By Staff
A newly planned, $75 million state university for future engineers and computer scientists won’t have a single campus.
The Maine College of Engineering, Computing and Information Science is expected to draw on resources across the University of Maine System and its physical locations.
Participants include faculty and staff at the University of Maine and the University of Southern Maine as well as most other campuses in the public university system. Industry advisory boards, K-12 educators, nonprofits and fundraising organizations will also be taking part.
Planning for MCECIS got underway Thursday with a “virtual vision session” involving 180 participants, according to a news release.
Deep Water: ‘Willow Street,’ by Jonathan Aldrich
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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This week we feature a poem by the accomplished and much beloved Cape Elizabeth poet Jonathan Aldrich, who passed away last week. In “Willow Street,” from Aldrich’s first book, the speaker describes a place “not far from here” that also seems to be something more than a place. As the poem weaves gracefully between the tangible and the abstract, the space and state it conjures feel both mysterious and deeply, timelessly familiar.
Aldrich wrote over a dozen books in his 40-year career as a poet. At Harvard College, he won the William Lloyd Garrison Prize for poetry and the Academy of American Poets Award, and he was a Frost Scholar at The Bread Loaf School of English. His translation of Charles Baudelaire’s “Le Voyage,” illustrated by Allison Hildreth and hand-printed by David Wolfe Productions, won a Baxter Society Award. Aldrich also taught English at
‘A lot of people are struggling’: Pandemic adds to challenges facing college students
Campuses are responding with emergency relief funds, technology and food distribution as students face hardships brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Sunny Lamb is a student at Maine College of Art who relies on her part-time job at the school’s library. She had to utilize her savings while the school was fully remote, but has been able to go back to work for the upcoming semester.
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When her college went remote last spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, Sunny Lamb suddenly lost access to her part-time job as a student worker in the campus library. She dipped into savings to help pay her living expenses.
LEWISTON Maine College of Health Professions has appointed alum Ken Albert, chief executive officer of Androscoggin Home Healthcare and Hospice, as its board chairman. A 1986 graduate of the college’s nursing program, Albert has been on the board since 2017. He will lead the eight-member board, which is charged with serving as stewards of […]