Segal Quoted in Story on Challenger Disaster Anniversary
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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New Textbook by Math Prof. Bray
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.
Read moreNew Lord Hall Exhibit Features New York Artist
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 […]
Read moreReflecting on Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
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 […]
Read moreFarley Profiled in Book on Jamaica
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.
Read moreCobo-Lewis Column in Tuesday BDN
Tuesday’s Bangor Daily News includes an op-ed column by Alan Cobo-Lewis of the UMaine psychology faculty. In the column, Cobo-Lewis expresses concern about two provisions of Maine’s supplemental budget bill, both of which relate to Child Development Services. CDS, as Cobo-Lewis describes it in the column, “provides early intervention and early childhood special education to […]
Read moreNews Story Highlights Spinoff Business Growth
Comments from Sen. Susan Collins are featured in a Friday Bangor Daily News story about the continuing growth of Orono Spectral Solutions (OSS), a high-tech business started by UMaine chemistry professor Carl Tripp. OSS hosted Collins and others on Thursday at the opening of its new and expanded facility in Bangor. Incorporated in 2004, OSS […]
Read moreCoast Guard Academy Professor to Address Oil Spill Response
ORONO — LCRD Gregory Hall, a chemistry professor at the U.S. Coast Guard Acadamy, will visit the University of Maine for a Thursday Jan. 27 Dept. of Chemistry colloquium, “Chemical Issues in Oil Spill Response and Forensics.” His presentation is scheduled for 428 Aubert Hall at 11 a.m.
Read moreMedia Cover Graduate Student’s Ancient Dog Find
Discovery News, the website of television’s Discovery Channel, wrote about a UMaine graduate student’s discovery of the oldest domesticated dog in the Americas, a find based on bone fragments the student discovered a human paleofecal sample. The New York Times also ran a story about the find, as did the Pakistan Daily Mail.
Read moreMath Professors Conduct University of Malaya Workshop
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 Ramesh and Pushpa Gupta, professors in the University of Maine Department of Mathematics and Statistics, were invited to conduct a workshop on mixture models in statistics, organized and funded by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Malaya, December 28, 2010. Ramesh presented two one-hour lectures: “Frailty […]
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