U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe is praising the efforts of UMaine student Nate Wildes, a junior from Cumberland who worked as an intern in her Washington, D.C. office during the spring semester. UMaine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences manages the Congressional Internship Program that afforded Wildes this opportunity. “I cannot thank Nate enough for his […]
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Jonathan Farley, an associate professor of computer science and a former visiting Libra Diversity Professor at UMaine, had an opinion piece in the Portland Press Herald in which Farley wrote about recent public remarks made by Phillip Congdon, the former Maine commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development about affirmative action. In his […]
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Approximately 70 people — including middle school and high school teachers, school administrators, University of Maine faculty members and experts on STEM education, will meet at Point Lookout in Northport Friday May 13 and Saturday May 14.
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The public is invited to attend a cultural roundtable discussion and colloquium May 20-22 in Soderberg Auditorium in Jenness Hall, at which more than two dozen of the leading voices of the Franco-American experience will share their work and discuss cultural identity.
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The story of UMaine alum Spencer Morton, who graduated in 2010 with a journalism degree and has decided to walk across the country, was featured in several media outlets, including the Bangor Daily News and the website MediaBistro. Morton intends to walk from Maine to California, where he will edit a documentary, write a book, […]
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The Guardian newspaper’s Punctuated Equilibrium blog has a story and video about ice core research being performed at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute. UMaine Ph.D. student Bess Koffman and undergraduate Eliza Kane were interviewed for the UMaine-produced video, which was featured Wednesday on the Science360 website.
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The National Science Foundation website Science360 posted a UMaine-produced video featuring students Bess Koffman and Eliza Kane, who are shown melting ice cores stored at UMaine’s Climate Change Institute facility. The cores, which represent about 2,500 years of ice, were from western Antarctica. Koffman is a Ph.D. student in earth science and Kane is an […]
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UMaine’s Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium was listed in Yankee Magazine as one of Maine’s Best Bargains for 2011. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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A weekend report on Science Magazine’s Science Now Web site covers a discovery by UMaine anthropology graduate student Sam Belknap. As reported in an American Journal of Physical Anthropology article, Belknap’s discovery provides evidence of the earliest domesticated dogs in the New World. The piece was written by Heather Pringle, a well-known science journalist who […]
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer told the Portland Press Herald a Republican-backed bill in the Maine legislature that seeks to ease town clerks’ duties around elections by eliminating same-day voter registrations and some absentee voting has a partisan edge. In recent decades, he said, Democrats want fewer restrictions on registration and voting because that party […]
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