School News

Geospatial Scholarly Literature Resources

Geospatial Journals – For a quick overview of geospatial journals available through the electronic resources of Fogler Library, check out the web page at https://spatial.umaine.edu/geospatialjournals/ Use your student or faculty ID at http://library.umaine.edu/ to search for articles of interest in any of the journals and download the full text articles. Some resources are open to the […]

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Spatial PhD Funding Opportunity

Under the new EPSCoR SEANET – http://umaine.edu/epscor/maine-epscor-programs/seanet/ project we are seeking prospective students with a master’s degree in geographic information science, computer or information science, or ecology and environmental science with GIS experience, to pursue a Ph.D. and research on approaches to heterogeneous data and model integration, spatio- temporal context modeling, or spatio-temporal decision support […]

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UMaine Cyber Security Club Announcement

UMaine CyberSecurity Club Contact: info@cybersecurity.maine.edu Website: cybersecurity.maine.edu Meeting times: Monday & Wednesday @ 6:00pm and Saturday @ 10:00am Meeting place: 224 East Annex (White building next to Neville) The University of Maine CyberSecurity Club is a group of cyber security researchers and enthusiasts that meet several times a week. We have guest speakers from the […]

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COS 125 Game Dress Rehearsal and Exhibition; Buyers Wanted

As has been usual practice in the past, the COS 125 class will have its dress rehearsal for their Game Exhibition on Tuesday 12/9 from 11:15 am to 12:15 pm in the Soderberg Center located in Jenness Hall at the University of Maine. At the dress rehearsal we have need of volunteers who play the […]

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Summer Internships Now Available at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security!

Now accepting applications for U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 2015 HS-STEM Summer Internships The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sponsors a 10-week summer internship program for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in homeland security related science, technology, engineering and mathematics (HS-STEM) Disciplines. The program provides students with quality research experiences at federal research […]

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The Not-So-Golden Ratio: A Talk by Prof. George Markowsky

November 12, 204, 3:30-4:20 PM Hill Auditorium, Barrows HallSnacks at 3:15 PM The Not-So-Golden Ratio Prof. George Markowsky School of Computing and Information Science University of Maine The Golden Ratio, also called by different authors the Golden Section, Golden Number, Golden Mean, Divine Proportion, and division in extreme and mean ratios, has captured the popular […]

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VEMI Lab Technology Allows Researchers to Observe the Effects of Aging First-Hand, Bangor Daily News Reports

The Virtual Environments and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Laboratory and the Advanced Manufacturing Center opened their doors to Maine Health Access Foundation members for a tour on Thursday, October 30th. The topic of the tour was the Successful Aging Initiative for Living, the University of Maine’s cross-disciplinary effort involving research and development seeking to “hinder the effects of an […]

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Robot Interaction Laboratory Receives Advanced Mapping Robots as a Donation

The Robot Interaction Laboratory at the School of Computing and Information Science (director: Dr. Reinhard Moratz) recently got a donation from the Maine-based company PenBaySolutions (Chief Technology Officer: Stuart Rich) of three advanced mapping robots. Currently the students Chris Dorr and Seraphina Orsini are working with the equipment to build augmented indoor maps. This will help to further […]

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