The Maine Autism Institute for Education and Research (MAIER) at the University of Maine has received an $849,000 grant from the Maine Department of Education to continue its Early Start Maine program. Early Start Maine is an early intervention model that provides training, consultation and ongoing support statewide to providers working with young children ages […]
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Eight undergraduates and one professor from the social work department of Shanghai Ocean University (SHOU) in Shanghai, China are here for a three-week exchange with the University of Maine School of Social Work and the Intensive English Institute (IEI) July 1—20. The students are receiving English language support from Erin-Kate Sousa of the IEI and […]
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Winter 2018 in New England was one for the record books in terms of coastal flooding. Portland, Maine recorded high-water levels not experienced since the Blizzard of 1978. University of Massachusetts associate professor Jon Woodruff will talk about “High water, extreme floods and coastal systems” at 10:30 a.m. July 20 in Brooke Hall at the […]
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Three public presentations to learn about the effects of storm surge — rising water levels generated by storms — in three Maine estuaries will be held in Mount Desert, Belfast and Castine in July, led by University of Maine researchers. The interactive data sharing events, led by University of Maine professors Kim Huguenard and Laura […]
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Maine Sea Grant has published Volume VI of “The Catch: Writings from Downeast Maine,” a literary journal produced in association with Fogler Library and the Downeast Fisheries Trail. The volume features an oral history with Pat Shepard of Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries; an interview with Robin Alden; poetry by Mary Lyons, Matt Bernier, Jerry […]
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The 5-Minute Genius videos from this year’s Maine Science Festival are online. The playlist includes the presentations of two members of the University of Maine community — Andrew Thomas of the School of Marine Sciences, talking about “Tracking Ocean Climate Change,” and Sharon Klein of the School of Economics on “The Many Sciences of Solar […]
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This summer’s pasture walk series begins July 11, from 5–7 p.m., at Farm in the Woods, 245 Steward Road, Monson. Farm co-owner Gretchen Huettner will host. University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and the Maine Grass Farmers Network sponsor the series. Pasture walks are designed to be a peer-to-peer learning […]
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On July 17, Holmes Hall will be the site of a Vigilant Guard training exercise from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. That day, the Holmes Hall parking lot will be closed to accommodate the participants and their equipment. Nationwide, Vigilant Guard exercises focus on emergency preparedness. For more information, contact Will Biberstein, Conferences and Institutes, […]
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In March 2016, University of Maine community psychologist Linda Silka wrote an op-ed in the Bangor Daily News describing the deep commitment of many UMaine faculty and students to work with towns and cities in tackling complex or “wicked” problems at the intersection of economic, sociocultural and environmental issues. Jessica Masse, a community leader in […]
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Two exhibitions that speak to historical and contemporary human concerns will be on display July 20 through Sept. 21 in Lord Hall Gallery at the University of Maine. The exhibition “desolve” features selected works by Andy Mauery, a UMaine associate professor of art. Mauery describes her work as “unheroic: quieter, contemplative, more likely to offer […]
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