Contact: Andrei Kurbatov (207) 581-2840; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – Scientists at the University of Maine have received a $436,546 grant from the National Science Foundation to extend climate records back to three million years using ice samples from the Allan Hills Blue Ice Area in East Antarctica. Andrei Kurbatov, an assistant research […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Professor Harlan J. Onsrud at the University of Maine has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Law in Australia at The University of Melbourne during February and March 2009, according to the UnitedS tates Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. […]
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Contact: Joe Carr (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Bangor-area high school students will soon have the unique opportunity to learn about documenatry film, interactive design and performance art from members of a renowned traveling artist collective called Slightly Askew. The University of Maine New Media Department will coordinate the workshops, set for April 21-25 in Bangor. […]
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Contact: Gretchen Gfeller, (207) 581-1696 ORONO–What do you do in Maine with a graduate degree in Greek and Latin studies? Well, in the case of Tim Spalding, who also honed skills as a web developer and publisher, you launch www.LibraryThing.com. Originally created as a way for Spalding to catalog his own library, he did not […]
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Contact: Prof. Kate Beard (207) 581-2188; Joe Carr (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Me. — Some 30 national-level experts gathered in Portland Jan. 24-26 to discuss current thinking about ubiquitous computing, the idea that computers embedded in our environments can react to human preferences and adjust accordingly. One commonly used example is a system that knows when […]
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Contact: Anne Schmidt, (207) 581-1259, Joe Carr, (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Hundreds of Maine middle school girls will spend a day at the University of Maine on Thursday March 16, learning about math- and science-oriented careers historically pursued by males. Coming from all corners of the state, more than 400 girls will attend UMaine’s 20th […]
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Contact: Sharon Steele, (207) 581-1968, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756 ORONO — The Federal Bureau of Investigation agent who heads the FBI’s counterterrorism, counterintelligence, criminal computer intrusion, cyber crime and Computer Analysis Response Team programs for the northeastern region of the United States will speak to UMaine business students and the public about cyber crime on […]
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