UMaine chemistry Ph.D. candidate James Killarney, who works with Prof. Howard Patterson in the Patterson Research group, will present his work to members of Congress and Environmental Protection Agency administrators on Capitol Hill next June. Working in the second year of a EPA STAR Fellowship, Killarney focuses on chemometric modeling of pharmaceutical contamination in water. […]
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News included an editorial column by UMaine political scientist Amy Fried, who wrote about how people remember major events such as the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Fried wrote that it is important to remember such events within a broader context, and to not do so marks a lack of intellectual and civic […]
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Anette Ruppel Rodrigues, a UMaine adjunct faculty member in German, was mentioned in a Bangor Daily News story about a play being performed starting Friday at Hauck Auditorium on the UMaine campus. Rodrigues translated the play, “The Hessian Officer in America,” from the original German into English. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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A series of late-September University of Maine presentations, with an accompanying online discussion forum, will enhance community dialogue related to the impact of evolving communications technologies on humanities scholarship.
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University of Maine Ph.D. student Robert Gee has received a Fulbright Award to conduct research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is spending nine months at Dalhousie researching a project titled “Tangled Trawls: International Natural Resource Management in the Northwest Atlantic Fishery.”
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University of Maine faculty members Constanza Ocampo-Raeder and Maria Sandweiss will present September lectures at Bangor Public Library. Their talks will be part of the Centro Hispano – The Hispanic Center of Bangor 2011 lecture series. That organization works to inform the community about Hispanic heritage and culture. Ocampo-Raeder, a professor in UMaine’s Dept. of […]
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Faculty development and diversity specialist Joann Moody will visit UMaine on Tuesday Sept. 13 through Thursday Sept. 15. She will conduct a series of small group sessions involving College of Liberal Arts and Sciences chairs, directors and peer committees on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday she will meet with people in similar roles in the […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) interviewed retired U.S. Navy Capt. James Settele, assistant director of UMaine’s School of Policy and International Affairs, and anthropology professor Henry Munson, a specialist on the religious and political evolution of the Middle East and American foreign policy, for a story about the nation’s response to the terror attacks on Sept. 9, […]
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UMaine political scientist Amy Fried was mentioned in a Huffington Post article about allegations of voter fraud in Maine committed by more than 200 college students. Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster, who has made the allegation, also alleges that undocumented immigrants cross into the country and influence the outcome of U.S. elections. Fried refuted […]
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The University of Maine Intermedia MFA program is presenting “The Variable Museum,” a thesis work created by Master of Fine Arts student John Bell as part of “Without Borders VIII: Breaking Ground,” currently on display in the Lord Hall Gallery on campus. Exhibition times are Monday through Thursday from 10-11a.m. and 3-4 p.m. until Without […]
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