USM Public Affairs

Watch the Maine gubernatorial debate, held in USM’s Hannaford Lecture Hall, online at WMTW.com.  An article about the debate is also available along with the video.

Adjunct Professor of English Michael Bendzela wrote a review of a chapter in the new book, “The Impending World Energy Mess,” for the October 12 Energy Bulletin.

LAC Associate Professor Liz Turesky, and Assistant Professor of Music Dan Sonenberg were both interviewed by Gail Wartell on WMPG’s “Tuesday Night Talk Club” about USM’s recent Pineland Conference. (No link available.)

Read the October 18 Lewiston Sun Journal to learn about the State Legislature Candidates Forum at Lewiston-Auburn College.

USM is offering a new scholarship for transfer students from Maine community colleges.  Read all about it in the October 18 Portland Press Herald.

USM Professor of sociology Luisa Deprez is quoted at length in the October 17 Portland Press Herald article concerning state assistance programs.

Read the October 15 Times Record to find out about the USM women’s basketball team’s annual Huskies’ Shooting Clinic, scheduled for November 7.

Read the October 15 Bowdoin Orient article about USM School of Music’s performance of “Bach’s B-minor Mass” in Bowdoin’s Studzinski Recital Hall. On October 20, The Portland Press Herald’s Christopher Hyde reviewed the performance.

Read the October 13 Portland Press Herald article on classroom crisis, in which Pat Red, lecturer of teacher education, is quoted about teacher training for positive intervention.

The University of Southern Maine was recently recognized at the Maine Compact for Higher Education Symposium for its support of higher education.  The October 12 Village Soup article mentioned USM by name.