Readings from “The Glooskape Chronicles: Creation and the Venetian Basket,” written by author and University of Maine adjunct faculty member Donna Loring, and directed by Native American author and playwright William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., is being offered free in Room 101 of Neville Hall at 7 p.m. on Monday, May 21. The cast includes […]
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University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer was interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Network profile on Republican Scott D’Amboise, one of many candidates in the race for retiring U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe’s seat. Brewer suggested that D’Amboise could emerge as a leading contender among Republicans if he capitalizes on his Tea Party affiliations. Contact: […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) reported on a networking conference held Monday by UMaine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center for teachers from around the state to discuss promoting women’s careers in typically male-dominated professions. Amy Fried, professor of political science and a conference participant, said the event also gave teachers a chance to identify commonalities in research and […]
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The University of Maine Department of Art will present starting May 24 two new exhibits at the Lord Hall Gallery. “Art of the 80s,” which represents a wide spectrum of American art created in the 1980s, will feature works from the University of Maine Museum of Art Collection. “Structures” features works by Matt R. Foster, […]
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Howard Segal, professor of history at the University of Maine, recently published a new book, “Utopias, A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities,” with publishers at Wiley-Blackwell. The book complements his earlier publications on utopia and utopianism, “Technological Utopianism in American Culture,” written in 1985 and revised in 2005, by now delving into […]
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University of Maine political science professor Amy Fried was interviewed by Maine Public Broadcasting Network for a profile on Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jon Hinck, a Portland attorney with a diverse background. Fried said Hinck, like the other candidates, must find a way to distinguish himself from the pack. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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The Bangor Daily News published a profile of long-time professor art and painter Michael Lewis, the winner of this year’s Vincent A. Hartgen Award. The award is given each year in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement of the arts at UMaine. A former department chair and associate dean of the College of Liberal […]
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More than 40 members of the University of Maine Singers choral ensemble are on their way to Switzerland, Italy and Austria for a weeklong European concert tour. The singers, who raised the money themselves for the tour, will serve as musical ambassadors for the University of Maine throughout Europe. The University Singers is a select […]
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The University of Maine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center will host a conference on Monday, May 14, to give female faculty in engineering, mathematics, technology and the physical, biological, natural and social sciences an opportunity to meet and discuss strategies to support professional achievement.
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As the national epidemic of opiate abuse and addiction continues to swell, the social and financial burden of treating infants born to drug-addicted mothers grows, too. The current issue of the “Journal of the American Medical Association” features an editorial co-written by University of Maine psychology professor Marie Hayes.
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