Contact: Owen Smith, (207) 581-4389 ORONO — The 2010 exhibition “Without Borders VII: Intermedia” is now open and continues through Sept. 24 at the University of Maine’s Lord Hall galleries. The festival and exhibit presents a variety of art that exists “between” traditional art forms, and includes such new media as computer-based generative art, documentation […]
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Prof. Jon Ippollito of the UMaine New Media faculty is quoted in a technology report on an Australian news Web site about his 12-year-old son’s Legohacker blog. The blog details the young man’s work with LEGO kits, building original creations from parts shipped in a kit for making a specific object. His latest efforts involve […]
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The University of Maine is launching a new media center that school officials say will help create jobs and strengthen the state’s economy.
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BASS HARBOR, Maine — An ancient freshwater lake, now submerged under salt water off the coast of Mount Desert Island, offers insights into how Maine’s coastline was formed and how those areas that are now under water became habitable for the state’s earliest settlers.
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Contact: Velma Figgins (207) 581-4358 ORONO — The New Media Innovation, Research and Development Center scheduled to open at UMaine in 2012 is being designed to help the state tap the multi-billion-dollar digital film, gaming and animation fields, which will lead to growth opportunities for the state’s new media companies and the university. “That this […]
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Contact: Susan Lambrecht Smith, (207) 581- 2017 ORONO — Research by University of Maine Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders Susan Lambrecht Smith is helping to refine speech and language skills of preschoolers as predictors of reading disability. A longitudinal study by Smith and three colleagues — Kathleen Scott and Jenny Roberts of Hofstra […]
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Contact: Pete Elias, (207) 581-2097; George Manlove (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — According to a new study led by University of Maine psychologists and epidemiologists, high blood pressure is indirectly related to lowered physical ability by way of lowered cognition. Professor Pete Elias (Merrill F. Elias) and colleagues have established the relationships using a comprehensive […]
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Contact: Mary Ellen Camire, (207) 581-1627; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — As Maine’s congressional delegation and the Maine Potato Board lobby the USDA to rescind its recent decision to exclude the potato from eligible fruits and vegetables available to WIC program participants, a UMaine food science and human nutrition professor is offering science-based evidence […]
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Contact: Brian Robinson, (207) 581-2174 ORONO – University of UMaine anthropologist Brian Robinson and colleagues are looking at archaeological evidence of Atlantic salmon to better understand the effects of global warming. The researchers found traces of Atlantic salmon from 400, 3,000 and 6,000 years ago, with the earliest periods being warmer than present and relatively […]
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Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine Department of Mathematics and Statistics recently inducted new members into the mathematical honor society Pi Mu Epsilon, and recognized outstanding mathematics graduate students and undergraduate research assistants during its annual Mathematics Award and Recognition ceremony. The department also awarded more than $17,000 in scholarships to […]
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