A 1992 analysis of the golden ratio written by UMaine professor of computer science George Markowsky was referenced in a New York Times blog post. The blog, about the legendary geometry concept, noted that Markowsky’s “Misconceptions about the Golden Ratio” analysis, which appeared in The College Mathematics Journal, is an early trenchant analysis of the […]
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Edwin Guarin, a senior academic developer evangelist for Microsoft in New England will be on the UMaine campus Friday for a variety of presentations. All presentations will be held in Neville Hall, room 120 (room changes due to high attendance will be posted on the door of 120 Neville). Guarin will offer from 1 p.m. […]
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The University of Maine will conduct a full-scale emergency communications system test on Thursday, Sept. 27. Outdoor sirens, which represent an integral part of the system, will sound for several minutes shortly after 2:15 p.m. Those sirens are audible throughout the UMaine campus and, under certain conditions, in parts of the surrounding communities. UMaine created […]
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Several University of Maine Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition faculty members and students were interviewed for a Portland Press Herald article about the popularity of UMaine’s food science and nutrition programs, in which enrollment has been growing at a time when numbers are down in other disciplines. Graduate student Brianna Hughes said one […]
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An article in the South Dakota Tri-State Neighbor agricultural news publication advanced an Oct. 1 composting demonstration and seminar being led by University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator and composting expert Mark Hutchinson. The presentation in Brooking, S.D., will include using composting as a way to dispose of animal mortalities. Contact: George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
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The Bangor Daily News interviewed former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, who was on the UMaine campus Tuesday for the annual Mitchell Lecture on Sustainability and also to appear at a rally hosted by the UMaine Democrats student group. Acknowledging that politics has always been rough and tumble, Mitchell also bemoaned the bitterness that […]
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Comments from University of Maine political scientist Mark Brewer were included in a Central Maine Morning Sentinel story about how national party officials’ lack of advertising on behalf of Republican House of Representatives candidate Kevin Raye could indicate that Democratic candidate Mike Michaud is out of reach of Raye. Brewer said party officials were enthusiastic […]
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David Handley and Jim Dill of University of Maine Cooperative Extension were interviewed for a Lewiston Sun Journal article about the spotted wing drosophila, a fruit fly that has Maine’s blueberry growers worried because it attacks ripening and not just rotten fruit. Handley, a vegetable and small fruit specialist based at UMaine Extension’s Highmoor Farm […]
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The University of Maine Intermedia MFA Program is presenting the first event in its Fall Visiting Lecture Series on Tuesday, Oct. 2. All of the presentations begin at 7 p.m. in Lord Hall and are free and open to the public. On Oct. 2, Jae Rhim Lee, a research fellow in the MIT Program in […]
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The Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine will honor Dana Connors, president of the Maine State Chamber of Commerce, as a Distinguished Maine Policy Fellow on Thursday, Sept. 27. At 2 p.m., Connors will lead a seminar, “The Role of a State Chamber in Economic Development: Examples from Maine,” in the […]
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