UMaine arts Web site
For more information about the arts at UMaine, visit the website that provides arts feature stories along with links to pages for arts facilities, relevant events and information about academic programs in the arts.
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Fried Comments on Mitchell’s Absence From Maine Gubernatorial Debate
UMaine Political Scientist Amy Fried tells the Bangor Daily News it isn’t easy to read the meaning behind Democratic gubernatorial candidate Libby Mitchell’s decision to pull out of Thursday morning’s candidates debate in Bangor. Mitchell said earlier this week she would not participate in the debate because not all of the independent candidates had been […]
Read moreEvidence of Ancient Ocean Upwelling During El Niño Off Peru’s Coast Provides Climate Change Clues
Contact: Margaret Nagle (207) 581-3745 When the oceanic phenomenon El Niño strikes every four to seven years, it wreaks havoc on the world’s weather patterns, fishing and agriculture. University of Maine anthropologist Dan Sandweiss wants to know how ancient civilizations coped with these blows to their way of life. For the past five years, Sandweiss […]
Read more‘Without Borders VII’ Exhibit Features ‘Between’ Media
Contact: Owen Smith, (207) 581-4389 ORONO — The 2010 exhibition “Without Borders VII: Intermedia” is now open and continues through Sept. 24 at the University of Maine’s Lord Hall galleries. The festival and exhibit presents a variety of art that exists “between” traditional art forms, and includes such new media as computer-based generative art, documentation […]
Read moreIppollito in online story about son’s Legohacker blog
Prof. Jon Ippollito of the UMaine New Media faculty is quoted in a technology report on an Australian news Web site about his 12-year-old son’s Legohacker blog. The blog details the young man’s work with LEGO kits, building original creations from parts shipped in a kit for making a specific object. His latest efforts involve […]
Read moreUMaine’s plans for new media center outlined in Mainebiz
The University of Maine is launching a new media center that school officials say will help create jobs and strengthen the state’s economy.
Read moreBangor Daily News reports on archaeological discovery off the Maine coast
BASS HARBOR, Maine — An ancient freshwater lake, now submerged under salt water off the coast of Mount Desert Island, offers insights into how Maine’s coastline was formed and how those areas that are now under water became habitable for the state’s earliest settlers.
Read morePlanned New Media Center to Align State with Burgeoning Digital Industries
Contact: Velma Figgins (207) 581-4358 ORONO — The New Media Innovation, Research and Development Center scheduled to open at UMaine in 2012 is being designed to help the state tap the multi-billion-dollar digital film, gaming and animation fields, which will lead to growth opportunities for the state’s new media companies and the university. “That this […]
Read moreResearcher Detects Differences in Early Language of Children with Reading Disability
Contact: Susan Lambrecht Smith, (207) 581- 2017 ORONO — Research by University of Maine Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders Susan Lambrecht Smith is helping to refine speech and language skills of preschoolers as predictors of reading disability. A longitudinal study by Smith and three colleagues — Kathleen Scott and Jenny Roberts of Hofstra […]
Read moreUMaine Researchers Study Blood Pressure, Physical Ability, Cognition Correlations
Contact: Pete Elias, (207) 581-2097; George Manlove (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — According to a new study led by University of Maine psychologists and epidemiologists, high blood pressure is indirectly related to lowered physical ability by way of lowered cognition. Professor Pete Elias (Merrill F. Elias) and colleagues have established the relationships using a comprehensive […]
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