Brewer, Palmer in AP story on LePage Comments from Mark Brewer and Kenneth Palmer of the UMaine political science faculty are included in an Associated Press story on numerous news Web sites, including that of Washington D.C. radio station WTOP. The story looks at Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s “bluntness” and reaction among various constituencies to […]
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Prof. Tom Hess from the UMaine physics faculty was interviewed for a Friday WLBZ television story about trace amounts of radiation observed by UMaine monitors since the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. UMaine is part of a national network monitoring radiation, with reports to the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The UMaine Department of Art is postponing two events scheduled for today. This evening’s opening reception for the Annual Juried Student Exhibition at the Lord Hall Gallery is postponed until Friday, April 8 from 5:30-7 p.m. due to the snowstorm. The department’s ArtWorks after-school children’s program this afternoon will not be held, but resumes Friday, […]
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Contact: Susan Pinette, (207) 581-3791; Yvon Labbé, (207) 581-3790; Jacob Albert, (207) 581-3795 ORONO — Teachers, researchers, historians, genealogists and Franco-Americans, among others, have a new online bibliographical website to connect them to references and resources about everything Franco-American. Created through and collaboratively managed at the University of Maine Franco-American Centre, the new Franco American […]
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Contact: Department of Art, 581-3245 The UMaine Department of Art’s Annual Juried Student Exhibition 2011 will be April 1-29 at the Lord Hall Gallery. An opening reception and award ceremony are scheduled Friday, April 1 from 5:30-7 p.m. and are free and open to the public. The exhibit includes about 90 works by art students […]
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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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