Republican Journal reported the University of Maine Hutchinson Center in Belfast will offer the professional development program “Public Speaking for Business and More” on Nov. 7. Tom Dowd, a prize-winning speaker, award-winning and best-selling author, and trainer and coach, will facilitate. Nonprofit and business leaders, educators, municipal officials, members of the clergy and others interested […]
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The University of Maine Department of Art is accepting applications for the after-school ArtWorks! Program. The program for students in grades K–8 provides opportunities to explore art through hands-on experiences with a variety of visual media, as well as the history of art and viewing of artistic works. The five-week fall ArtWorks! sessions will be […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported on the Afari mobility device, which was invented by University of Maine professors Stephen Gilson and Elizabeth DePoy. Gilson and DePoy not only teach disability studies — but are both persons with disabilities. When Gilson convinced DePoy in 2008 that she should complete a triathlon, she ran into a major […]
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Noah Loveless, Sarah Penney and Matthew Ryckman are the 2019–2020 Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellows at the University of Maine. Fellows serve as ambassadors of humanities for their peers, the campus and beyond. They each will receive $4,000 for two consecutive semesters while they work on their respective research projects. Loveless, from […]
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Maine Public talked with Ivan Fernandez after the first meeting of the Maine Climate Council on Thursday. Fernandez, a University of Maine soil and forest scientist, said work on climate change is resuming at the state level. “Some faces here that I haven’t seen in about eight years,” Fernandez said. “We can continue our work.” […]
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WABI (Channel 5) recently did a story with Dale Strout, 14, a member of University of Maine Cooperative Extension 4-H since he was 9. At the Windsor Fair, Strout raised more than $5,000 by auctioning off his lamb named Goose. He’s giving the money to his friend Andrew Curtis, who has bone cancer, to defray […]
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The Bangor Daily News talked with Nina Jerome, retired University of Maine adjunct associate professor of art, about her “Entangled” exhibit at the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor. While she misses seeing students, Jerome says she relishes the opportunity to fully immerse herself in her work. “It has been thrilling, to be […]
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In her Act Out with Aislinn column in the Bangor Daily News, Aislinn Sarnacki highlighted mountain biking on Marsh Island Community Trails, including those in the 1,478-acre Dwight B. Demeritt Forest. “Mountain biking was one of Derek’s (her husband’s) favorite pastimes while attending UMaine, so he knows the trails around the university quite well,” she […]
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A professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine is collaborating on a multidisciplinary project to address waste through circular economy design. Cynthia Isenhour is one of several researchers from five universities working on the project led by the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering and the Mascaro Center for Sustainable […]
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Centralmaine.com ran a University of Maine Cooperative Extension release that announced the latest installment of its “Growing Maine” series highlighting food producers and farm families. The short documentary, which features Monica’s Chocolates in Lubec, is online.
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