A giant map of Europe is currently taking up a portion of the gymnasium floor at Leonard Middle School in Old Town, where students are using it to study the geography and culture of the continent. It’s the second consecutive year that University of Maine College of Education and Human Development Assistant Professor Patrick Womac […]
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The Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series Committee is accepting grant applications from the University of Maine community. Grants support up to 50 percent of expenses associated with cultural events that enhance the artistic, cultural and intellectual life of the University of Maine. The next application deadline is Nov. 28. Proposals must be submitted online using the […]
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Artist and Harvard University lecturer Katarina Burin will give a free, public presentation at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the University of Maine Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center. Burin’s appearance is part of Tuesdays at the IMRC, the Intermedia MFA visiting artist series. Originally from Slovakia, she creates drawings, models, collages and installation […]
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The Katherine Miles Durst Child Development Learning Center at the University of Maine recently earned reaccreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children — the nation’s leading organization of early childhood professionals. “It means we’re the best of the best,” says center coordinator Margo Brown. “It’s just recognition for what we do […]
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Thirteen University of Maine computer science and engineering students traveled to Binghamton University last weekend to take part in the America East Hackathon. At the two-day competition, students from universities in the America East Academic Consortium used coding and other skills to address civic challenges by building hardware and desktop, web and mobile applications. UMaine […]
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The National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT) and Google.org have awarded the University of Maine $3,000 to establish a student chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery-Women in Computing (ACM-W). UMaine is one of seven institutions to receive a 2016 NCWIT seed grant to develop a new a chapter of the ACM-W. The funding […]
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The Fogler Library at the University of Maine will offer “Introduction to R for Data Analysis and Visualization” from 6–8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17 in Fogler’s Library Classroom. This seminar will offer new users a hands-on introduction to R, one of the most dynamic and widely used programming languages in the world. R is a […]
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Steve Evans, associate professor of English at the University of Maine, will be the closing speaker, and Jennifer Moxley, professor of English at UMaine, will be a featured poet at the bilingual conference, “Les archives sonores de la poésie: Production, conservation, utilisation (Recording in Progress: Producing, Preserving, and Using Recorded Poetry),” Nov. 24–25 in Paris. […]
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Storyteller Mike Daisey takes on Herman Melville’s masterpiece of revenge, fate and whaling terminology in a hilarious 90-minute monologue at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. Daisey, who was born in Fort Kent and graduated from Nokomis Regional High School and Colby College, weaves […]
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Laura Cowan, chair of the University of Maine English Department and professor of English, will present Wednesday, Nov. 16 as part of Fogler Library’s “Books in My Life: Reading that Transforms” series. Cowan will speak at 7 p.m. in the Fogler Library Classroom. The event is open to any UMaine students, faculty or staff. In […]
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