On Thursday, Sept. 18th, University of Maine alum Yvan Bedard, PhD returned to the school to give a presentation entitled Beyond GIS: Spatial On-Line Analytical Processing and Big Data. Dr. Bedard recently retired from a very successful career as a Professor of Geomatic Sciences at Université Laval, where he had worked since graduating from UMaine. read more Yvan Bedard: UMaine PhD Led to Major Success