Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Former Maine education commissioner J. Duke Albanese will visit UMaine on Monday Dec. 6, 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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Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, (207) 581-1904 ORONO — The 2010 Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration will take place Saturday, Dec. 11 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. The event is free and open to the public. The annual holiday event features Maliseet, Micmac, […]
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When stars want to make a splash on the red carpet, they usually call in the heavy hitters: Oscar de la Renta, Chanel, Versace. But for the 2010 Met Costume Institute Gala, pop star Katy Perry wanted to light up the night. Literally. So her stylist called in Ryan Genz and Francesca Rosella of CuteCircuit, […]
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Contact: George Markowsky, 581-3940 The Tuesday, Nov. 23 Cybersecurity Club Talk at 3:30 p.m. in 227 Neville Hall will be “Setting up a Secure IPv6 Network” by Will Dean of the University of Maine. The talk will explain Internet Protocol Version 6, the successor to version 4, the first publicly used Internet Protocol in operation […]
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Saturday’s Portland Press Herald included an op-ed column, “Advice for LePage: let lawmakers lead,” written by UMaine sophomore and student senator Mark Brunton.
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Contact: Barbara Denaro, (barbara.denaro@umit.maine.edu) ORONO — Two dozen UMaine art students are exhibiting 80 works of art for the 2010 Capstone Senior Exhibit Dec. 3 through Jan. 20 at the Lord Hall Galleries. The show, titled “You Are Here,” includes paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, mixed media, ceramics and photography. The work represents what the students […]
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Comments from Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty are included in a blog post on the National Journal website. The post examines issues related to moderate Republican U.S. Senators, such as Maine’s Olympia Snowe, and whether they might face challenges from the right.
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UMaine political scientist Amy Fried was quoted in a Maine Media column on downeast.com about the growth of political blogs in Maine. Fried said openly partisan political blogs are a return to the time when newspapers were openly partisan, which many were until the early 20th century.
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Slate columnist Jack Shafer uses research by UMaine journalism professor to counter opinions offered by former ABC journalist Ted Koppel in a Sunday Washington Post column on the current state of television journalism. In that piece, Koppel writes that network news divisions were “loss leader(s) that permitted NBC, CBS and ABC to justify the enormous […]
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By Jessica Bloch (207) 581-3777 The troop battalion that went into battle this morning has been ravaged by losses. The surviving soldiers are hungry and tired. War weary. And there are no reinforcements in sight. After walking miles, the battalion comes upon a farmhouse recently vacated by enemy sympathizers. Here for the first time in […]
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