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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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about a weekend incident in a UMaine documentary film class. According to news reports and accounts of those present, a student threatened to “butcher and skin” a live rabbit as part of a presentation to the class. The story includes comments from that student, along with two others, […]
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Monday’s Bangor Daily News included a book review written by Howard Segal of the UMaine history faculty. The book, “The Three-Legged Woman and Other Excursions in Teaching,” was written by Robert Klose, a biology professor who serves on the University College of Bangor faculty. In the book, Klose describes various experiences in his teaching career […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a feature about “Clutter: A Creative Exploration of Junk and Stuff,” an exhibition organized by 10 UMaine students and scheduled for 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, December 10, at 29 Broad Street in Bangor. UMaine graduate student Allison Melton is heading up the project, which will allow the students […]
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A Sunday New York Times report mentions UMaine as one of the colleges and universities considering changes that would affect academic programs in the languages. In his academic reorganization plan announced last May, President Kennedy recommended that UMaine suspend academic majors in Latin and German, while retaining the capacity for instruction in those languages.
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