Contact: Prof. Kate Beard (207) 581-2188; Joe Carr (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Me. — Some 30 national-level experts gathered in Portland Jan. 24-26 to discuss current thinking about ubiquitous computing, the idea that computers embedded in our environments can react to human preferences and adjust accordingly. One commonly used example is a system that knows when […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Rethinking the role of communication in a post 9/11 world will be the focus of a three-day conference at the University of Maine, June 28-30, sponsored by the National Communication Association. Highlighting the conference will be keynote addresses by Constance Penley, director of the Center for Film, […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO –M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, professor of geography and international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, will present a seminar on environmental geography and policy at the University of Maine at noon on Thursday, March 22 in Norman Smith Hall. Wolman, a National Academy of Sciences member, pioneered the study […]
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Contact: Gretchen Gfeller, (207) 581-1696 ORONO, Me. — The Russians were newly experimenting with parliamentary democracy, the British Army was withdrawing from a foreign country, a senator resigned his seat, and the Maine Legislature hassling over the University of Maine budget allocation. Yesterday? Last week? No, all this happened in early March 1907 when Congress […]
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Contact: Karel Lidral, 581-1256; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO – The University of Maine’s Chamber Jazz Ensemble will present its annual spring concert — a program of rich jazz standards — on April 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Leonard and Renee Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall. The program includes great jazz classics from […]
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Contact: Ruth Hallsworth, 207-581-3196 ORONO – The myths and realities of our water supplies will be the feature presentation at the 2007 Maine Water Conference at the Augusta Civic Center on March 21. M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman, professor of geography and international affairs at Johns Hopkins University, will deliver the plenary presentation on that subject. […]
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Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4115; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Page Farm and Home Museum is hosting two public events, March 23 and March 25, to acknowledge the sweetest sign of spring — maple syrup season. On March 23, Kathryn Hopkins, a UMaine Cooperative Extension horticulturalist and expert on maple trees and […]
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Contact: Louise Kirkland, 207-942-7396, 1-800-287-1485 ORONO– During Extension Living Well Week, March 11-17, University of Maine Cooperative Extension will offer a variety of workshops statewide, including “Parenting Through Separation and Divorce’ in Oxford County, “Home Budgeting” in Franklin and Piscataquis counties, “Creating Nutritious Low-Cost Meals” in Aroostook County, and an eating healthy session for parents […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — University of Maine civil engineering students will have better access to state-of-the art laboratory equipment thanks to a $75,000 pledge from a Gray company co-founded by the son of a professor who taught at the Orono university for close to 40 years. The gift from Gorrill-Palmer Consulting […]
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Contact: Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, 581-3124; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, UMaine professor of food science and human nutrition, has been named a Senior Fulbright Specialist, and plans to spend part of a semester-long sabbatical at the University of Milan’s Department of Food Science and Nutrition in Italy studying the health benefits of blueberries. From […]
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