Saturday, January 30, 2021 by Sarah McCammon (NPR)
Many Americans are feeling like they ve lost loved ones to a web of conspiracy theories and false information circulating online.
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On Jan. 6, Hilary Izatt was watching TV when she began to worry.
“My husband and I are both political scientists; we’re kind of nerdy; we watch C-SPAN a lot,” Izatt says. “And when we were watching C-SPAN is when the rioters started breaking into the Capitol.”
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Many Americans are feeling like they ve lost loved ones to a web of conspiracy theories and false information circulating online.
On Jan. 6, Hilary Izatt was watching TV
when she began to worry. My husband and I are both political scientists; we re kind of nerdy; we watch C-SPAN a lot, Izatt says. And when we were watching C-SPAN is when the rioters started breaking into the Capitol.
Izatt, 39, is a doctoral student in political science at the University of Michigan. She says her dad, who lives in Utah, had told her he was traveling to Washington, D.C., to join the massive pro-Trump rally planned for that day.
May 21, 2020
This article was written by Colin Flahive, with contributions from Mike s friends and family.
The Kunming international community lost a beloved member on Friday, May 8, when Mike Medcalf died in a tragic accident while traveling in Zhejiang, China.
Mike was a loving husband, a father of two, a caring brother and a devoted son. He was a musician, a poet, an artist, a philosopher, an educator, a good friend to so many and one of the kindest people in the Kunming international community. He had a strong character, a clever wit and a light-hearted sense of humor. Armed with a mischievous smile and a sly, staccato laugh, he was always quick to find ways to lighten the mood. He was a strong supporter of social justice, was very nonjudgmental of others and had an incredibly generous heart that often led him to sacrifice his own time in order to help out his friends. Those of us who knew him were all made better because of him.
Lessons Learned in MLC Continue to Influence Neil Anderson â03
The travel opportunities he received through the University of Maineâs Modern Languages and Classics Department helped put Neil Anderson, â03, on the path to success by allowing him to hone his language skills in French and Spanish and prompting him to delve further into his studies.
Anderson, who graduated from UMaine with a bachelorâs degree in Spanish and a minor in French, went on to earn a masterâs degree in Spanish from Middlebury College in Vermont and now is a Ph.D. student in Spanish at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.