Contact: Samantha Danis, 286-6013, or George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — A class assignment has propelled a UMaine broadcast journalism major into the semifinals of a national video-reporting competition, which includes a $10,000 international reporting grant as part of the top prize. Judges for round one of the national YouTube and Pulitzer Center “Project: Report” 2010 […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 The University of Maine will host two April lectures, presented by its Program in Western Civilization and American Liberty. Prof. Michael Palmer, director of the UMaine program, calls the subjects of the presentations “probably two of the most important and influential conservative political theorists of the twentieth century.” Paul […]
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Contacts: George Markowsky, (207) 581-3940 or Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 Computer Hackers Don’t Stand a Chance Against UMaine’s Cyber Team ORONO, Maine – The University of Maine Cybersecurity Team proved that computer hackers don’t stand a chance against them at the 2010 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. The team came in second place in […]
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Contact: Judy Round, round@maine.edu or (207) 581-5104 Note: a photo of Michelle Murphy is available upon request ORONO — The University of Maine Geddes W. Simpson Lecture Committee has selected Michelle Murphy, associate professor of history and the Institute of Women Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto, to present that annual lecture. […]
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Contact: Prof. Steve Evans, (207) 581-3818 steven.evans@maine.edu ORONO — A new University of Maine endowment fund will support graduate student achievement in poetry. The Frank and Helene Crohn Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize was established by the Crohns, of Rhinebeck, N.Y., through a $300,000 gift held at the University of Maine Foundation. Building on the […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at 581-3571, joecarr@maine.edu ORONO — The University of Maine will host three February lectures, presented by its Program in Western Civilization and American Liberty Program. Ray Raymond, a U.S. Military Academy lecturer who’s also a Fellow of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City and a Fellow of […]
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Contact: Brianna Hughes, 207-837-2872 ORONO – What do goats and fish have in common? Not much until UMaine graduate student Brianna Hughes and Seal Cove Farm proprietor Barbara Brooks got together to talk about fortifying goat cheese with highly purified omega-3-rich fish oil. The project, funded by Maine Technology Institute, blends the mission of the […]
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Contact: Joe Carr, 581-3571; Kathryn Jovanelli, 561-3350 The University of Maine Museum of Art will hold a news conference to announce an important gift to the community in 2010 from Machias Savings Bank. The announcement will take place at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30. The museum is located at 40 Harlow St. in Bangor.
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Professor Emeritus David C. Smith, a Maine native and University of Maine graduate who served on the UMaine history faculty for nearly 25 years before his 1994 retirement, has died at the age of 80. Smith, who was born in Lewiston to a mother whose Maine roots […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Two renowned archaeobiology experts from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History will visit the University of Maine next week, for lectures presented by UMaine’s Dept. of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute. Bruce Smith, Smithsonian curator of North American archaeology, will discuss “Everything You Need to […]
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