The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine has announced the recipients of its Outstanding Faculty Awards in the areas of teaching and advising, research and creative achievement, and service and outreach.
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In his latest column on the Columbia Journalism Review website, Justin Martin, a UMaine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Honors preceptor of journalism, wrote about certain countries’ laws that make the denial of genocide a crime, therefore limiting free speech. Martin argues that banning one form of speech for ostensibly noble reasons makes it […]
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The 2012 Juried Student Art Exhibition in the Department of Art at the University of Maine will be on view from Friday, March 30 to Friday, April 27 in the Lord Hall Gallery. The annual exhibit provides undergraduate students at all levels a showcase for their work. More than 70 works were selected from more […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer commented in an Associated Press report about the GOP primary for Maine’s open U.S. Senate seat. Brewer said Republican candidate Scott D’Amboise could benefit if the rest of the GOP candidates split the mainstream, establishment vote. The Central Maine Morning Sentinel and New England Cable News website also ran the […]
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An NBC genealogical reality show, “Who Do You Think You Are?” airing Friday, March 23 at 8 p.m., will feature an interview with acclaimed actress Helen Hunt by University of Maine alumna Shannon Risk. Now an assistant professor of history at the University of Niagara in New York, Risk, who received a master’s in American […]
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Rochester, N.Y. television Channel 10 (WHEC) recently profiled University of Maine mathematician and professor of computer science Jonathan Farley for Black History Month. The video clip can be viewed through an Internet Explorer browser. Farley grew up in Brockport, N.Y., a suburb of Rochester. He has a Hollywood math and science film consulting business and […]
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Seven University of Maine undergraduates will take part in a research showcase Friday in the Hall of Flags at the Maine State House in Augusta.
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Ali Erhan Ozluk, professor in the University of Maine Department of Mathematics and Statistics for 25 years, died March 1, 2012, in Bangor. He was born Sept. 13, 1952, in Denizli, Turkey, and had taught at the University of Maine since September 1987.
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The Bangor Daily News ran a story about this summer’s Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium event, which is being held in partnership with UMaine. The report noted that UMaine will structure three summer classes around the symposium, as well as an internship and a documentary filmmaking class. Moreover, the student body will have the chance to […]
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Justin Lynch, a UMaine student majoring in political science and economics, was quoted in a USA Today story about students who are studying in the Middle East but have moved to cities to find more stability in an unstable political climate. Lynch said he spent last fall in Cairo but transferred to Beirut, where he […]
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