The University of Maine Department of Art will open this year’s faculty exhibition, “Faculty 2022,” on Feb. 11 in the Lord Hall Gallery. The exhibition, Feb. 11–March 18, was curated by Lord Hall Gallery director Susan Smith and features works by Susan Groce, James Linehan, Ed Nadeau, Greg Ondo, Ellen Roberts and Owen Smith, a […]
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The University of Maine’s Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR) has named the 2022–2024 Research Faculty Fellows. CUGR Research Faculty Fellows are a cohort of faculty members who were nominated by their respective deans and selected by the center. The program is designed to support faculty efforts toward improving undergraduate research mentoring skills, expanding curricula to […]
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The University of Maine recognized 3,102 students for achieving Dean’s List honors in the fall 2021 semester. Of the students who made the Dean’s List, 2,025 are from Maine, 1,009 are from 39 other states and 68 are from 25 countries other than the U.S. To be eligible for the Full-time Dean’s List, a student […]
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The Courier-Gazette and The Bethel Citizen noted that the Maine Press Association awarded two journalism scholarships to University of Maine students Meaghan Bellavance and Emma H. Smith. Bellavance is a fifth-year student with a double major in journalism and anthropology. Smith is a fourth-year student with a double major in journalism and women’s, gender, and […]
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Medical Xpress shared a news release about a new peer-reviewed editorial in the American Journal of Hypertension from University of Maine and University of Arkansas researchers. In the piece, they argued that using B vitamins to lower homocysteine levels is an effective means of reducing blood pressure and may be especially useful in the management […]
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Editor’s note: The family of Ann Schonberger has arranged a memorial gathering to celebrate her life on Saturday, April 9 at 2:30 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall. A memorial service will be held in Bangor later this year to honor the life and legacy of Ann Schonberger, retired director of the University of Maine Women […]
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Maine’s research and innovation reputation takes a monumental step forward as the state’s public research university earns an R1 Carnegie Classification, UMaine joins the ranks of the nation’s top 146 doctoral research universities engaged in “very high research activity.” Orono, Maine — The University of Maine has been designated an R1 university by the prestigious […]
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News Center Maine interviewed Judith Rosenbaum, associate professor and chair of the University of Maine Department of Communication and Journalism, about book banning in schools. “When we ban books, we’re not taking information away from children,” Rosenbaum said. “We’re just taking a specific story away from them because they can still find that information somewhere […]
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The Ellsworth American reported that Margery Irvine, a University of Maine English lecturer, will lead an online book club discussion about “Silas Crockett” on March 6. The talk is sponsored by Word, the Blue Hill literary arts festival.
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The University of Maine Department of Political Science is accepting essays for the 2022 Graton Prize in Constitutional Law, which comes with a grand prize of up to $8,000. Participants must compose 2,000–5,000-word essays that answer one of five questions related to constitutional law by drawing — where appropriate — from the intent of the […]
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