The Somali Narrative Project, a successful oral history collection collaborative among four University of Maine faculty members with residents of the Lewiston-Auburn area Somali population, has resulted in the publication of a new book about the experiences of the newly arrived residents in their own words.
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The Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine has received a Maine Humanities Council grant to develop an audio and slide presentation on the history and culture of the now-closed Stinson seafood cannery in Prospect Harbor.
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Comments from Richard Powell of the UMaine political science faculty were included in a Friday Maine Public Radio story about a Chinese daily newspaper’s recent opinion column criticizing a plan to bring 60 Chinese students to Millinocket’s Stearns High School next fall. Powell, who was in China last year as a Fulbright Fellow, notes that […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a letter to the editor written by UMaine political scientist Amy Fried, about the recent vote by the Maine House to do away with same-day voter registration. Fried wrote in her letter that taking away the ability to register to vote on Election Day is an example of a limitation […]
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Dr. Marcella Sorg, a UMaine anthropologist who also serves as the state forensic anthropologist, was interviewed for a Bangor Daily News story about a skull that was found in a gravel pit off Route 1 in Hancock. Sorg, who examined the skull, told the BDN she believes it likely came from an old cemetery, and […]
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UMaine School of Performing Arts’ second annual Summer Music Theatre Festival was advanced in the Bangor Daily News. The festival starts June 17 with performances of “The Bat,” followed by “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” in August. Contact: Jessica Bloch, 207-581-3777
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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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