Contact: George Markowsky, (207) 581-3940; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 Computer hacking isn’t always a bad thing, despite what typically comes to mind when you hear the term. Historically, in some technical communities, a hack was an especially elegant solution to a problem. Hence a hacker was someone who could write beautifully elegant code to solve […]
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Contact: Jennifer Vincent, (207) 776-3129 ORONO — With friends and family in attendance, the University of Maine’s second-year women’s honor society, the Sophomore Eagles, inducted 13 young women into the society during a ceremony at the Sigma Chi Heritage House on April 19. The women were chosen from a pool of about 35 first-year female […]
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Contact: Barbara Smith, Division of Student Affairs, (207) 581-1734; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777; Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Maine – The University of Maine campus will be filled with Black Bear pride Wednesday, April 29, with the annual celebration of Maine Day. In 1935 President Arthur Hauck inaugurated Maine Day, a day set aside for […]
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Contact: Jeff St. John, (207) 581-3477 ORONO, Maine — The UMaine Center for Teaching Excellence has honored graduate teaching assistants Anna J. Schliep and Adam Barker-Hoyt with 2009 Teaching Assistant Awards. Schliep, a Bangor native, who teaches in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will receive the Teaching Instructor Collaboration Award. Barker-Hoyt, of Veazie, Maine, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 or joecarr@maine.edu. ORONO — Students from two University of Maine Dept. of New Media classes will present their work at a Thursday evening Idea Expo, scheduled for 6-8:30 p.m. at the Foster Student Innovation Center. The event will include both displays and informal presentations featuring the work of students […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 or joecarr@maine.edu ORONO — The University of Maine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture has recognized three faculty members with annual awards. Dean Edward Ashworth announced the 2009 award winners for research, teaching and public service at the college’s April 15 awards event. Prof. Paul Mayewski received the research […]
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Contact: Sarah Johnson, (207) 581-3213 ORONO — The Bangor Area Storm Water Group (BASWG) is looking for community groups, businesses, families, and individuals to help with the fourth annual Regional Stream Cleanup, beginning in Bangor on Saturday April 25. The BASWG, University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the Maine Conservation Corps will host the event […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s College of Engineering and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have teamed up to offer a formal dual-degree program, in which students can graduate in five years with degrees from each college. “Combining an engineering degree with a liberal arts degree gives students […]
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Contact: Professor Merrill Elias, 581-2097; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — A team of University of Maine psychology and epidemiology researchers and Australian colleagues reported in a recent issue of the medical journal “Hypertension” that arterial stiffness related to high blood pressure and advancing age are associated with performance deficits in multiple cognitive abilities. “Hypertension” […]
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Contact: Howard Segal, 581-1920 ORONO — The annual initiation of UMaine’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter will take place Thursday, April 23, at 3 p.m. in the McIntyre Room of Buchanan Alumni House. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest scholastic honor society, and UMaine has one of only four chapters in the state. Phi Beta […]
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