Students in the Spotlight

  • Juan Luis Garcia, a doctoral student in Earth Sciences, is awarded Organization of the American States graduate scholarship.

    Posted November 5th, 2009 - Juan Luis Garcia, a doctoral student in Earth Sciences, has been awarded a 2010-2011 graduate scholarship from the Organization of the American States (OAS) for up to two years, valued at $30,000/year. Further information on OAS scholarships is at:
    http://www.educoas.org/portal/en/oasbecas/about.aspx. Garcia is researching glacial geology in southern Chile under the guidance of Dr. Brenda Hall.Mr. Garcia's research focuses on the glacial history of the Torres del Paine region of southern Chile and its implications for understanding the origins of ice ages and abrupt climate change.

  • Intermedia MFA graduate student John Bell

    Posted October 9, 2009

    His essay, "Opening the Source of Art," can be viewed at:The abstract of the essay reads: "The open source community has developed a number of tools and philosophies to assist in distributed software development. The Still Water Lab at the University of Maine believes that these tools and philosophies can be adapted to facilitate other forms of distributed creative endeavors. It has developed two tools that reinterpret the ideas used in open source software through the lenses of artistic creation and preservation: The Pool and the Variable MediaQuestionnaire. This article discusses how several of the ideas used in software development have influenced Still Water's approach to making tools that support artistic production."The Open Source Business Resource (OSBR) is a free monthly publication of the Talent First Network. The OSBR is for Canadian business owners, company executives and employees, directors of open source foundations, leaders of open source projects, open source groups, individuals and organizations that contribute to open source projects, technology transfer professionals, and government employees who promote wealth creation through innovation.

      Intermedia MFA graduate student John Bell's research has recently been recognized in the October issue of the online journal Open Source Business Resource.  The article gives an overview of his research work at UMaine with professor Jon Ippolito and others.
     

  • James Killarney a Doctoral student in Chemistry

    James KillarneyPosted July 23, 2009

    James Killarney a Doctoral student in Chemistry recently won the $100 dollar cash prize for the best new student poster presenter at the regional Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Conference is Durham, N.H.  Killarney's poster explained "Fluorescence Spectroscopy as a Rapid, Cost-Effective Method to Monitor and Analyze Low Levels of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCP) in Environmental Water Samples."  Killarney's work is focused on using synchronous scan and Excitation-Emission Matrix (EEM) fluorescence spectroscopy as an analytical tool to identify low levels of PPCP's in Maine waters.

  • UMaine Center for Teaching Excellence honored graduate teaching assistants Anna J. Schliep and Adam Barker-Hoyt with 2009 Teaching Assistant Awards

    Adam Barker-Hoyt

    Posted May 22, 2009

    The UMaine Center for Teaching Excellence has honored graduate teaching assistants Anna J. Schliep and Adam Barker-Hoyt with 2009 Teaching Assistant Awards. Schliep, a Bangor native, who teaches in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will receive the Teaching Instructor Collaboration Award. Barker-Hoyt, of Howard Lake, Minn., will receive the Teaching Instruction Award; he teaches in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. More details are at UMaine News online.

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