In a story about how two Maine homesteaders gained fame on TikTok, the Bangor Daily News interviewed Jon Ippolito about how the popular social media platform works and how it has become a tool for sharing information. “That format encourages a direct conversation with a standing or moving or dancing figure rather than a posed […]
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The Lowell Sun noted that Susan Pinette, director of the University of Maine’s Franco American Programs, is participating in a virtual bilingual panel during the Jack Kerouac Centennial celebration in March. The event, “Tribute to Jack Kerouac: 100 Years, Still Alive,” will also feature Hermenegilde Chiasson, director of the file “Le Grand Jack,” and Jean-Christophe […]
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A memorandum of understanding signed Dec. 3 between the University of Maine and HELP University, Malaysia will enhance educational, scientific and cultural cooperation between the two institutions. In a virtual ceremony, HELP president and co-founder Paul Chan and John Volin, UMaine executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, representing the University of Maine System, […]
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The Bangor Daily News and The Ellsworth American highlighted an upcoming concert featuring Deiran Manning, a collaborative pianist and vocal coach with the University of Maine, as part of the Winter Harbor Musical Festival. Manning, executive director of the festival, will perform with Deidre McArdle, its founder and artistic director, at 7 p.m. Feb. 4 at […]
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Maine Public, the Portland Press Herald and WMTW (Channel 8 in Portland) cited Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist and a University of Maine research professor at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, in stories about the record number of overdose deaths in Maine in 2021. According to Maine Public, Sorg, who directs the center’s Rural Drug […]
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Black Point Group featured Bonnie Newsom, an assistant professor of anthropology and a faculty associate with the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, and her research in Acadia National Park. She has been leading an effort to reanalyze archaeological collections from Wabanaki cultural sites in the park to create a framework for retelling […]
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To become a forensic psychologist, Melissa Jankowski decided to participate in a competitive internship at a prison complex famous for housing several high-profile inmates: the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina. Many know FCC Butner for having housed Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and Tiger King Joe Exoctic, but it doesn’t only house incarcerated individuals. The […]
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The Biddeford-Saco-Old Orchard Beach Courier advanced an online talk by Darren Ranco, an associate professor of anthropology and chair of Native American Studies at the University of Maine, titled “Wabanaki Climate Justice & Adaptation.” The Biddeford Cultural and Heritage Center will host the webinar at 7 p.m. Jan. 20 via Zoom. To request the Zoom […]
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Mark Brewer, professor and acting chair of the University of Maine Department of Political Science, spoke with CBS News about the ideological changes in the Republican Party, particularly as governors from the party address worker vaccine rules from private companies in varying ways. “It is no longer the case that government regulation or intervention is […]
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A column published in the Portland Press Herald highlighted Charles Scontras, renowned educator, author and labor historian who taught at the University of Maine for 36 years before passing away last year, and a bill that, if passed into law, would support the creation of a labor education center at the University of Southern Maine […]
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