Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A five-year, $3.3 million National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant will fund a new University of Maine initiative to affect institutional change by improving the status of female faculty in the sciences, technology, engineering, mathematics and the social-behavioral sciences. The grant will establish the Rising Tide Center, which […]
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The Cumulus radio station group, including WQCB-FM, broadcast a news report featuring UMaine math professor Andre Khalil’s work in developing new methods for analyzing structural changes in cancer cells. This work, described in a UMaine news release, could lead to methods for earlier detection of cancer.
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UMaine critical theorist Carla Billitteri will be a featured speaker at an October 14-16 University of Buffalo symposium honoring poet Charles Olson. Billitteri is a member of the editorial collective which directs the UMaine-based National Poetry Foundation and is the author of “Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and […]
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Thursday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about Wednesday’s Bangor Foreign Policy Forum talk by 1962 UMaine graduate F. William Smullen, director of national security studies at Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Smullen served in the U.S. Army for 30 years, including a stint as chief of staff to former Secretary […]
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Amy Fried of the UMaine political science faculty will be a guest on the next edition of Maine Public Broadcasting’s “Maine Watch” television program. The subject will be the Maine gubernatorial race, with a focus on polling information and television commercials. The program airs Thursday Oct. 7 at 8 p.m., Friday Oct. 8 at 8:30 […]
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Comments from UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer were included in a Maine Public Radio story reporting that same-sex marriage is an issue in some Maine legislative races. Organizations opposed to such marriages are targeting certain incumbent legislators who voted for a Maine initiative that was ultimately defeated by the electorate last November.
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Contact: Alan Davenport, 581-1341 The sun sets early and scenery turns sinister and dangerous, plummeting into the deep ocean to investigate the “Origins of Life” as Jordan Planetarium visitors will discover the first two Fridays this month. The deepest recesses of the universe are dark, too, but ways to view it are explored in “Touching […]
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was quoted in a Maine Public Radio report looking at the independent gubernatorial candidacy of Kevin Scott, a business owner who lives in the Oxford County town of Andover. Brewer also commented in the MPBN profile of Republican nominee Paul LePage, who currently serves as Waterville’s mayor.
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a brief preview of a Thursday Oct. 14 UMaine lecture, “Faking Ancient Mesoamerican Art,” by Karen Olsen Brhuns, director of the Cihuatan-Las Marias Archaeological Project for the Fundacion Nacional de Arqueologia in El Salvador. The talk, part of UMaine’s observance of Maine Archaeology Month, is scheduled for the Bodwell Area […]
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Contact: George Markowsky, 581-3940 In spite of a spate of nonsensical movies and articles about how the world is going to end in 2012, George Markowsky, professor and chair, Department of Computer Science, Homeland Security Lab at UMaine, will discuss a potentially unpleasant event on the horizon for 2012. He’ll discuss it Thursday, Oct. 7 […]
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