UMaine News

UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed by the Financial Times about former Maine Gov. Angus King, who is running for Maine’s vacant U.S. Senate seat. Brewer commented on King’s opinion that he might be a catalyst for changing the Senate’s filibuster rule, telling the newspaper it is hard to imagine what could be big […]

The Los Angeles Review of Books has reviewed and praised University of Maine art historian Justin Wolff’s biography, “Thomas Hart Benton: A Life,” which was published in March. The book focuses on the colorful, contradictory life and work of early 20th century allegorical painter. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756

In a Portland Press Herald interview, Portland-based singer-songwriter and UMaine graduate Sara Hallie Richardson credited her experimentation with electronic music to an independent study program arranged with help from UMaine music professor Beth Wiemann, who is the chair of the School of Performing Arts’ Division of Music. Richardson will perform a CD release concert with […]

University of Maine new media professors Jon Ippolito and Joline Blais were interviewed as part of a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report on their family’s move to an ultra-efficient, solar-powered home in the Belfast Co-Housing and Eco-Village Project. Ippolito and Blais said the village incorporates the philosophy of the back-to-the-land movement with a sense of […]

The Scientific American has published an article from the journal Nature that includes comments by University of Maine anthropologist Dan Sandweiss about mummification in northern Chile and southern Peru 7,000 years ago. Sandweiss, who also is dean and assistant provost of UMaine graduate studies, said a lack of current evidence makes it difficult to prove […]

The journal Nature interviewed University of Maine anthropologist Dan Sandweiss for an article about possible explanations for why hunter-gatherers in Chinchorro communities in northern Chile and southern Peru mummified their dead 7,000 years ago, long before the Egyptians. Sandweiss, who also is dean and assistant provost of UMaine graduate studies, said a lack of evidence […]

University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report on choices voters will be forced to make at the polls as they assess presidential candidates’ positions on Medicare reform. Brewer said most polling does not support a Republican plan and that Democrats are viewed as being more supportive […]