University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy will provide expert testimony March 6 on Capitol Hill as part of “Inclusion in Tech: How Diversity Benefits All Americans,” a hearing held by the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Ferrini-Mundy will discuss the opportunities at various levels of the educational […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated March 13 From healthy foods to cutting-edge research, bioscience — applying knowledge to develop biological solutions — advances our quality of life. The University of Maine and the Bioscience Association of Maine (BioME) invite the public to tour top-notch UMaine facilities and learn about innovative programs that encompass the biosciences 4–7 […]
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The Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center at the University of Maine will host the annual Bangor Humanities Day at various locations March 2 with a reception March 1. To celebrate the humanities with the Greater Bangor community, free events for participants of all ages will be offered at venues including the University of Maine […]
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Lewiston native Adam Barr, a Los Angeles-based, Emmy Award-winning television writer and executive producer of “Will & Grace,” will moderate a public discussion on how television can adapt to changing attitudes and social concerns from 5:30–7 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Orono High School library. Made possible through the University of Maine/Orono High School Humanities […]
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The University of Maine Department of Anthropology is accepting applications for its new summer field school in digital ethnography. The course, “Digital Ethnography Field School: Exploring and Documenting Maine’s Cultures of Reuse,” is designed to give students firsthand experience with the process of designing and conducting qualitative field research. Students will have the opportunity to […]
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Jahan Ramazani, Edgar F. Shannon Professor and University Professor of English at the University of Virginia, will lead a panel discussion with University of Maine faculty focused on his article, “‘Cosmopolitan Sympathies’: Poetry of the First Global War.” The panelists will discuss the article in relation to their own work in modern and contemporary poetry […]
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Rhian Waller’s front yard is a 660-foot-deep fjord. The long, narrow sea inlet nestled between cliffs in Tjärnö, Sweden is home to a host of marine species, including seabirds and harbor seals. And corals. Until January 2020, the fjords also will be areas of exploration for Waller, a University of Maine marine scientist based at […]
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Registration is open for the Maine Statehood and Bicentennial Conference May 30–June 1 at the University of Maine. In July 1819, a majority of voters in the District of Maine chose to separate from Massachusetts. Maine became the 23rd state in the nation in March 1820. Conference organizers see the bicentennial as an opportunity to […]
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The University of Maine is leading multi-institution efforts to provide physicians with tools to help aging people avoid falls and to detect biomarkers associated with pancreatic cancer. Directed by UMaine engineering professor John Vetelino, researchers at UMaine, the University of Maine at Farmington and the University of Maine at Machias are collaborating with St. Joseph […]
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Christopher Rigaud will provide an inside look at scientific diving with the U.S. Antarctic Program during a brown-bag seminar in Brooke Hall at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Due to the forecasted snowstorm, this event has been rescheduled for noon Feb. 20. Rigaud is UMaine’s diving operations manager and serves on […]
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