ORONO — University of Maine master’s student and personal financial planner Sarah Morehead has recently published a book, I Hate Money! Understanding Your Financial Attitude, presenting the basics of finance and consumer attitudes that can interfere with sensible handling of money and credit.
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Passamaquoddy basketmaker Gerald “Butch” Jacobs will conduct a free public basketmaking demonstration Friday, June 3 from 10 a.m. to noon at the UMaine Hudson Museum in the Collins Center for the Arts.
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Twenty UMaine students, along with Spanish professor Kathleen March, are currently in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras on a 16-day service learning study trip doing volunteer work. One of the students, Angela Bowen, is volunteering at an orphanage and describing her experiences in a blog. Contact: Angela Bowen (angela.bowen@umit.maine.edu)
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Two graduate students, members of the Research Group for Industrial Ecology, LCA and Systems Sustainability (IELCASS) at UMaine, have received National Science Foundation travel grants to present research projects at the 15th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference and 5th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry in June.
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Paul Myer, executive in residence in the Maine Business School, is reporting daily on the UMaine MBA travel-study trip to Japan. Myer and students are visiting Tokyo and Kyoto. Contact: George Manlove, 581-3756
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John Mahon, the John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy in UMaine’s business school, is leading a group of MBA students on a trip to Russia. Mahon’s blog, which features a number of photos, details the experience including visits to Russian businesses and cultural attractions. Angie Bohovich, one of the trip’s participants, […]
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Associate professor of communications and journalism Claire Sullivan recently received a faculty award from a statewide coalition of 18 Maine higher education institutions dedicated to promoting service learning and community engagement.
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ORONO — As use of cell phones is banned in some university classrooms, one course at the University of Maine requires them.
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ORONO — Six teams of UMaine mechanical engineering technology (MET) students who squared off for an unusual engineering Senior Design Competition recently found that sometimes simplicity is best.
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The public is invited to attend a cultural roundtable discussion and colloquium May 20-22 in Soderberg Auditorium in Jenness Hall, at which more than two dozen of the leading voices of the Franco-American experience will share their work and discuss cultural identity.
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