A UMaine professor has posted a YouTube video in which he asks pop singer Pink if she will perform a Christmas duet with him in order to raise funds for female mass rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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UMaine political scientist Amy Fried’s biweekly Bangor Daily News column focused on the shift in wealth of the past decades and what that means for everyday people and the opportunities they will have in the future. Fried wrote that a nation with a highly skewed distribution of wealth is a nation with less opportunity for […]
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Comments from UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer were included in an MPBN radio report about a new nonpartisan jobs creation bill introduced Tuesday by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine. Brewer said he hopes the bill will end partisan gridlock in the Senate because both parties want elements of the bill, such as the extension […]
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Sol Goldman, an adjunct faculty member who teaches law classes in the UMaine department of political science, was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News story about the Occupy Bangor encampment outside the Bangor Public Library. One Occupy Bangor member told the BDN that Goldman, who is not an Occupy Bangor member, offered to step in […]
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UMaine history Professor Richard Judd’s new book, “A Landscape History of New England,” was reviewed in the Boston Globe. Judd co-edited the book, which explores the understanding of landscape through a sense of memory and social identity. The reviewer wrote that the essays in the book capture the New England of living memory. Contact: Jessica […]
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Playwright William Yellow Robe, a member of the UMaine English faculty, will read “Glooskape’s Children,” a play by Donna Loring, on Friday Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. The staged reading is scheduled for the Black Box Theater on the second floor of UMaine’s Class of 1944 Building.
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The website Azonano noted a UMaine-Northwestern University research project, which includes contributions by UMaine physicist Dean Astumian, looking into artificial molecular machines. Astumian stated that all nanoscale machines experience collision with the surrounding molecules, causing thermal noise, and researchers are working on a chemical method by which the noise would be used for constructive purposes. […]
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The application for the 2012 James Madison Fellowship is now available at the Fellowship’s website. College seniors and college graduates who intend to become secondary school teachers of American history, American government, or social studies are eligible for this Fellowship, which carries a maximum stipend of $24,000 for up to two years of graduate study […]
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A column remembering University of Maine American history professor David Smith by History Department colleague Howard Segal appears in the November 2011 issue of American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History journal. Segal remembers Smith, who died in 2009, as a prolific author whose diverse research interests ranged from Maine history to science, forestry, agriculture and […]
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UMaine adjunct sociology faculty member Michael Rocque has received the Outstanding Student Award from the Division on People of Color and Crime at the American Society of Criminology.
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