Contact: Tom Mikotowicz, (207) 581-1965 The University of Maine School of Performing Arts is presenting its second annual Summer Music Theatre Festival with two exciting and gruesome tales to haunt summer nights.
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The Worcester Telegram & Gazette has a feature about UMaine graduate Josee Vachon, a prominent Franco American folk singer-songwriter. Vachon graduated from UMaine with a degree in Romance Languages and told the newspaper about a concert she attended as a 20-year-old UMaine student during which she found herself singing along with the songs in French. […]
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Jonathan Farley of the UMaine computer science faculty appeared recently on the Jamaican radio program “Double Standards.” He was a guest on the entire program, but engaged in a discussion of the 2009 Springer-Verlag book “Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism” from 21:30-24:42. Farley and two others edited that book.
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Twenty UMaine students, along with Spanish professor Kathleen March, are currently in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras on a 16-day service learning study trip doing volunteer work. One of the students, Angela Bowen, is volunteering at an orphanage and describing her experiences in a blog. Contact: Angela Bowen (angela.bowen@umit.maine.edu)
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UMaine alumnus Seth Poplaski was interviewed for a story in the Waterville Sentinel about a Maine Credit Union League effort to attract young people by providing financial education. Poplaski, a 2009 graduate with a journalism degree, was one of 26 people who applied for a year-long position with the league as a spokesperson promoting Maine’s […]
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UMaine art professor Owen Smith was quoted in a Seattle Times story about a statue created in the 1970s by his father, the late Charles Smith, in Spokane, Washington. The City of Spokane had been considering moving the statue, which is located in a playground, because of its condition and because it is not an […]
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UMaine sophomore Hillary Hoyt of Frankfort will represent the Penobscot Valley region of Maine when she competes in the Miss Maine Scholarship Pageant next month, according to the Village Soup website. Hoyt is an elementary education major with a liberal arts concentration and a minor in dance. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The Weekly section of the Bangor Daily News has posted a UMaine news release on its website advancing the round-table discussion about Franco-American cultural identity May 20-22 in Jenness Hall at UMaine. The event is organized by UMaine’s Franco-American programs. The same edition also included a notice about a performance of Franco-American music at the […]
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Associate professor of communications and journalism Claire Sullivan recently received a faculty award from a statewide coalition of 18 Maine higher education institutions dedicated to promoting service learning and community engagement.
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Prof. Susan McKay of the UMaine physics faculty and director of the Maine Center for Research in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) Education (RISE Center) was interviewed for a Friday Maine Public Radio story about initiatives related to improving STEM education in Maine. Part of the story was based on the Maine Physical Sciences Partnership […]
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