Month: March 2017

In November 1985, the eruption of Nevado Del Ruiz in Columbia caused a massive mudslide which took an estimated 25,000 lives. Such sheer wreckage is hard to comprehend. Stalin famously said that one death is tragedy, a thousand...

The short film A Glimpse of Life: The Pulitzer Photographs focuses on photography and what an impact it can have.  The pictures shown have all won Pulitzer Prize, which is one of the biggest honors as a journalist.  The film...

Daniel Burger is 18 years old  and is from southern Maine who never really left his hometown much. After graduating from his local high school he, like many other young adults, decided to go to college. He applied to UMPI and...

“You walk though and you hear English, French, German, Old German….”  It isn’t just the food that keeps Kim-Anne Perkins coming back to the Presque Isle Farmers’ Market.  It’s the sense of a community gathering place.  “Maine is...

Some say that art is one of the most versatile and beautiful things that the Earth has to offer.  Nobody knows that better than Monica Quist.  Quist, 24, is graduating in May with her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from UMPI. ...