Contact: Leisa Preble, (207)581-1016 A first-hand look at the 2010 earthquake in Chile by William Desisto, associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Maine, is the topic for the Department of Physics & Astronomy’s Friday, Feb. 4 colloquium at 3:10 p.m. in 137 Bennett Hall, a free and public event. Desisto’s talk, “Reflections […]
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Contact: George Markowsky, (207) 581-3940 UMaine students are invited to gather today from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in Room 100, Neville Hall, to learn about the upcoming international Imagine Cup 2011 competition sponsored by Microsoft and designed to bring out the best in information technology creations by the world’s young software developers. Imagine Cup is a team-based, […]
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The Bangor Daily News has a story about three UMaine students who have fled Egypt in the wake of unrest in that country. Andrea Groves, a UMaine graduate student in anthropology, was studying at the American University in Cairo and fled to Jordan. Karen Boucias, director of UMaine’s Office of International Programs, told the newspaper […]
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An article by UMaine Department of Communication and Journalism faculty member Michael Socolow was cited and excerpted for publication in the Winter 2011 edition of The Wilson Quarterly, published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Socolow’s peer-reviewed article details the history of the highly profitable New York Times op-ed page, considered something of […]
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A UMaine graduate student’s discovery of a bone from the oldest domesticated dog yet identified in the Americas was featured on CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks show Samuel Belknap found the 9,400-year-old bone in a paleofecal sample, providing early evidence man considered dogs as food sources.
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A Saturday Bangor Daily News story featured UMaine history professor Howard Segal’s perspectives on the 25th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
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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: 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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The Jamaica Observer’s “Wignall’s World” column notes that Jonathan Farley of the UMaine computer science faculty is profiled in a new book, “Jamaica’s Gifts to the World,” a series of profiles of Jamaicans of notable achievement.
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