A University of Maine Cooperative Extension video on bedbugs has gained international attention more than five years after it was posted online. The “Experts on Demand” video features Jim Dill, a pest management specialist with UMaine Extension, demonstrating “How to Look for and Avoid Bedbugs in Hotel or Motel Rooms.” In the video, Dill advises […]
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Warren Riess is the recipient of the 2015 John Gardner Maritime Research Award from the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, Connecticut. Riess, a research associate professor of history, anthropology and marine sciences, is based at the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole. Riess earned the award for making a significant contribution to the […]
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The University of Maine History Department and Native American Studies Program will host two public events about Wabanakis in the 17th Century. At 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, Joseph Hall, a history professor at Bates College, will speak about “Declarations of Sale but not Departure: Wabanaki Claims to Place in Four Land Sales, 1660–1672.” The […]
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“Gender Roles and Society,” a 2003 encyclopedia entry by University of Maine sociology professor Amy Blackstone, is the most downloaded, full-text article currently available in DigitalCommons@UMaine. “It is tremendously gratifying to know that my work has reached such a large audience. I’m stunned,” Blackstone says of the article’s nearly 20,300 downloads. Although the Digital Commons […]
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The Maine Sheep Breeders Association and University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer sheep shearing schools in March and April. Four instructors will teach beginner sheep shearing from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 5 at Wolfe’s Neck Farm, 184 Burnett Road, Freeport. The $45 per person fee includes a shearing manual and lunch. […]
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Orono, Maine — More than 60 artists will take to the stage in the University of Maine School of Performing Arts production of the award-winning Broadway hit “Urinetown, The Musical,” Feb. 19–28. in Hauck Auditorium. The satirical comedy by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis is the story of a bureaucracy run amok when a water […]
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The University of Maine Department of Art will host two Maine-based artists in February as part of its Print Residency program. From Feb. 8–12, sculptor Anna Hepler and painter Meghan Brady will work in collaboration at UMaine. The artists are scheduled to give informal presentations on their art and processes at 9 a.m. and 12:30 […]
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The University of Maine Intermedia MFA program is accepting applications until Feb. 28 for the fall 2016 semester. The Intermedia MFA program provides students with advanced study and practice in interdisciplinary art. It is a studio-centered creative interdisciplinary program committed to research, experimental technological production, a well as the individually guided development and production of […]
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The Cohen Institute for Leadership & Public Service at the University of Maine will host a lecture on the 2016 presidential election on Feb. 11. L. Sandy Maisel, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Colby College, will speak at 4 p.m. in Little Hall, Room 140, two days after the New Hampshire […]
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The University of Maine is partnering with the Orono Police Department to launch Heads Up, a pedestrian and crosswalk safety campaign. In 2015, the state experienced the highest number of pedestrian deaths in almost 20 years. On campus and in Orono, officials have received numerous complaints of “near misses” of pedestrians in crosswalks, as well […]
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