Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News includes a brief preview of a Thursday Oct. 14 UMaine lecture, “Faking Ancient Mesoamerican Art,” by Karen Olsen Brhuns, director of the Cihuatan-Las Marias Archaeological Project for the Fundacion Nacional de Arqueologia in El Salvador. The talk, part of UMaine’s observance of Maine Archaeology Month, is scheduled for the Bodwell Area […]
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Wednesday’s Bangor Daily News reports that a $1 million federal grant will support UMaine research related to the development of tidal energy off the Maine coast. UMaine engineering Prof. Michael “Mick” Peterson is quoted in the report, which details the study as it relates to potential environmental impact.
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Contact: George Markowsky, 581-3940 In spite of a spate of nonsensical movies and articles about how the world is going to end in 2012, George Markowsky, professor and chair, Department of Computer Science, Homeland Security Lab at UMaine, will discuss a potentially unpleasant event on the horizon for 2012. He’ll discuss it Thursday, Oct. 7 […]
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The Morning Sentinel has posted a story about the five Maine gubernatorial candidates’ visits Tuesday to the UMaine campus. Republican candidate Paul LePage was the first to meet with the UMaine community.
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Contact: Andre Khalil, (207) 581-3911; George Manlove (207) 581-3756 ORONO, Maine — A method developed by a University of Maine mathematician to get a much more detailed look at cellular morphology has the potential to aid in early cancer detection. Andre Khalil, a UMaine assistant professor of mathematics and cooperating assistant professor of physics, has […]
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Contact: Aaron Putnam; Peter Koons, 581-2158, peter.koons@maine.edu The first installment of the 2010 Climate Change Institute INT500 workshop series Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 4-5:30 p.m. at UMaine is a workshop and keynote lecture by Columbia University Professor of Earth and environmental sciences James D. Hays, an internationally recognized expert on the role of polar oceans […]
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Contact: Mick Peterson (207) 581-2129 or michael.peterson@maine.edu ORONO – A group of University of Maine researchers, headed up by UMaine Libra Foundation Professor of Engineering Michael “Mick” Peterson, has received a $1 million grant from the Department of Energy to continue developing environmental impact protocols at the site of a tidal-power turbine near Eastport and […]
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A review by English Department faculty member Steve Evans, coordinator of the New Writing Series at UMaine, of three works of contemporary poetry appears in the Oct. 18 online edition of The Nation. The piece is part of the publication’s “Shelf Life” series, a monthly column by various writers that discuss three books on a […]
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Contact: Gretchen Faulkner, (207) 581-1904 ORONO — The Hudson Museum will host a free, public lecture by Karen Olsen Bruhns, one of the leading authorities on Pre-Columbian fake artifacts from Mesoamerica and the South American Andes, Thursday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. Bruhns is director of the Cihuatan/Las Marias Archaeological Project for the Fundacion Nacional […]
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UMaine has received a $821,065 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, according to LibraryJournal.com. UMaine and other partners will use the grant for a statewide Maine Shared Collections Strategy project to define a strategy for share management of legacy print collections and to explore new ways of delivering content to […]
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