Contact: Pauleena MacDougall (pauleena.macdougall@umit.maine.edu) DOWNEAST IRISH REVUE SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 11 ORONO — The Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine will present a Downeast Irish Revue on Friday March 11. Featuring the Press Gang from Portland, the show is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Penobscot Theater in Bangor. It will feature Irish […]
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Prof. Steve Barkan of the UMaine sociology faculty is quoted in the Campus Technology online story, “Can Tech Transcend the Textbook?” The report examines the increasing use of e-books in the college classroom. Barkan is quoted toward the end of the story, sharing his perspectives on the potential advantages to students who have access to […]
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Andy DeRoche, who earned a master’s degree at UMaine and is now a history professor at Front Range Community College, was the subject of a profile in the Longmont Times-Call newspaper in Colorado. DeRoche was recently named the college’s Faculty of the Year and is working on his third book, which will be about the […]
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UMaine international affairs student Maja Bedak was one of three people featured in a Portland Press Herald story about how the recent uprisings in Egypt affected college students and faculty who happened to be studying or researching in that country. Bedak, who lives in Portland, was halfway through her junior year abroad in a yearlong […]
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Prof. Jack Burt from the UMaine School of Performing Arts will present a trumpet recital on Tuesday Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall. The performance will feature music by Albinoni, Leonhard Paul (Mnozil Brass), in addition to the premiere of Music Division Chair, Beth Wiemann’s original piece for trumpet, cello and piano, […]
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The website allgov.com has a profile of Pamela White, who was recently appointed to the position of U.S. ambassador to Gambia. White is a Lewiston native, according to the profile, who graduated from UMaine in 1971 with a degree in journalism. She began her public service career with the Peace Corps teaching English in Cameroon […]
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Scott W. See, Libra Professor of History at the University of Maine, has recently published a second edition of The History of Canada. This comprehensive work explores Canada’s development from the earliest period of settlement until the first decade of the twenty-first century. In addition to eleven chapters that cover political, regional, ethnic, and cultural […]
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Jeff Hecker, dean of UMaine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, responded in a Bangor Daily News letter to the editor to an op-ed column by UMaine historian Jay Bregman that appeared in the Monday BDN about the elimination of the Latin major. In his letter, Hecker said Latin instruction will still be available to […]
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The Bangor Daily News covered Monday’s talk featuring Sherief Farouk, a UMaine graduate student in the computer science department who is half Egyptian and a graduate of the Arabian Academy of Science and Technology in Cairo. Farouk discussed the recent civil uprising there that resulted in the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Farouk discussed the […]
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UMaine historian Jay Bregman wrote an op-ed column that appeared in the Bangor Daily News about the proposed elimination of the Latin major at UMaine. Bregman argues that without a Latin majors, classics offerings at UMaine and in the UMaine System will suffer.
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