The University of Maine Center on Aging recently received two grants from the United Way of Eastern Maine to continue two popular programs, the Center’s RSVP organization of community volunteers over the age of 55, and the RSVP Bone Builders exercise education program.
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The brilliant fall stars will shine in the night sky and under the dome at UMaine’s Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium, as planetarium Director Alan Davenport rolls out the October schedule. Public programs start in Friday, Oct. 7 with shows every Friday evening at 7 p.m. through December. Shows geared toward young stargazers are on the […]
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The Hudson Museum at the University of Maine is offering a special showing of the 2010 documentary “Cave of Forgotten Dreams,” by acclaimed independent filmmaker Werner Herzog about the discovery of the ancient Chauvet Cave in southern France. The cave contains what are believed to be the oldest human cave drawings ever found. The film […]
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UMaine chemistry Ph.D. candidate James Killarney, who works with Prof. Howard Patterson in the Patterson Research group, will present his work to members of Congress and Environmental Protection Agency administrators on Capitol Hill next June. Working in the second year of a EPA STAR Fellowship, Killarney focuses on chemometric modeling of pharmaceutical contamination in water. […]
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Three 2010 University of Maine graduates are partnering with the Maine Business School and the Foster Center for Student Innovation to create the first annual Maine Business Challenge, a competition to financially assist student entrepreneurs from UMaine to start a business.
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University of Maine Ph.D. student Robert Gee has received a Fulbright Award to conduct research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is spending nine months at Dalhousie researching a project titled “Tangled Trawls: International Natural Resource Management in the Northwest Atlantic Fishery.”
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Faculty development and diversity specialist Joann Moody will visit UMaine on Tuesday Sept. 13 through Thursday Sept. 15. She will conduct a series of small group sessions involving College of Liberal Arts and Sciences chairs, directors and peer committees on Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday she will meet with people in similar roles in the […]
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Marybeth Allen of the UMaine Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders recently was named the Speech-Language Pathologist of the Year by the National Stuttering Association (NSA). The association recognized Allen during its annual meeting in Fort Worth, Texas for her outreach and organization efforts on a national level on behalf of youths who stutter.
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Stephen Bush, an internationally recognized expert on the connection between communication technology and electric power grids, will discuss “Communication for the Smart Grid” at the University of Maine’s Barrows Hall on Thursday Sept. 22. Bush’s presentation, scheduled for 3:15-4:15 p.m., is part of an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) seminar, presented by the […]
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The field of nanoscience has shown that the smallest of particles are sometimes the strongest. Research into these infinitesimal objects – whose dimensions range from a few nanometers to less than 100 nanometers; by comparison, a sheet of paper has a thickness of 100,000 nanometers – has also shown these particles are well-suited for use […]
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