A School of Performing Arts concert Saturday, Oct. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall, by more than 50 University of Maine Orchestra students will feature the great classics “Die Fledermaus Ouverture” by Johann Strauss, Beethoven’s “Leonore Overture No. 2,” Schubert’s (unfinished) “Symphonie in H” and Mussorgsky’s “A Night on […]
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An Express News online story previews a Nov. 19 University of Alberta program featuring Prof. Neil Comins from the UMaine Dept. of Physics and Astronomy. Fr. José Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory, will join Comins for a panel discussion, “Astrobiology: Are We Alone in the Universe?” The session is part of that university’s Festival […]
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Contact: Craig Lodis, (207) 907-989 ORONO — The third annual Stanley Sue Lecture Series presented by the UMaine Clinical Psychology Diversity Committee is presenting Rhonda Boyd, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, who will discuss “Preventative Interventions: The impact of depression in African-American mothers on their children.” The event, from 2-3:30 […]
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Five Maine women who have been named recipients of the Maryann Hartman Award, including UMaine first-year student Danielle Runyambo, will be honored Wednesday night in an awards ceremony at the Buchanan Alumni House, according to the Bangor Daily News. The awards are named for the late Maryann Hartman, who was a teacher and scholar in […]
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A post by UMaine political science professor Mark Brewer appears on thehill.com’s Congress blog. In the post, Brewer comments on the “entertainment factor” associated with this year’s elections. He also predicts that Republicans will gain majority control of the U.S. House of Representatives but will come up short of taking the U.S. Senate.
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UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer commented in a Maine Public Radio news report about independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler’s assertions that his major party opponents are distorting his record through negative campaign tactics.
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Contact: George Markowsky, 581-3940 On Saturday, Oct. 23, the UMaine Computer Science Department sent two teams to a preliminary competition at Western New England College in Springfield, Mass. The first team, with members Sean Edwards, Avner Maiberg and Emma Strubell, finished second in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Programming Competition and qualified to compete […]
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Mark Brewer from the UMaine political science faculty provided analysis for three weekend stories about Maine political issues. An Associated Press report looked at information about early voting among Maine Democrats and Maine Republicans. He was also quoted in a Bangor Daily News report about the races for seats in the Maine Senate, and in […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Prolific and acclaimed writer David Madden will spend the day at the University of Maine on Monday, Nov. 1. Louisiana State University’s Robert Penn Warren Professor of Creative Writing, emeritus, Madden will visit with UMaine English students and faculty members to share his insights and expertise on […]
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The Portland Press Herald story about poll numbers in Maine’s gubernatorial race included comments from Kenneth Palmer, UMaine political science professor emeritus. Palmer said with Republican candidate Paul LePage’s numbers steady, election watchers are waiting to see if either Democrat Libby Mitchell or Independent Eliot Cutler will make a move in the polls.
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