A choral concert and poetry reading commemorating World War I will be held Nov. 9 at the University of Maine and Nov. 11 at the Church of Universal Fellowship in Orono. “We Are the Dead: The Legacy of Loss” is the first set of performance events in the UMaine Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center’s […]
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Author Richard Rubin will give a talk titled “World War I: The Most Jewish War in History?” on Oct. 23 in the McIntire Room of Buchanan Alumni House at the University of Maine. Rubin is the author of four books, two of which are about America and World War I: “The Last of the Doughboys” […]
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More than 100 Bangor and Brewer area high school students studying French and Spanish are expected to participate in World Languages Day 8:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Oct. 12 at the University of Maine. The annual event, hosted by UMaine’s Department of Modern Languages and Classics, will be an immersion day in French and Spanish with activities […]
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The Honors College at the University of Maine will present the TIAA 2018–19 Distinguished Honors Graduate Lecture with Isaac Record ’03 on Sept. 25. Record, an assistant professor of practice at Michigan State University’s Lyman Briggs College, will discuss “Life, the University and Everything: My Romp Across Disciplines in Pursuit of Answers,” at 3:30 p.m. […]
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The climatic and cultural history of El Niño in Ancient Peru will be the focus of the 17th annual Geddes W. Simpson Lecture at the University of Maine on Sept. 19. Daniel Sandweiss, a UMaine professor of anthropology and climate studies, will give a lecture titled “Climate, Catastrophe, Collapse? Using Climatic and Cultural History to […]
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Professor of English and poet Jennifer Moxley has been named the fall 2018 Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Richmond.
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Barbara Clewley and Martha Gladstone bleed University of Maine blue. The longtime educators both have multiple degrees from UMaine, and are currently pursuing doctoral studies in prevention and intervention studies through the College of Education and Human Development. Gladstone and Clewley met about seven years ago as members of an educational leadership cohort at the […]
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Mount Desert Islander reported Sophia Anderson and Gaia Daul, students at Conners Emerson School in Bar Harbor, placed second in the junior group division of the statewide National History Day competition at the University of Maine. Anderson and Daul’s project, “Race in Space,” was about the five female African-American mathematicians behind NASA’s first mission to […]
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The Maine Association of Broadcasters (MAB) has announced the awarding of scholarship support to three University of Maine undergraduates. The 2017–2018 MAB Scholars are Lara Carney of Orono, Maine; Samuel Wheeler of Greenwood, Maine; and Arman Garavanian of Lowell, Massachusetts. They all are enrolled in UMaine’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and are majoring […]
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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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