Media contacts: Sherry Treworgy, 581-1356 ORONO — In the next six years, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management estimates that millions of federal workers will retire or leave government careers for other jobs, creating a labor shortage that needs to be addressed now to prevent a crisis later. To assist in addressing those needs, the […]
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The University of Maine announced on Sunday that Corey Conner (Townsend, Mass.) of the cross country and women’s track and field team and Jeremy Bender (St. Paul,Minn.) of the men’s swimming team are the recipients of the 2011 “M” Club Dean Smith Awards. The awards are presented to the male and female student-athlete with outstanding […]
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Comments from retired UMaine mechanical engineering professor Dick Hill are included in an extensive Lewiston Sun Journal story about issues related to home heating oil use and Maine’s economy. Hill points out that “social adjustments” are part of the solution, noting that Americans have more residential space per person than people who live in other […]
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The Portland Press Herald published a Friday story profiling Ahsley Underwood, the former UMaine basketball player and Miss Maine who will be a contestant on the next series of the CBS reality program “Survivor.” The series, filmed last year in Nicaragua, premieres on Feb. 16.
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A Saturday Lewiston Sun Journal story includes the perspectives of Jonathan Farley of the UMaine computer science faculty, who has expertise on mathematical formulas that have been applied to the likelihood of a person finding love. Farley has created a lecture on the subject, entitled “How to Fall in Love with Mathematics.”
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Saturday’s Lewiston Sun Journal reported on a Friday Bates College presentation by Jim Dill of the UMaine Cooperative Extension faculty, providing health officials, construction industry personnel, landlords and others with information about bedbugs and how to deal with them. A television story on the presentation is on the WCSH/WLBZ Web site.
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Saturday’s Bangor Daily News included a front-page story about UMaine Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (LASST) project involving the development of wireless sensor technology for use in the jet engine maintenance industry and with particular relevance for military applications. The sensors are built to allow technicians to monitor the condition of engines and their […]
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President Kennedy’s blog is updated with his thoughts on a Friday Feb. 11 presentation scheduled for 2-3:30 p.m. at Minsky Recital Hall. Prof. Virginai Valian of Hunter College, an expert on gender issues in the workplace, will discuss “Why so slow? The advancement of women,” as the public kick-off event of UMaine’s Rising Tide initiative, […]
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Contact: George Markowsky, 581-3940 Egyptian graduate student Sherief Farouk of the Department of Computer Science at UMaine will discuss his perspectives on the popular revolt in Egypt Monday, Feb. 7, at 3 p.m. in Room 117, Donald P. Corbett Business Building. Farouk will offer a technological and personal perspective on the upheaval, coordinated over the […]
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An opinion column by UMaine Dean of Students Robert Dana about Maine’s growing drug abuse problems appeared in the Feb. 4 edition of the Bangor Daily News. Dana calls for a multi-pronged, community-wide approach to addressing the factors that drive demand for drugs and an acknowledgement that the problem exists.
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