College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

jbergeron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:00:10 +0000

Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition

Darwin After Dark

jbergeron — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:22:48 +0000

Political Scientist Palmer is Maine Heritage Lecturer Nov. 5

jbergeron — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:23:33 +0000

ORONO — In the second annual Maine Heritage Lecture, UMaine professor emeritus of political science Kenneth Palmer will speak on “Maine’s Paradoxical Politics,” Thursday, Nov. 5.

The lecture, at 4:30 p.m. in the university’s Wells Conference Center, is free and open to the public.

Palmer is a political scientist who began teaching at the University of Maine in 1969. He has written many articles and books on Maine politics and federalism, including a study of the effects of term limits on the operations of the Maine state legislature. Upon his transition to professor emeritus, Palmer was cited by the Maine legislature and governor for his contributions to the state.

A long-time coordinator of UMaine’s Congressional internship program in Washington, D.C., Palmer also established a similar program in Augusta, which has been named in his honor.

Reservations for the lecture are requested and can be made by calling Kathryn Allan in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at 581-1954. Beverages and hors d’oeuvres will follow the lecture.

Maine Heritage Lectures are sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Smithsonian Experts to Present Lectures

jbergeron — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:58:19 +0000

Two renowned archaeobiology experts from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History will visit UMaine next week for lectures presented by the Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute.

Bruce Smith, Smithsonian curator of North American archaeology, will discuss “Everything You Need to Know About the Origins of Agriculture” Monday, November 2 at 4 p.m. in Room 100 of the Bryand Global Sciences Center.

Melinda Zeder, Smithsonian archaeobiology program director, will discuss “Pathways to Animal Domestication” at 2 p.m. November 4th in Memorial Union’s Bangor Room.

The archaeobiology program is part of the Smithsonian’s anthropology program. It hosts more than 4,000 cubic feet of archaeobiological collections, conducts research in zooarchaeology and archaeobotany, and operates a significant outreach program. Its role within the Smithsonian is to explore “the history of human interactions with plants and animals.”

Career Day – Mathematics at the National Security Agency

jbergeron — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:29:55 +0000

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Career Day – Actuarial Opportunities

jbergeron — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:50:28 +0000

CareerDayPoster

CMJ Research Colloquium

jbergeron — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:40:24 +0000

Karen Hutchins: Land Debates about Maine’s North Woods

Home Bound: Understanding Immigrant Experiences in 21st Century America

jbergeron — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:38:10 +0000

Silka Colloquium

jbergeron — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:53:06 +0000

Silka Colloquium

A Celebration of Darwin

jbergeron — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:41:41 +0000

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. In The Origin, arguably the most important work of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, Darwin proposed the theory of Natural Selection which provides a mechanism for how biological organisms change through time. Natural Selection is the foundational theory for all of biological science, and provides baseline discussion on evolutionary thought in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other sciences as well.

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A Celebration of Darwin