University of Maine Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science George Markowsky’s tutorial on cybersecurity tools is one of the featured tutorials at WorldComp’12, an international conference held in Las Vegas for computer science, computer engineering and applied computing that is expected to attract more than 2,000 participants from all around the world. […]
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The University of Maine is hosting its annual Maine Summer Transportation Institute, a hands-on, interactive program to teach youngsters about some of the exciting careers in engineering and transportation. About 20 area middle-school students are participating in the institute, which runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday until July 20. Students are […]
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University of Maine football coach Jack Cosgrove will host “Coach Cos’s Football 101 For Women” from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 2 in the Alfond Lounge inside Alfond Arena. The interactive workshop is designed to teach women basic football such as offensive and defensive strategies as well as what to look for […]
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension and the University of New Hampshire will host a pasture walk from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 10, at Balfour Farm in Pittsfield. The event will include presentations about organic dairy farms, pasture intakes and dairy cow diets. The pasture walk is open to the public and […]
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Photographs from the recent book coauthored by Paul Mayewski, the director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, will be displayed July 6-28 in a San Francisco art gallery. The Canessa Gallery will show restored period photographs and other images from “Journey Into Climate: Adventure, The Golden Age of Climate Research, and the Unmasking of Human Innocence,” […]
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Recently the University of Maine recognized 2,026 students for achieving Deans List honors in the Spring 2012 semester. Of the students who made the Deans List, 1,728 are from Maine, 242 are from out of state, and 56 are from foreign countries. Listed below are students who received Deans List honors for the 2012 Spring […]
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University of Maine President Paul Ferguson has been elected to serve a two-year term on the steering committee of the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). His term begins July 1. ACUPCC is a consortium of 677 colleges and universities committed to reducing carbon emissions and aggressively promoting energy efficiency. The 33-member steering […]
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Adrienne Leppold, a University of Maine Ph.D. candidate in the School of Biology and Ecology, has been awarded a Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation fellowship for her work studying songbird migration in the Gulf of Maine. Leppold works with UMaine bird biologist Rebecca Holberton, who leads the Northeast Regional Migration Monitoring Network. More information about […]
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A University of Maine Hudson Museum video of an interview with Passamaquoddy basketweaver Molly Neptune-Parker of Princeton, Maine, was posted on the National Endowment for the Arts website as part of an announcement that Neptune-Parker was named one of nine National Heritage Fellows. The video was created by the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance and the […]
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The America East Conference has announced that the University of Maine had 134 of its winter and spring student-athletes named to the 2011-12 America East Honor Roll. Students had to earn grade-point averages of 3.0 or higher to receive the recognition. Out of those 134 student-athletes, 74 were named to the America East Commissioner’s Honor […]
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