Contact: Owen Smith, 581-4389 ORONO — Intermedia MFA Director Owen Smith and third-year MFA intermedia graduate student Bethany Engstrom are participating in the exhibition and gallery talk PANOPTIC, being held in conjunction with the Camden International Film Festival this weekend. The Camden International Film Festival, in partnership with Asymmetrick Arts, Binaural Nodar and the Maine […]
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Contact: Rob Gee, 603-370-0982, Robert.gee@umit.maine.edu ORONO — The 12th annual UM/UNB Conference being held this year at the University of Maine will assemble history graduate students from United States and Canada for three days of discussions about teaching, the academic job market, pedagogy and scholarly presentations. The annual event, hosted in alternate years by graduate […]
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Comments from Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty are included in a Newsweek report about Maine’s moderate Republican U.S. Senators and challenges they might face from a conservative GOP electorate.
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The Maine Speech-Language-Hearing Association (MSHLA) will bring its 2010 fall conference to the University of Maine Thursday Oct. 7-Saturday Oct. 9. The conference is scheduled for UMaine’s Wells Conference Center. UMaine’s Dept. of Communication Sciences and Disorders will host the sessions, in conjunction with MSLHA. MSLHA works […]
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Contact: Steve Evans, (207) 581-3818 ORONO — Poet and former UMaine graduate student Rachel Perry will receive the University of Maine-based National Poetry Foundation’s first annual Millay Prize for Poetry at a ceremony and reading Thursday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Soderberg Auditorium in Jenness Hall. Internationally acclaimed poet and essayist Ann Lauterbach, who […]
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Comments from UMaine political scientist Amy Fried are included in a Monday Kennebec Journal story looking at the potential political impact of issues related to U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, who represents Maine’s 1st District. Recent news stories have reported questions about the propriety of Pingree flying on a private jet owned by her fiancee, Donald […]
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was quoted in a Portland Press Herald story looking at the history and impact of voting by Mainers who identify themselves as having Franco heritage.
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Comments from UMaine political scientist Mark Brewer are included in a seacoastonline.com report analyzing the lead that GOP gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage has established in pre-election polls.
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Contact: George Markowsky, 581-3940 ORONO — George Markowsky, professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science, recently was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from The Research Council of Ternopil National Economic University in the Ukraine for his work during a recent sabbatical there. He helped the university win a NATO grant enabling the installation […]
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Comments from Amy Fried of the UMaine political science faculty are included in a Friday Bangor Daily News story about the growing popularity of absentee voting among the Maine electorate. Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap estimates that Maine absentee voting could reach 30 percent for the November election.
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