simulator for Inclusive Navigation or MOISIN (pronounced “mo-sheen”) is unique as the first fully autonomous “people mover” or “robo-taxi” motion simulator, designed as a replacement […]
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