Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was quoted in a Maine Public Radio report looking at the independent gubernatorial candidacy of Kevin Scott, a business owner who lives in the Oxford County town of Andover. Brewer also commented in the MPBN profile of Republican nominee Paul LePage, who currently serves as Waterville’s mayor.
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a brief preview of a Thursday Oct. 14 UMaine lecture, “Faking Ancient Mesoamerican Art,” by Karen Olsen Brhuns, director of the Cihuatan-Las Marias Archaeological Project for the Fundacion Nacional de Arqueologia in El Salvador. The talk, part of UMaine’s observance of Maine Archaeology Month, is scheduled for the Bodwell Area […]
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Contact: George Markowsky, 581-3940 In spite of a spate of nonsensical movies and articles about how the world is going to end in 2012, George Markowsky, professor and chair, Department of Computer Science, Homeland Security Lab at UMaine, will discuss a potentially unpleasant event on the horizon for 2012. He’ll discuss it Thursday, Oct. 7 […]
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Contact: Andre Khalil, (207) 581-3911; George Manlove (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — A method developed by a University of Maine mathematician to get a much more detailed look at cellular morphology has the potential to aid in early cancer detection. Andre Khalil, a UMaine assistant professor of mathematics and cooperating assistant professor of physics, has […]
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A review by English Department faculty member Steve Evans, coordinator of the New Writing Series at UMaine, of three works of contemporary poetry appears in the Oct. 18 online edition of The Nation. The piece is part of the publication’s “Shelf Life” series, a monthly column by various writers that discuss three books on a […]
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Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, (207) 581-1904 ORONO — The Hudson Museum will host a free, public lecture by Karen Olsen Bruhns, one of the leading authorities on Pre-Columbian fake artifacts from Mesoamerica and the South American Andes, Thursday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. Bruhns is director of the Cihuatan/Las Marias Archaeological Project for the Fundacion Nacional […]
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Kevin Birch, a faculty member in UMaine’s School of Performing Arts, is quoted extensively in a Bangor Daily News story about a benefit event for the 1860 E.E. & G. Hook organ located in St. John’s Catholic Church in Bangor.
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Poetry Daily, an online anthology of poetry published by The Daily Poet Association, published a poem, “Lullaby,” by Jennifer Moxley, a member of the UMaine English Department faculty, who was the daily featured poet Thursday, Sept. 30. Moxley also was the guest judge for a $10,000 poetry prize awarded by Lake Forest College in September. […]
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Mark Brewer of the UMaine political science faculty was featured in a Maine Public Radio analaysis of methodologies used by pollsters assessing the Maine gubernatorial race.
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Comments from Michael Socolow of the UMaine journalism faculty are included in a Maine Today Media story (Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal, Central Maine Morning Sentinel) about the online reporting of organizations like MaineWatchdog.org, which first reported recent news about issues related to U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree’s travel on private jets. The site is part […]
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