USM Hosts Spring NES-MAA Conference
Portland, ME — The University of Southern Maine (USM) welcomed mathematicians, educators, and students from across the Northeast to its Portland campus for the … Read More
Students and Faculty Present AI Research at CSCNE 2025
A University of Southern Maine (USM) team presented their innovative research at the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeastern Conference (CCSCNE). The presentation, titled “Large … Read More
Mentorship in Action: Engaging Students in Research
Two Research Papers Accepted to Prestigious IEEE/ACIS SERA 2025 Conference We are proud to announce that two research papers led by our students and … Read More
Students’ Paper Accepted at ACM SIGIR
Aidan Bell and James Gore have an accepted paper titled “Augmenting Cross-Modal Art Retrieval: The Role of MLLM-Synthesized Captions” at ACM SIGIR 2025. SIGIR … Read More
Student Interns Over Summer Before Starting Graduate School
Ethan Gilles is a senior Computer Science student at USM. Ethan has developed a well-rounded understanding of computer science principles through his coursework in … Read More
The Contingent Professor: Advice for Adjuncts
Professor Emeritus, Robert Sanford, and former member of the Environmental Science & Policy department, Daniel Martínez, have published a new book. The Contingent Professor: … Read More
ESP student Ian Mowatt receives 3rd place research poster award at the 2025 Northeast Natural History Conference
Congratulations to ESP’s Ian Mowatt! This research began under the 2023-2024 MEIF-funded Maine-Greenland Collaboration grant. Ian joined this research in 2024, when he received a … Read More
Computer Science Students Honored for Excellence in Academics, Research, and Innovation
During its annual awards ceremony, the Department of Computer Science celebrated its brightest minds, recognizing exceptional undergraduate students’ academic achievements, research, innovation, teaching, and … Read More
Dubyak Seminar Series
Dr. Jian Wu, Old Dominion University Title: Toward Uncertainty-aware Data Extraction from Complex Scientific Tables Abstract: Scientific tables offer a compact format for reporting … Read More
Environmental Science & Policy students present at the American Association of Geographers Conference in Detroit.
Students, Kaitlyn MacPhee & Lily Newton and ESP Associate Professor, Vanessa Levesque presented their poster “Explorations of Resilience Adaptive Capacities in Rural Maine Municipalities” at the American Association of Geographers Conference in Detroit this March.