Contact: Cindy Paschal, 581-2841 More than 100 summer, temporary and permanent outdoor jobs will be available for UMaine students on Tuesday, Feb. 15 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Wells Conference Center. More than 20 employers will be available to discuss job opportunities with students. On-site interviews will be conducted from 2-5 p.m., […]
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Contact: George Markowsky, (207) 581-3940 UMaine students are invited to gather today from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in Room 100, Neville Hall, to learn about the upcoming international Imagine Cup 2011 competition sponsored by Microsoft and designed to bring out the best in information technology creations by the world’s young software developers. Imagine Cup is a team-based, […]
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Contact: Rita Cooper, (207) 329-6320 or president.ewb.um@gmail.com The University of Maine student chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-UMaine) is urgently seeking donations to fund the construction of a community sanitation system in the small town of Dulce Vivir, Honduras, where poor sanitation conditions limit economic opportunities of the residents and cause environmental and health concerns. […]
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Contact: Ashish Deshpande, (207) 581-2180; George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO – Medical science and engineering technology have taken great strides toward the development of prosthetic hands since the implementation of steel hooks, and a University of Maine researcher in the College of Engineering is pushing the envelope revolutionizing hand prosthetics with novel robotics technology. Mechanical […]
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Contact: Charlie Slavin, (207) 581-3262 or slavin@honors.umaine.edu; Keith Hutchison, (207) 581-2827 or keithh@maine.edu The University of Maine has been selected to take part this year in the Science Education Alliance, a national program of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that seeks to develop resources for undergraduate science educators to present innovative courses and programs. First-year […]
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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.
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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 […]
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Contact: Steve Colburn, (207) 581-1982 ORONO — University of Maine accounting students are providing free assistance to the public for federal and state income tax return preparation again this year at the Orono Public Library, Friday afternoons through April 15. The students are supervised by Steve Colburn, associate professor of accounting in the Maine Business […]
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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 […]
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Contact: Mary Ellen Camire, 581-1627 The Consumer Testing Center in the University of Maine Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition is looking for about 100 volunteers to provide opinions of fresh tomatoes on Tuesday, Jan. 25. Volunteers can participate in one of two different sessions: 11 a.m.- 1:30 p.m., or 4-5:30 p.m. Testing sessions […]
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