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: Scott Anchors, (207) 581-1927 ORONO — It’s not your father’s job market. That’s the message a Maine Business School lecturer and researcher has discovered in surveys over the last few years of his students. Jobs, careers, motivation and expectations have shifted significantly since the days when people sought jobs for the long term and […]
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Paul Mayewski, director of UMaine’s Climate Change Institute, was quoted in a CBSNews.com story about links between global warming and extreme weather incidents. Mayewski said humans may be changing weather patterns such as El Nino and La Nina, which could mean less stable weather patterns in the future.
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Comments from UMaine economics professor Gary Hunt are featured in a Wednesday Bangor Daily News story about Tuesday’s wind energy conference in Augusta. Speaking at the conference, Hunt described the investments necessary to make deepwater offshore wind power cost-effective. Channel 7 (WVII) interviewed Caroline Noblet of the UMaine economics faculty for a similar story at […]
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Channel 5 (WABI) broadcast a Tuesday news story about two students’ efforts to bring the national online magazine Her Campus to UMaine. Shaina Dennis and Macey Hall were interviewed for the story, describing the magazine, which is aimed at an audience of college women.
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a story about a UMaine student who suffered cold-weather related injuries to his hands on Saturday night. The incident led UMaine police to issue a Sunday morning alert reminding students to take precautions when venturing outside during extremely weather conditions.
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The Tuesday campus visit by James Page, a candidate for the UMaine president’s job, was covered by the Bangor Daily News, WABI and WVII. Page, the CEO of the James W. Sewall Co. in Old Town, will be followed by three other finalists over the next two weeks. More information on the UMaine search is […]
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