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UMaine News – Friday, November 6, 2009
UMAINE NETWORK INTERRUPTION SUNDAY On Sunday morning, Nov. 8, UMaine will experience a major planned disruption in network connectivity for as long as five hours in some circumstances, when~UMS IT Services undertakes two projects requiring the shutdown of the system. One is an upgrade of core routers at the Neville Hall; the other is an upgrade and repair of the UPS serving most equipment in the UMS Orono center. The core router outage will cause connectivity outage for about 30 minutes, probably in the 7-8 a.m. period. The UPS outage will be brief, and at the end of the core router outage. To ensure a controlled shutdown and startup, most services may be unavailable from 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. or 10 a.m. Some services may exceed this window.
FEATURED AFRICA PROJECT INVOLVES UMAINE Development, habitat fragmentation, and climate change are threatening the wildlife of Kenya’s Nairobi National Park. Robert Lilieholm of the University of Maine School of Forest Resources is part of a collaboration that’s projecting future development patterns and modeling wildebeest behavior in order to identify management strategies that sustain both human and natural communities. One of the project’s lead researchers, Dr. Robin Reid of Colorado State University, recently discussed the work on “60 Minutes”.
NEW CLIMATE NEWS WEBSITE CREATED Recognizing the need for a centralized, neutral source of climate information specific to Maine, University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Maine Sea Grant has announced the launch of Maine Climate News at http://extension.umaine.edu/maineclimatenews. Produced in partnership with Maine State Climatologist George Jacobson, the site is intended to be a portal to local climate change science and research at the University of Maine and beyond, as well as a resource for news and climate-related activities throughout the state. A news release has additional detail here.
AFL-CIO HONORS SCONTRAS The Maine AFL-CIO has honored labor historian and UMaine Bureau of Labor Education researcher Charles Scontras with its President’s Award. Scontras received the award at the AFL-CIO’s recent 27th Biennial Convention in Bangor for “his lifetime of work collecting, writing, teaching and keeping alive Maine’s labor history.”
UMaine in the News
MAHON DISCUSSES MAINE ECONOMY John Mahon, director of the Maine Business School and dean of the College of Business, Public Policy and Health, discussed the state of the Maine economy and its slow recovery from the recession for a Channel 7 news broadcast Thursday evening. Mahon says Maine may be at the bottom of the recession but the next economic quarter will paint a clearer picture.
UMAINE FLU CLINIC REPORTED University of Maine H1N1 flu clinics Thursday for students considered at high risk for H1N1 flu virus were covered by Channel 7 (WVII) and the Bangor Daily News. Wayne Maines, director of safety and environmental management, was interviewed for the reports. He praised students for their voluntary self-selection. The clinic continues today, with as 800 students being vaccinated over the two-day period.
BUSINESS PROFESSOR’S FOLK FESTIVAL COLUMN IN BDN An opinion piece on the future of Bangor’s American Folk Festival as a free event, by Maine Business School faculty member Harold Daniel, who also is director of the Center for Tourism Research and Outreach, appeared in Thursday’s edition of the Bangor Daily News.
PEACE ACTIVIST’S TALK COVERED Channels 2 and 6 reported highlights from a talk Thursday by peace activist and author David Swanson, who appeared as a part of the UMaine Socialist and Marxist Studies lecture series. The Bangor Daily News also carried an article about the talk in today’s edition.
