Several media outlets, including Channel 5 (WABI) reported on Wednesday’s annual job fair, which was held in the Student Recreation and Fitness Center. More than 80 employers and hundreds of students attended the job fair, which was also covered by the Bangor Daily News.
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An op-ed in the Portland Press Herald supporting the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, known as TANF, mentioned the work of Sandra Butler, UMaine associate professor of social work. Thomas Chalmers McLaughlin, associate professor, director of online education and co-director of the Center for Research and Evaluation at the University of New England’s School […]
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The Portland Press Herald reported about the findings of a study conducted by the Maine State Chamber of Commerce and Maine Development Foundation which concluded the UMaine System must better align its academic programs with the needs of the business community. The report, “Making Maine Work: The Role of Maine’s Public University System,” can be […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Prof. William O. Bray of the University of Maine Department of Mathematics and Statistics has published an advanced undergraduate level textbook entitled “A Journey into Partial Differential Equations,” Jones and Bartlett Learning Inc (2011). More about the book is available online.
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Contact: (207) 581-3245 The University of Maine’s Department of Art is presenting “Scissor / Paper / Light: Installations,” an exhibition by Brooklyn, N.Y.-based visual artist Joan Grubin who creates dimensional installations in paper Feb. 4 – March 18 in the Lord Hall Gallery. Grubin’s work deals with issues of perception, color, and optical illusion. She […]
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Contact: Steve Colburn, (207) 581-1982 ORONO — University of Maine accounting students are providing free assistance to the public for federal and state income tax return preparation again this year at the Orono Public Library, Friday afternoons through April 15. The students are supervised by Steve Colburn, associate professor of accounting in the Maine Business […]
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Contact: Howard Segal, 581-1920 ORONO — Many Americans can remember exactly what they were doing when they heard the news 25 years ago on Jan. 28 that space shuttle Challenger had exploded 73 seconds after launch, but many may be unaware of the historical and technological significance of the tragedy. University of Maine history Professor […]
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Contact: Scott Anchors, (207) 581-1927 ORONO — It’s not your father’s job market. That’s the message a Maine Business School lecturer and researcher has discovered in surveys over the last few years of his students. Jobs, careers, motivation and expectations have shifted significantly since the days when people sought jobs for the long term and […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, was quoted in a CBSNews.com story about links between global warming and extreme weather incidents. Mayewski said humans may be changing weather patterns such as El Nino and La Nina, which could mean less stable weather patterns in the future.
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Comments from UMaine economics professor Gary Hunt are featured in a Wednesday Bangor Daily News story about Tuesday’s wind energy conference in Augusta. Speaking at the conference, Hunt described the investments necessary to make deepwater offshore wind power cost-effective. Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed Caroline Noblet of the UMaine economics faculty for a similar story at […]
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