Traci Molloy, an artist and education activist, will give a public presentation at the University of Maine as part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The presentation, “Against My Will,” will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4 in Minsky Recital Hall. Molloy will speak about the creation of the exhibit and previous collaborations with […]
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Susan Gardner, director of the University of Maine’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program and Rising Tide Center, as well as a professor of higher education, was a recent guest on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show. The show focused on how implicit bias manifests itself and what people can do to understand their own […]
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The Mount Desert Islander previewed an upcoming discussion by Margaret Cruikshank, author and faculty associate at the University of Maine Center on Aging. The discussion, centered on the role of literature in helping people through the aging process, will take place at the Jesup Memorial Library at 1:30 p.m. May 26. The Maine Center on […]
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The most recent issue of Chebacco, the annual magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, features the work of several University of Maine faculty members and alumni. Titled “Beholding the Past,” the issue features the work of Joseph Miller, Ph.D. candidate in Canadian/American history and assistant professor of military science; Rachel Snell, adjunct instructor […]
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Through a partnership between the Maine Department of Education and the University of Maine System, tuition is waived for all qualified high school students in Maine to cover up to 12 college credits per year. Starting May 14, the University of Maine will offer summer courses suitable for rising high school juniors and seniors. Early […]
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The University of Maine will celebrate Women’s History Month with a series of events throughout March. Scheduled events will include showings of films such as “Lady Bird” and “The Hunting Ground”; public talks by politicians and activists; a Stephen E. King Chair Lecture by Jim Smith on Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries; a panel discussion on feminism; […]
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A group of 40 University of Maine faculty and graduate students gathered at Raymond H. Fogler Library over winter break to attend a half-day conference dedicated to discussing emerging trends in scholarly communications. ScholComm 2018 attendees participated in workshops that introduced them to new tools in academic publishing and advanced methods for tracking the effect […]
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The 2018 Maryann Hartman Awards recognizing the inspirational achievements of Maine women will be presented to author and chaplain Kate Braestrup of Lincolnville, community organizer and activist JoAnne Dauphinee of Bangor and state legislator Peggy Rotundo of Lewiston. The women will be honored in a ceremony at 6 p.m., March 28 at Buchanan Alumni House […]
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Susan Gardner, director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and the Rising Tide Center at the University of Maine; and Samantha Saucier, an undergraduate student and co-director of the Women’s Resource Center at UMaine, wrote an opinion piece for the Bangor Daily News titled, “Misogynist banners normalize campus rape culture. There’s nothing funny […]
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Professor of higher education Susan Gardner has been named director of the University of Maine Rising Tide Center for Gender Equity, and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her appointment, effective July 17, concludes a national search for a director of the center that is an outgrowth of UMaine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center and […]
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