As part of the requirements for an upper-level art education course at the University of Maine, students are striving to elicit real change through art, local action and awareness. This semester, the student program University of Maine Art Education Community Outreach (UMAECO) is working with Gedakina, an indigenous-led nonprofit. Gedakina’s mission is “to strengthen and […]
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The School of Performing Arts has announced Webb Parker will begin teaching as an assistant professor of music fall 2018. Parker will teach courses in music education and voice and will lead the Collegiate Chorale. Prior to his UMaine appointment, Parker was an assistant professor of music education at the University of Southern Mississippi. He […]
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Psychology professor and national expert on aging Mick Smyer will present the 2018 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics Lecture at 4:30 p.m. April 4 in Nutting Hall, Room 100. Smyer’s lecture is titled, “Living a Full, Ethical and Sustainable Life in the 21st Century: Lessons from Psychology, Ethics and Human-Centered Design.” A reception […]
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Investigative journalism in a “post-truth” age will be the focus of a lecture by the editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team on April 20 at the University of Maine. Patricia Wen, who leads the nation’s oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative unit, will speak on “Getting It Right: Investigative Journalism in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age” as […]
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Maine singer-songwriter David Mallett will be the second featured guest of the Framing Maine conversation series at the University of Maine on April 7. “Framing Maine Two: An Evening of Song and Story with David Mallett,” will take place at 7 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall. Mallett is a Maine native […]
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Enzo Traverso, the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, will speak March 29 at the University of Maine. Traverso’s talk, “Burdens of the Past: The Age of Left-Wing Melancholia,” will begin at 4 p.m. in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space at the IMRC Center in Stewart Commons. Refreshments […]
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Taylor Michele Houdlette, a third-year English major at the University of Maine, has been awarded the George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship and will study abroad in Ireland during the fall 2018 semester as part of the student exchange program. The competitive merit-based scholarship is made possible by an agreement between Maine and Ireland for a […]
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Famed oceanographer and explorer Sylvia Earle will present “Exploring the Ocean in the 21st Century” at the Collins Center for the Arts, April 30, 4:30–5:30 p.m. Her lecture will include underwater film of her research and conservation efforts in many coastal and deep areas of the global ocean. Tickets are free but must be reserved […]
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Eric Mechoulan, a professor in the Department of French Literature at the Universite de Montreal, will deliver a talk on friendship March 6 at the University of Maine. Mechoulan’s talk, “On Friendship: A brief history of the concept from Aristotle to Facebook,” will begin at 4 p.m. in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space […]
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Renowned oceanographer and National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle will give a lecture, “Exploring the Ocean in the 21st Century,” 4:30–5:30 p.m. Monday, April 30 in the Collins Center for the Arts. Tickets will be available in March and a second announcement will be posted when they become available. Tickets are free, but will require […]
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