Thirteen University of Maine computer science and engineering students traveled to Binghamton University last weekend to take part in the America East Hackathon. At the two-day competition, students from universities in the America East Academic Consortium used coding and other skills to address civic challenges by building hardware and desktop, web and mobile applications. UMaine […]
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The National Center for Women in Technology (NCWIT) and Google.org have awarded the University of Maine $3,000 to establish a student chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery-Women in Computing (ACM-W). UMaine is one of seven institutions to receive a 2016 NCWIT seed grant to develop a new a chapter of the ACM-W. The funding […]
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The Fogler Library at the University of Maine will offer “Introduction to R for Data Analysis and Visualization” from 6–8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17 in Fogler’s Library Classroom. This seminar will offer new users a hands-on introduction to R, one of the most dynamic and widely used programming languages in the world. R is a […]
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Steve Evans, associate professor of English at the University of Maine, will be the closing speaker, and Jennifer Moxley, professor of English at UMaine, will be a featured poet at the bilingual conference, “Les archives sonores de la poésie: Production, conservation, utilisation (Recording in Progress: Producing, Preserving, and Using Recorded Poetry),” Nov. 24–25 in Paris. […]
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Storyteller Mike Daisey takes on Herman Melville’s masterpiece of revenge, fate and whaling terminology in a hilarious 90-minute monologue at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. Daisey, who was born in Fort Kent and graduated from Nokomis Regional High School and Colby College, weaves […]
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Laura Cowan, chair of the University of Maine English Department and professor of English, will present Wednesday, Nov. 16 as part of Fogler Library’s “Books in My Life: Reading that Transforms” series. Cowan will speak at 7 p.m. in the Fogler Library Classroom. The event is open to any UMaine students, faculty or staff. In […]
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Six University of Maine students will put their computer hacking skills to the test this weekend at the second Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition at Rochester Institute of Technology. The UMaine students, most of whom are computer science majors, will compete against students from nine other universities. By racing each other to hack into computer networks, […]
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About 35 students in University of Maine professor Will Manion’s CET 458 Management of Construction course will present service learning projects on Friday, Nov. 4. This fall, two teams planned and managed projects at Leonard’s Mills in Bradley and Hirundo Wildlife Refuge in Alton. The teams will present both projects to the UMaine Industrial Advisory […]
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The University of Maine Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) Omega Mu chapter invites teams to compete in a “Humvee Push” noon–3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5 to raise money for the United Service Organizations (USO) to support U.S. troops. The team that pushes a Down East Emergency Medical Institute Humvee 20 yards in the Belgrade parking lot […]
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Marie Olesen Urbanski Whittaker, a former University of Maine professor, feminist and liberal activist, passed away Oct. 24. She was 94. Whittaker was an English professor at UMaine for more than 20 years where her scholarship focused on the contributions of Margaret Fuller, a 19th century feminist and visionary, according to Whittaker’s obituary. Glamour.com recently […]
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