The Boston.com website and other news publications carried an Associated Press report advancing the Nov. 17 William Cohen Lecture at the University of Maine, which will present speaker James Jones, retired U.S. Marine general, Vietnam veteran and President Obama’s first national security adviser. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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Jim Settele, assistant director of UMaine’s School of Policy and International Affairs, will be interviewed live on WVOM’s Tuesday morning George Hale and Ric Tyler Show. In a discussion scheduled for just after 7:20 a.m., Settele, who is a recently retired Navy captain, will preview Thursday’s UMaine William S. Cohen Lecture. Scheduled for 10:30 a.m. […]
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The University of Maine and the Library of Congress have entered into an agreement that will allow for the preservation of an invaluable collection held at UMaine’s Folklife Center. The collection, known as the Northeast Archives of Folklore and History, was developed over the course of 50 years by legendary UMaine professor and folklorist Edward […]
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University of Maine Museum of Art Director George Kinghorn will host an informal gallery talk at the museum, in downtown Bangor, on Wednesday Nov. 9 at 12 noon. The talk, and accompanying tour, will cover the Carlo Pittore exhibition “Studio Life,” at the museum through December 30. The presentation, part of the museum’s ART@NOON gallery […]
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The Maine Chinese Conference, held last week in Bangor, featured two speakers from UMaine, according to a Bangor Daily News report. Jeff Hecker, dean of UMaine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and UMaine modern languages Professor Ray Pelletier, both spoke at the conference, which aims to promote educational and business relationships between Maine and […]
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The Maine Sunday Telegram includes a guest column from UMaine President Paul Ferguson. In the column, Ferguson adds his perspectives relative to the recent announcement of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation’s $3 million grant to support collaborative statewide economic development initiatives. UMaine’s Innovation Engineering program represents a critical component of those initiatives, and the grant will […]
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Bangor television station WABI interviewed UMaine spokesman Joe Carr about an alert Tuesday morning to inform the community about an assault suspect who was thought to be headed to UMaine’s Orono campus. Carr told WABI that UMaine’s collaborations with the Orono and Old Town police departments are important because of the shared borders between campus […]
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The University of Maine will celebrate the Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary and its own strong tradition of service with a Friday Oct. 28 reception for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), scheduled for 2-4 p.m. in the Career Center library on Memorial Union’s third floor. All RPCVs in Maine are welcome and invited to bring a […]
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Marcella Sorg, a forensic anthropologist in UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center who researches issues related to substance abuse, commented in a Saturday Portland Press Herald report about Maine’s problems related to people with painkiller addictions. The story, by Press Herald reporter John Richardson, was the first in a six-part series.
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Prof. Bob Bayer, executive director of the Lobster Institute at UMaine was quoted in a Fishermen’s Voice news story challenging the assertions published in a recent Boston Globe report on the business of processing Maine lobster. The Fishermen’s Voice report provides perspectives from Bayer and others in the lobstering industry describing the business relationships between […]
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