ORONO — The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a four-year grant of $1,678,000 to the University of Maine’s Canadian-American Center. The grant will support a National Resource Center (NRC) on Canada and provide Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for graduate students studying Canada. The Canadian-American Center will use these funds to further […]
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Contacts: Susan McKay (207) 581-1019 or susan.mckay@umit.maine.edu Owen Maurais, executive director, Penobscot River Educational Partnership, (207)581-3651 or owen.maurais@umit.maine.edu ORONO– Almost 50 Maine middle and high schools will have a chance to redesign their physical science curricula thanks to a $12.3 million grant awarded to the University of Maine. The National Science Foundation grant, which is […]
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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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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The University of Maine is launching a new media center that school officials say will help create jobs and strengthen the state’s economy.
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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.
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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 […]
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