The University of Maine will host several public programs centered around a free performance of a play that offers historical and contemporary insight into the plight of women in Iran. “The Poets and the Assassin” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7 in Minsky Recital Hall on campus. The play portrays struggles Iranian […]
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The Maine Sea Grant College Program has awarded funds to University of Maine faculty for three new research projects representing more than $500,000 in investment from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and matching sources. Hamish Greig, an assistant professor of stream ecology in the School of Biology and Ecology, plans to study the fate […]
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The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development has announced the 2015–16 faculty and staff awards. The awards are: Teaching Excellence Award — Susan Bennett-Armistead, a full-time associate professor of literacy; and Dick Young, a part-time lecturer Research and Creative Achievement Award — Sandra Caron, professor of family relations and human sexuality Faculty […]
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Faculty in English, anthropology and philosophy have been named for top honors in the University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Recipients of the 2016 College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Awards are: Jennifer Moxley, professor of English, for Research and Creative Achievement; Brian Robinson, associate professor of anthropology, for Teaching and […]
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A University of Maine-led digital humanities research project to study and, ultimately, “map” how Holocaust survivors use spatial terms to describe their experiences has been awarded a more than $73,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. UMaine Professor of History Anne Knowles was awarded the NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant for the project, […]
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The 30th annual Maryann Hartman Awards at the University of Maine will celebrate the achievements of three Maine leaders — Maine Attorney General Janet Mills; calligrapher and book artist Nancy Ruth Leavitt of Stillwater, Maine; and Joyce Taylor Gibson, dean of the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. The Young Women’s Social Justice Award will […]
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Tenure and/or promotion for 15 University of Maine faculty members has been approved by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. The faculty were nominated by UMaine President Susan J. Hunter based on a peer and administrative review of their successful work in teaching, research and public service. “The caliber of these faculty members […]
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The University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation is seeking motivated, innovative Maine companies that want to make a difference for the state through the Innovate for Maine Fellows program. The Innovate for Maine Fellows program connects the best and brightest Maine college students with the state’s most exciting, growing companies as a way […]
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Ocean technology in New England and Atlantic Canada will be the focus of a conference at the University of Maine April 27–28, organized by UMaine’s Canadian-American Center and the Maine International Trade Center. The conference will bring together researchers, business leaders and policymakers in ocean technology and strategy to promote a network of collaboration. The […]
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United States diplomat Pamela White, the former ambassador to Haiti and The Gambia, will deliver this year’s Commencement address at the University of Maine on May 14. She and another UMaine alumnus, Leonard Minsky, community leader and retired president of Superior Paper Products Inc., will be awarded honorary doctorates as part of UMaine’s 214th Commencement. […]
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