College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Jacobson Creates Orono High School Philosophy Program, “Philosophy Across the Ages”

kallan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:26:52 +0000

Jacobson creates Orono High School Philosophy Program, “Philosophy Across the Ages”, to provide UMaine undergraduates with a unique opportunity to lead seminar discussions with local high school students.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/31362985?secret_password=2i1i20ka9q0to1bl269q

Art as Research: Talk Scheduled for 9/14

kallan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:06:26 +0000

Art as Research- A Necessary Practice

A talk given by Dr. Graeme Sullivan, Director of the School of Art, Pennsylvania State University

Tuesday, September 14th at 7:00 pm
100 Lord Hall

This presentation explores a range of practices contemporary artists use in their creative and critical responses to the world around them. Of particular interest is the role the imaginative intellect and visualization plays in transforming human understanding. The claim is made that artists are ‘researchers’ whose practice is theoretically robust, ideas-based, purposeful and strategic, and makes use of forms and methods that are connected to, but distinct from, traditional systems of inquiry. using many examples of contemporary art is argued that art practice as research is a creative and critical process whereby imaginative leaps are made into what we don’t know as this can lead to crucial insights that can change what we do now.

UMaine Marine Historian Riess Comments in 1700s Ship Article

kallan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:03:56 +0000

Comments from Warren Riess, professor of maritime history and archeology at UMaine and lead investigator in the evaluation of an 18th century ship found buried at the site of the World Trade Center, were included in an August 8 online article in New York City’s Daily News about the project.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/08/08/2010-08-08_slow_and_steady_restores_the_past.html?r=ny_local&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nydnrss%2Fny_local+(NY+Local)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Three UMaine Students Accepted for Canada Exchange Fellowships

kallan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:01:22 +0000

Three University of Maine students have been accepted into the 2010 Killam Fellowship program, a Canadian-United States exchange program that awards $10,000 scholarships to study at a Canadian university. The students are Kristen Brown of Bangor, Mallory Lavoie of Madawaska and Kristin Kirouac of Augusta.

http://www.umaine.edu/news/blog/2010/07/01/three-umaine-students-named-killam-fellowship-exchange-scholars/

Steve Barkan elected to National Sociology Council

kallan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:49:25 +0000

UMaine Sociology professor Steve Barkan has been elected to a e-year term on the council of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). The Section provides a forum for intellectual and personal exchange among sociologists interested in the study of law, legal institutions, and law-related structures and processes.

Andrew Knightly Awarded Prestigious MSRI Research Membership

kallan — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:30:33 +0000

Andrew Knightly of UMaine’s Department of Mathematics and Statistics has been awarded a research membership at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, one of the top mathematics institutes in the country, for the program “Arithmetic Statistics” from January 10 through May 20, 2011.

Art as Research- A Necessary Practice: September 14th at 7pm

kallan — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:57:55 +0000

Art as Research- A Necessary Practice

A talk given by Dr. Graeme Sullivan, Director of the School of Art, Pennsylvania State University

Tuesday, September 14th at 7:00 pm
100 Lord Hall

March 19 Lecture on Rights and the Supreme Court

amyfried — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:05:53 +0000

Professor Joseph Hebert, Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, will be speaking on “Getting Rights Wrong: A Tocquevillian Perspective on Individual Rights and the United States Supreme Court” on Friday, March 19, 3:10-4:40, 140 Bennett Hall.

Professor Hebert received his B.A. from the University of Maine and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.

Darwin After Dark

jbergeron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:22:48 +0000

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Political Scientist Palmer is Maine Heritage Lecturer Nov. 5

jbergeron — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:23:33 +0000

ORONO — In the second annual Maine Heritage Lecture, UMaine professor emeritus of political science Kenneth Palmer will speak on “Maine’s Paradoxical Politics,” Thursday, Nov. 5.

The lecture, at 4:30 p.m. in the university’s Wells Conference Center, is free and open to the public.

Palmer is a political scientist who began teaching at the University of Maine in 1969. He has written many articles and books on Maine politics and federalism, including a study of the effects of term limits on the operations of the Maine state legislature. Upon his transition to professor emeritus, Palmer was cited by the Maine legislature and governor for his contributions to the state.

A long-time coordinator of UMaine’s Congressional internship program in Washington, D.C., Palmer also established a similar program in Augusta, which has been named in his honor.

Reservations for the lecture are requested and can be made by calling Kathryn Allan in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at 581-1954. Beverages and hors d’oeuvres will follow the lecture.

Maine Heritage Lectures are sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.