The 2014 Employee Recognition and Awards Ceremony will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, 2014 in Wells Conference Center on the University of Maine campus. UMaine President Paul Ferguson, senior administrators and members of the campus community will celebrate employees who have reached 25, 35 and 45 years of service, […]
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A Story Collider podcast of a talk given by Skylar Bayer, a marine biology graduate student at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center, is now online. Bayer was one of four science enthusiasts to share a story as part of The Story Collider event “Charting New Territory” in Cambridge, Mass. Bayer’s talk, “Phoning home […]
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WABI (Channel 5) reported on the dedication of the University of Maine Emera Maine Power Systems Laboratory to benefit undergraduate electrical engineering and electrical engineering technology education. The lab, made possible by a $100,000 donation to the University of Maine Foundation from Emera Maine, is equipped to demonstrate concepts in electromechanical energy conversion and power […]
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Pamela Simpkins, a licensed social worker who is currently enrolled at the University of Maine in the master of social work program, wrote an analysis for the Sun Journal titled “We can make a difference in a child’s life.”
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The Weekly and The Maine Edge advanced the University of Maine School of Performing Arts’ spring production of “Grease.” Seven February performances of the musical are slated in Hauck Auditorium on campus. Admission is $15; tickets may be purchased online at umaine.edu/spa or at the door.
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A team of researchers from the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center won the Best Paper Award from the Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers at the 19th Offshore Symposium, Feb. 6 in Houston. The paper, “VolturnUS 1:8 — Design and Testing of the First Grid-Connected Offshore Wind Turbine in the U.S.A.,” […]
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Since 1998, University of Maine has been organizing trips for students to provide volunteer service to others. This year, Alternative Breaks, a student-run organization, will send out eight volunteer groups. The 101 undergraduate members and nine graduate students, and faculty trip advisers will volunteer one week of their spring break to work and travel. Volunteer […]
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University of Maine music professor Stuart Marrs has begun a five-country tour to teach master classes in percussion. The European leg began earlier this month at the Paris Conservatory of Music, where he offered master classes on the solo timpani works of Elliott Carter — pieces Marrs recorded on an interactive pedagogical DVD in 2006. […]
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Lenard Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging and professor in the UMaine School of Social Work, spoke with Mainebiz about UMaine’s effort to apply engineering to aging for an article about Maine retirees rejoining the workforce. Kaye said the initiative follows the example of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s AgeLab, which […]
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