Jinyoung Park of Seongnam-si, South Korea is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Park, a chemistry major, has received International Presidential Scholarships and the Charles A. Brautlecht Scholarship, and a Center for Undergraduate Research Fellowship. For the past three semesters, Park has been collaborating with professor Matthew Brichacek […]
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Josephine Donovan, professor emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maine, was featured in a CBC article about the treatment of dogs in American literature. Donovan is one of the founding figures in animal standpoint theory, which aspires to analyze literature from the animals’ perspective. “Animals should not just be used as […]
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The Sun Journal featured University of Maine data in a sweeping report about opioid drug deaths in Maine. The Sun Journal analyzed annual confirmed drug death counts, from 1997 through September of 2021, using data from drug death reports from the Rural Drug and Alcohol Research Program at the University of Maine Margaret Chase Smith […]
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University of Maine alumnus and percussion professor Scott Horey and his graduate percussion ensemble from the University of Science and Arts of Chiapas, Mexico, will be at his alma mater April 19–20 for a live performance, master class and international cultural exchange trip at the School of Performing Arts. April 20 at 7:30 p.m., Horey […]
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The Maine International Trade Center (MITC) named the University of Maine’s School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA) the Service Provider of the Year in its 2022 International Trade & Investment Awards. MITC is a member-based organization whose goal is to assist businesses in the state of Maine with international trade through technical assistance, trade […]
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Jim Settele, director and graduate coordinator of the School of Policy & International Affairs, was interviewed by WMTW (Channel 8, Portland) about the U.S. sanctions on Russia. Settele said that the sanctions are “the most significant” of their kind in modern history. “They’re impactful on people in the country. The ruble has crashed. They can’t […]
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Margo Lukens, a University of Maine professor English, will give an online talk about her book “‘Still They Remember Me’: Penobscot Transformer Tales, Vol. 1” at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5, as part of the University of Southern Maine 2021-2022 Gloria S. Duclos Convocation Committee, “The Rivers We Belong To: Grounding Indigenous Presence and Sovereignty.” […]
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The Bangor Daily News and WABI-5 (Bangor) reported on the 2022 Cohen Lecture, where Former Secretaries of Defense Gen. James Mattis and William Cohen referred to Russian president Vladimir Putin as a war criminal. Mattis, who was President Donald Trump’s first Secretary of Defense, said he thinks Putin has already lost the war he started. […]
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Delta Maine Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society at the University of Maine will welcome renowned sociologist Marta Tienda (Princeton University) April 19–20 as its 2022 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. As part of her visit, Tienda will visit with students across campus, deliver a public lecture and take part in a roundtable […]
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Political science major Dominique DiSpirito of Woonsocket, Rhode Island is the 2022 University of Maine valedictorian and Maxwell Burtis of Brunswick, Maine, a mechanical engineering major, is this year’s salutatorian. Both are students in the UMaine Honors College. “Dominique and Maxwell are truly outstanding members of our community and their UMaine student experiences are what […]
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