The Institution of Engineering and Technology in the U.K. has bestowed its prestigious IET Wireless Sensor Systems Premium Award to Ali Abedi of the University of Maine electrical and computer engineering faculty for a paper, “Signal detection in passive wireless sensor networks based on back-propagation neural networks,” which he co-authored and published in March 2011 […]
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William Elsemore has been appointed UMaine Bursar and Senior Finance Officer. He begins his duties Sept. 10. Elsemore replaces longtime UMaine Bursar Dennis Casey, who retired earlier this year. Elsemore has served the University of Maine System for many years in various positions, most recently as Assistant Director of Administrative Systems Development and Support for […]
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The Maine Folklife Center at the University of Maine has a new exhibit on Maine Memory Network website, developed from its oral history research with Eastern Fine Paper Company in Brewer. With images dating back to the early 20th century, the exhibit profiles the company from its inception in 1889 to the mill’s closure in […]
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Gregory Zaro, associate professor of anthropology and climate change at the University of Maine, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research at the University of Zadar in Croatia during the Spring 2013 semester. According to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Zaro […]
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University of Maine graduate student Sarah Morehead will be the keynote speaker at a Sept. 22 event for men and women interested in learning more about money and how it affects their lives. “Fall Into Financial Fitness” will be held from 8:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Eastport Hall on the Bangor campus of the […]
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David Gross, professor emeritus of English at the University of Oklahoma, has been named interim dean of the University of Maine Honors College, where he has been a part-time faculty member since 2005. Gross has been endorsed by University of Maine System Chancellor James H. Page and recommended to the Board of Trustees as interim […]
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The University of Maine School of Performing Arts, with license from the American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact, is offering on Wednesday, Sept. 26 a student reading of “8,” the Broadway play chronicling California’s Federal District Court trial Perry v. Schwarzenegger, now Perry v. Brown, challenging the state’s Proposition 8, a constitutional provision […]
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Kathleen P. Bell, an associate professor in the School of Economics, has received an international Sören Wibe Prize from the Swedish Journal of Forest Economics for an article she coauthored in 2011 on evaluating programs designed to protect forests from the invasive forest pest hemlock woolly adelgid. Bell and coauthors Thomas P. Holmes, a U.S. […]
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The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS) closed Thursday, Aug. 30, with the unveiling of the finished sculptures and a closing ceremony in the University of Maine’s Steam Plant parking lot. SISS, a partnership this year with UMaine, was a 6-week artist-in-residence program that brought eight sculptors from Maine and around the world to Orono, where […]
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University of Maine professor of history Howard Segal was elected the New England District Senator for the Phi Beta Kappa honor society during the organization’s recent Triennial Council in Palm Beach, Fla. His term is for six years. The senate is Phi Beta Kappa’s governing body. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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