University of Maine music professor and pianist Phillip Silver will be joined May 29-31 by fellow music faculty member and cellist Noreen Silver and acclaimed violinist and music professor Solomia Soroka of Goshen College in Indiana for a CD recording of music from the German-Jewish composer Bernhard Sekles. Sekles was an influential pedagogue who founded […]
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UMaine campus to feature works from Taiwan, New Zealand and Maine artists.
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Humility trumps arrogance when it comes to offering assistance to others.
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A telephone interview with University of Maine history professor Howard Segal by Irish radio talk show host Sean Moncrieff of newstalk 106-108 FM was aired May 22. In Part 4 of the program, which is available on the Internet, Segal discussed with Moncrieff the difficulty of creating utopian societies in spite of efforts from early […]
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The University of Maine has committed $1,000 in scholarships for 17 students who win a drawing during the 9th Annual Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) Student Conference Thursday at UMaine. Ten scholarships are bring offered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, five from the School of Computing and Information Science, and two from […]
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University of Maine sophomore Terri Bastarache of Gorham, Maine, is the recipient of the prestigious George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship and will receive a full scholarship to spend the 2013 spring semester at University College Cork in Ireland. The scholarship honors the 1998 Northern Ireland peace accord brokered by former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell between […]
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The Portland Press Herald has a story about Michael Lewis, a UMaine art professor and the winner of this year’s Vincent A. Hartgen Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of arts at the university. Despite health issues Lewis, who has been at UMaine since 1966, has a full load of classes lined up […]
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Winthrop native and 2001 UMaine alumnus Tim Simons, who studied theater at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a feature article in the Bangor Daily News about his role in the Sunday night HBO series “Veep” starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. His character, Jonah Ryan, is described as a conniving, fast-talking White House liaison. According to […]
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University of Maine political scientist Amy Fried and Kenneth Palmer, professor emeritus of political science, were interviewed for a Mainebiz article examining conflict of interest laws in Maine, a subject that has arisen over several state appointments in the LePage administration. Palmer observed that ethical issues resulting from high-ranking state officials’ personal business activities is […]
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Sarah Smiley, a 2012 University of Maine master of arts in communication graduate and columnist for the Bangor Daily News, was interviewed for a CNN feature story and video on her “Dinner with the Smileys” project. Smiley and her children invite special guests once a week to share dinner with her family and fill the […]
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