Talk of the Towns 11/14/08

Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Topic: Gender Divide in Maine Schools

What do we know about how boys and girls develop and learn?  What led to the gender divide research and who was involved?  What were the results and how do these relate to significant trends?

Guests: Georgia Nigro, Bates College, Dept. of Psychology; Layne Gregory, Executive Director, Boys to Men;  Craig Kesselheim, Great Schools Partnership; Troy Wagstaff, Director of Guidance, Hampden Academy

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FMI: www.greatschoolspartnership.org/pdf/MaineBoysNetwork_2008Report.pdf

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RadioActive 11/13/08

Producers/Hosts: Meredith DeFrancesco and Amy Browne

Today we take a look at local reactions to the news that the U.S. has elected it’s first African-American President—ranging from hope to racism, and back to hope— as the community pulls together in opposition to racism. Interviews with Assata Sherrill and Dan Lourie; Then we talk with Paul Mayewski of the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute, about their on-going lecture series.

What did the election of Obama mean to Assata Sherrill, a local African-American woman who has led efforts to provide education and dialogue about race?  How has the community responded to acts of racism?  How can people learn more about climate change?

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 11/13/08

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

On this program, we’ve often looked at technologies which have the potential to impinge on the liberty and privacy of individuals. To see what a world might look like in which a combination of technologies, all of which are available today, are deployed by the state – in the name of combating terrorism, of course – check out “The Last Enemy,” a program set in the London of the very near future. It depicts what it might be like to live in such a world in a way no science report ever could.

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