Assistant professor of anthropology and climate change Gregory Zaro and a colleague from Texas Tech University have received a grant of nearly $17,000 from the National Geographic Society to fund research into the abandonment of one of the many great ancient Maya cities of southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.
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Max Hammer, a retired UMaine professor of clinical psychology, died on June 14 at the age of 80, following a lengthy illness. Hammer, a U.S. Army veteran who was born and raised in New York City, lived in Orono for the last 50 years of his life. Prof. Hammer, who earned a doctorate from the […]
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The upcoming shows at UMaine’s Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium were previewed in The Weekly. Planetarium shows will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday and throughout July and August. For a complete schedule of shows, go to www.galaxymaine.com. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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The June 26 Maine Sunday Telegram includes an opinion column, “Offshore wind has role in Maine’s future,” written by UMaine School of Economics Prof. Mario Teisl, in collaboration with his faculty colleagues Caroline Noblet, Shannon McCoy and Gary Hunt.
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A new survey of alumni of the University of Maine’s largest Ph.D. program — clinical psychology — finds more than 95 percent are licensed practitioners and most are researchers. The majority of those who graduated between 1995 and 2010 live in the Northeast and nearly 67 percent are involved in grant-supported research.
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A Bangor Daily News story about Wednesday’s Teen Conference for Youth in Care, which was held at UMaine, noted that UMaine student Shannon Johnson of Limington was one of the emcees for the conference that highlighted teenagers in foster care. Johnson, who is studying sociology and legal studies, said teens aging out of foster care […]
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The Maine Edge weekly newspaper mentioned UMaine theater professor Marcia Douglas’ involvement in the Penobscot Theatre Company’s Northern Writes New Play Festival, which opened this week. Douglas is acting and directing in the festival, which is in its fifth year. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Contact: Michael Wittmann, (207) 581-1237 In an effort to improve and strengthen science teaching in Maine middle and high schools, the University of Maine is organizing the first Summer Academy of the Maine Physical Sciences Partnership June 27-July 1.
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The weekly Village Soup newspaper has on its website a story about a new art exhibited curated by Laurie Hicks, a UMaine art professor and curator of the Lord Hall Gallery on campus, for River Arts, a gallery in Damariscotta. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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Anthropology major Siobhan McCue of Camden has received honorable mention in the undergraduate category of the 2011 Association for Women in Mathematics Essay Contest. McCue wrote an essay about UMaine mathematics instructor Jennifer Tyne titled, “For the Love of Math.” McCue took MAT 101 – The Nature and Language of Mathematics in the Fall 2010 […]
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