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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A Wednesday Seacoast Online story previews a Dec. 11 York event commemorating the 300th anniversary of the wreck of the Nottingham Galley on Boon Island, six miles off the coast of that southern Maine town. The story notes that UMaine marine archaeologist Warren Riess recovered several artifacts from that wreck in 1995.
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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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