Jefferson White, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Maine, passed away at his home in Westwood, Massachusetts, on March 24, 2022, at the age of 92, after a brief illness. White retired from the university in 2010 after half a century of teaching and research in philosophy. After receiving a B.A. at Baylor […]
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The Penobscot Bay Pilot shared information about a presentation by Michael Socolow, associate professor at UMaine and media historian, at the Rockland Public Library on May 26 at 6:30 p.m., both in-person at the library and via Zoom. Socolow’s talk, “The Pine Tree State on the American Airwaves: The Interplay of Local, Regional, and National […]
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“Sounds from Silence: Rescuing Music Suppressed by the Nazis,” the performance by the Silver Duo in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah), is available online. In the performance, University of Maine School of Performing Arts professor and pianist Phillip Silver presented his research on rescuing music suppressed by the Nazis. He was joined in […]
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Medical Xpress shared a University of Maine study that shows adverse childhood experiences may have a negative impact on cognitive function as people age. “Although we cannot change the past, we can identify activities and behaviors that may help lessen the negative downstream effects of childhood adversity. Studying things that increase resiliency may help us […]
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Hail Champagne, a University of Maine rising senior from Lewiston, has been awarded the 2022–23 George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship to study abroad at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland. UMaine partnered with UCC to create the scholarship that honors the 1998 Northern Ireland peace accord brokered by then-Senator George Mitchell between Ireland and the […]
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News Center Maine, 3D Printing Industry, NewsBreak and the Bangor Daily News reported that a UMaine team is 3D printing a replica of one of the items, the Tlingit Frog Clan Helmet, which will be displayed at the Hudson Museum while the original is sent back to the Tlingit tribe in southern Alaska. UMaine engineers […]
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A 19th-century clan helmet of carved yellow cedar in the Northwest Coast collection of the Hudson Museum at the University of Maine has been introduced to 21st-century 3D printing technology in an attempt to replicate the artifact for future repatriation and educational purposes. The museum, in collaboration with UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center and […]
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Childhood trauma can impact a person’s life into adulthood. According to University of Maine research, adverse childhood experiences may even have a negative impact on cognitive function as people age. UMaine researchers assessed the intellectual abilities, verbal memory, visual memory and executive attention of participants ages 55 to 90 years old recruited as part of […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported that the University of Maine Department of Art, the Old Town Hannaford and two UMaine students, Gabriella Peluso and Elaine Thomas, were honored at this year’s 2022 Maine Campus Compact Awards Ceremony.
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Bonnie Newsom, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Maine and member of the Penobscot Indian Nation, and Alice Kelley, research associate professor at the Climate Change Institute, co-authored a study showing that oyster fisheries were intensively yet sustainably harvested by Indigenous peoples long before European settlers arrived. The study, co-led by Smithsonian’s National […]
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