UMaine News

Justin Martin, who will start this fall teaching journalism at UMaine, was quoted in a Bangor Daily News story about controversy surrounding Al-Jazeera Washington Bureau Chief Abderrahim Foukara’s upcoming talk at the Strand Theatre in Rockland. Martin, who most recently taught at the American University in Cairo, told the BDN Al-Jazeera is considered to be […]

The merger of two UMaine units to create a new School of Computing and Information Science was noted in the Bangor Daily News. Michael Worboys, who is the school’s first director, said the merger of Department of Computer Science and Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering will provide more highly skilled information technology workers […]

Justin Martin, an incoming College of Liberal Arts and Sciences-Honors College preceptor of journalism, wrote an opinion piece for the Christian Science Monitor. Martin wrote about his experiences as an American unable to find an academic job in the U.S. and deciding to accept an offer at the American University in Cairo. Martin wrote about […]

UMaine sociology professor Kim Huisman was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News story about a new book she and other UMaine faculty and staff edited. The book, “Somalis in Maine: Crossing Cultural Currents,” which contains personal stories, ethnography and essays about interactions between Somali refugees and Americans in Lewiston, include pieces by Huisman, Mazie Hough, […]

Four UMaine faculty members who edited the book “Somalis in Maine: Crossing Cultural Currents” will take part in a July 15 discussion and book signing in Searsport, according to the Village Soup website. The faculty members are Kimberly A. Huisman of the department of sociology; Mazie Hough, the associate director of the Women in the […]

The international classical music website “criticaclassica” has posted a laudatory review of a recently released world premiere CD of music from Holocaust-era Italian composer Leone Sinigaglia, recorded by pianist and UMaine associate professor of music Philip Silver, cellist Noreen Silver, also a member of the UMaine music faculty, and Ukrainian violinist Solomia Soroka, violin professor […]

UMaine’s Physics Camp, which is new this summer, was featured in the Bangor Daily News. David Batuski, the chair of the department of physics and astronomy, and graduate student Kevin Roberge were interviewed for the story, which focused on ways in which organizers tried to use different activities to communicate science concepts to children ages […]