The University of Maine recognized 3,010 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2022 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 1,983 are from Maine, 957 are from 45 other states and 70 are from 25 countries other than the U.S. To be eligible for the Full-time Dean’s List, a student […]
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Amy Blackstone, professor of sociology at the University of Maine, spoke to WGME-TV (Channel 13 in Portland) about the choice some Maine couples are making to be child-free by choice. Blackstone published a book in 2019 called “Child Free by Choice,” sharing some of her story, her research, myths and history about not having children. […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that the University of Maine School of Computing and Information Sciences will launch a new bachelor of science in Human-Centered Technology Design program in the fall 2023 semester, after the degree program was approved at the Jan. 30 meeting of the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. Human-Centered Technology […]
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Phys.org featured a new paper from the University of Maine that illustrates how scientists can successfully use “embodiment,” or the nuanced practices and everyday interactions that shape collaboration, to improve their research. “Going forward, researchers can make commitments to embodied practices such as collaborative research design, paying attention to and attending to: partners’ needs, active […]
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The Piscataquis Observer noted that University of Maine junior Steffi Victoria has been awarded a spring internship in Sen. Susan Collins’ Washington, D.C. office. Victoria first met Collins during the UMaine Cohen Institute Summer Program’s Washington, D.C., trip last year, and she completed an internship in Collins’ Bangor office last fall. Victoria is majoring in […]
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Last fall, Grace Bermeo was in her last semester as an elementary education major at the University of Maine, doing her student teaching at Portland’s East End Community School. The school was piloting Portland Public Schools’ Wabanaki Studies curriculum, which weaves lessons about the history, culture, language and more of Maine’s original inhabitants — the […]
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Editor’s note: This story was updated Feb. 23, 2023. Liping Yu, assistant professor of physics and an associate member of the Frontier Institute for Research in Sensor Technologies (FIRST) at the University of Maine, has earned an Early CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the foundation’s most prestigious recognition of early-career faculty with potential […]
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News Center Maine and the Penobscot Bay Pilot shared that the University of Maine Native American Programs, in partnership with the Penobscot Nation, has launched a website to accompany bilingual English and Penobscot signage on campus. The new website includes audio recordings of the Penobscot language translations by language master Gabe Paul, a Penobscot pronunciation […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot and Republican Journal reported that the Waldo Reads Together committee announced this year’s featured title for its One Book, One Community program is Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty, assistant professor of English at the University of Maine.
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Scientific research can often feel prescriptive, sterile and disconnected from the communities where it happens — but it doesn’t have to be. Using two case studies of watershed restoration and environmental monitoring projects in Maine, a new paper from the University of Maine illustrates how scientists can successfully use “embodiment,” or the nuanced practices and […]
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