The January/February issue of Yankee magazine includes a story on Jon Wilson, founder of WoodenBoat Publications and a national facilitator of victim-offender dialogues for restorative justice. A segment of the story focuses on Wilson’s presentation on his work in a UMaine peace studies class.
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Comments from Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty were included in a Maine Today Media story recounting 2010 developments in Maine politics. Brewer noted that the biggest surprise was the Republican takeover of the Maine House of Representatives.
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Research by UMaine psychology professor Alan Rosenwasser is referenced in an Oprah Magazine Web story about natural sleep and wakefulness patterns, and the impact of changes on physical and emotional health.
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The Waterville Morning Sentinel has a profile of Waterville native and UMaine music major Judy Pancoast, who was nominated for a Grammy award for a children’s album she wrote. Pancoast’s CD “Weird Things Are Everywhere” is nominated in the category of Best Musical Album for Children and is up against previous Grammy winners Pete Seeger […]
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Comments from Brian Robinson of the UMaine anthropology story are included in a Monday Boston Globe story about research looking at the impact of climate change on prehistoric New England-area culture. New data are available to scientists, allowing them to build on a 2005 report looking carefully at a 1,300 “mini ice age” reflecting significant […]
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Michael Anthony Vietti of Southwest Harbor died on Dec. 7 at the age of 69. A former member of the UMaine physics faculty, Vietti served as vice president for engineering at Bar Harbor’s Rainwise, Inc. for the past 23 years. More information is in an obituary that is available online.
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Contact: Sandra Sigmon, (207) 581- 2049 ORONO — Many of us, especially in northern climates, can experience the depressing effects of seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, as days grow shorter and darker with the onset of winter. For some, the syndrome can be debilitating. UMaine professor of psychology Sandra Sigmon, a cooperating professor of the […]
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Jeremy Frey, who will be exhibiting his Maine Indian baskets Saturday at the Maine Indian Basketmakers Sale and Demonstration at the Hudson Museum, was featured in a Bangor Daily News article about a national arts grant he received Tuesday. Saturday’s event will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Collins Center for the […]
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Contact: George Markowsky, 581-3940; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The lobby of UMaine’s Jenness Hall will become somewhat of an electronic games arcade Thursday, Dec. 9, from 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., as eight teams of students will competitively showcase computer games they have created in a class, COS 125, Introduction to Problem Solving through Python Programming. […]
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The Lewiston Sun Journal reports on a new exhibit at the Maine State Museum in Augusta, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the wreck of the Nottingham Galley off the Maine coast near York. The exhibit includes video and photo depictions of the efforts of UMaine marine archaeologist Warren Riess, who recovered some of the ship’s […]
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