Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — U.S. Marine Col. Michael J. Colburn, a Vermont native who serves as director of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, will visit the University of Maine for a series of activities Saturday April 2-Tuesday April 5. The highlight of Colburn’s visit will be a Tuesday, April […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Former Maine education commissioner J. Duke Albanese will visit UMaine on Monday April 4, as part of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow Program. Albanese currently serves as senior policy adviser in Maine’s Great Schools Partnership. Albanese will spend the day at UMaine, […]
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UMaine anthropology professor Dan Sandweiss is quoted in a Los Angeles Times story about a discovery shedding new light on the earliest settlement of the Americas. Texas A&M professor Michael Waters, who spoke at UMaine last fall, is the lead author of a Science article that calls into question the belief that people from the […]
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University of Maine math students Joshua Scripture, Ellen Moriarty and Eric Sawyer represented the university in the 71st Putnam Competition, held in December 2010. Described by UMaine math professor David Bradley as being “widely known as the world’s toughest math contest,” the event featured 546 institutions and nearly 4,300 students from across North America. Scripture […]
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Mary McDonagh Murphy, the film and television producer whose documentary “Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’” celebrates the 50th anniversary of that novel’s 1960 publication, will visit UMaine on Tuesday April 12. Murphy will participate in a screening of the film and a discussion during a session scheduled for 12:30-2 p.m. in […]
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Comments from Prof. Dan Sandweiss of the UMaine anthropology faculty are included in a Science Magazine story about new findings — reported this week in Science — about the earliest settlement of the Americas. Lead author Michael Waters of Texas A&M University writes about a discovery in Texas that “tells us once and for all […]
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Television station WCSH has a report about a theater with the subject of sexual assault awareness that is being performed Friday and Saturday at UMaine. UMaine graduate student Molly Schenck wrote and choreographed the performance, which is called “It’s Just Not That Simple,” and was interviewed for the TV report.
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UMaine political science major Caleb Rosser was interviewed in a Bangor Daily News story about the first anniversary of the Affordable Health Care Act. Rosser said he has benefited from the health care overhaul because when he gained four more years of coverage despite turning 22 last fall and aging out of his parents’ insurance […]
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Contact: George Markowsky, (207) 581-3941; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — A team of University of Maine computer students recently received a $3,000 contract from the Jackson Laboratory to write an educational computer program for middle and high school students. The contract was awarded by Jackson Lab’s Center for Genome Dynamics, directed by Gary Churchill, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr Note: an obituary appears in the Monday March 21 Bangor Daily News. It is online here. ORONO — Alaric Faulkner, a distinguished historical archaeologist who served 30 years on the University of Maine anthropology faculty, died on March 18 at the age of 66. Faulkner, who retired in 2008 and was granted […]
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