Mainebiz and the Bangor Daily News featured graduate students from the University of Maine Intermedia Programs creating art from nanocellulose generated at the Process Development Center on campus.
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The Bangor Daily News, Sun Journal and CentralMaine.com highlighted an effort led by Anne Knowles, a University of Maine professor and graduate coordinator in the History Department, to create a digital platform for students and educators to trace the geographies of the Holocaust and connect victimsʼ stories to the places where they happened.
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The Bangor Daily News reported that University of Maine alumnus Geoffrey Wingard has been named Maine’s 2022 State History Teacher of the Year. Wingard, who teaches at Bangor High School, earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in history from UMaine. The Maine Department of Education also highlighted Wingard’s accolade.
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Borderless and Beyond shared that the University of Maine Native American Programs and UMaine Cooperative Extension have hired Tony Sutton as an assistant professor of Native American food systems. Sutton’s position will focus on Native American food systems and sovereignty, building on established relationships with tribes and grants and programs developed in Native American programs.
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The University of Maine Native American Programs and UMaine Extension have hired Tony Sutton as assistant professor of Native American Food Systems. Sutton’s position will focus on Native American food systems and sovereignty, building on relationships established with the Tribes and grants and programs developed in Native American Programs. Sutton moved to Maine from Oregon […]
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Morgan Talty, author of “Night of the Living Rez” who will serve as an assistant professor at the University of Maine this fall, wrote an essay for the Guardian about regretting not having a traditional Indigenous hair style, the long braid, when his mother died last year.
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Face masks have been an indelible part of the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining how, where and of what face masks were made can provide insight to how the personal protective equipment impacted — or was impacted by — the society around it. A study published by new faculty Matthew and Natalia Magnani in the Department of […]
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The County reported that Jillian Haggerty, a Houlton native, has completed a summer internship in Sen. Susan Collins’ Washington, D.C. office. Haggerty is a Houlton native and rising senior at the University of Maine, where she is studying political science and philosophy. She has served as vice president of both her sorority, Tri Delta, and […]
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Editor’s note: Intermedia students’ nanocellulose art will be on public display on Aug. 24 from 4:30–6:30 p.m. at the Wells Conference Center. Nanocellulose is a malleable material. In a mixture that is 97% water, nanocellulose looks like yogurt or paste. When freeze-dried, it has the consistency of Styrofoam. Fully dried, it’s like a plastic tile. […]
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Darren Ranco, chair of Native American Programs and coordinator of Native American Research at the University of Maine, was interviewed by Atlas Obscura for an article about the Indigenous origins of the clam bake. “I think there is a popular conception that [clam bakes] are a European adoption of indigenous traditions, a tradition that, for […]
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