All students and faculty are invited to attend the Center of Academic Excellence in Geospatial Sciences site visit presentations that start at 1:30 pm on Wednesday Oct 26 in Room 336 Boardman Hall. We look forward to seeing you there. NGA/USGS Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) Site Visit Agenda October 26 2016 1:30 Introductions and […]

The VEMI (Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction) Lab is hosting its annual Open House on September 21st from 4-6PM. We are located in Carnegie Hall and would like to extend an invitation to all (students, faculty, friends, family, and children) who would like come by and check out the new projects we have been working […]

Interested in cyber security? Join the UMaine Cyber Security Club! There will be a free barbecue on Friday, April 22nd in the DTAV/Patch quad. For more information, visit the club’s event page here.  

Recently, the University of Maine chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity toured Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maine. While VEMI and SCIS has become well known for their STEM outreach in the community, this time they looked inward to give a help the University of Maine Community. The students […]

The VEMI Lab is pleased to announce that four lab-authored papers were accepted to the 2016 HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) International Conference, to be held in Toronto this upcoming July. Lead authors are VEMI graduate students Christopher Bennett, Hari Palani, Hengshan Li, and R.J. Perry. Citations for the papers are as follows: Bennett, C.R., Corey, R.R., […]

In anticipation of NSF funding for the project “Empowering Multi-Conceptual Spatial Reasoning with a Repository of Qualitative and Quantitative Spatial Ontologies”, Professor Hahmann is looking for two graduate students (at the Master or PhD level in Spatial Information Science and Engineering or in Computer Science) to work with him on this project. The students will […]

Congratulations to our own Dr. Nicholas Giudice, who was recently elected to the Board of Directors for The Iris Network. The Iris Network is a leading nonprofit organization that is advancing policy, research, and training to assist blind and visually impaired people in Maine and across the nation. They specialize in helping visually impaired people attain independence, […]

On February 23rd, SCIS faculty and students affiliated with the Virtual Environment and Multimodal Interaction (VEMI) Lab wil be traveling to Lincoln Academy in Newcastle. The group will be speaking to students about math and science, the VEMI lab, and even exhibiting some of the exciting work that the lab has been doing in virtual reality. This […]

Unlike any time before, society is at risk of cyber-attacks and lives under the oppressive threat of information being stolen with a “click.” The emerging threats against the electric grid and other elements of the country’s Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) have created an ever-increasing need for men and women to defend it. The […]

On Wednesday, February 3rd, students are invited to attend the 2016 UMaine Career Fair, which will be in the New Balance Recreation Center from 10 am to 3 pm. Open to all UMaine undergraduate and graduate students, this event will feature 140 businesses, universities, and graduate programs from Maine and around the country. Many of […]