Maine Calling – Faculty

Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic talks “Winter light” with Maine Calling

Mary Pols — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:38:26 +0000

Associate Professor of Physics and Chair of Physics and Astronomy, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic was a guest on Maine Calling for on Dec. 19, 2025 in advance of the winter solstice.

Diamond-Stanic, whose research focuses on the evolution of galaxies and the growth of supermassive black holes through cosmic time, was joined on panel by Sarah Tuttle, host and producer of Maine Public Classical and Jessica Miller, host of Weekend Edition and radio operations announcer for Maine Public. His job? Explaining the science.

But he also spoke on the way the approaching solstice is celebrated in his native Serbian culture. He described Slava as a way to celebrate something that we are all experiencing but do not have control over. “Coming together in moments of otherwise darkness to bring light is really human [tendency],” Diamond-Stanic says.

Carrie Diaz Eaton discusses AI: Privacy & Security on Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” program

Mary Pols — Wed, 07 May 2025 23:49:01 +0000

Associate Professor of Digital and Computational Studies Carrie Diaz Eaton was part of a rich discussion . Diaz Eaton discussed the widely varying attitudes of her students to AI and talked about her course “Calling Bull: Data Literacy and Information Science,” which she’ll be teaching in Fall 2025. It’s a course she teaches regularly, but in recent years, discussion of AI has become a more substantive portion of that course. “Because you’ve got misinformation being created at a scale, on purpose or not,” Diaz Eaton told listeners. Panelists included Michael Donihue, interim director at Colby’s Davis Institute for AI, Bowdoin’s Fernando Nascimento, assistant professor, digital and computational studies, and from the Roux Institute, Berkeley Almand-Hunter, technical director of partner products.