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New from Special Collections and Projects: Student Heritage Alliance Council

The Special Collections and Projects Department in Fogler Library has added new records from the Student Heritage Alliance Council (SHAC) to the online archival content management tool ArchivesSpace. The records include copies of the SHAC constitution, bylaws, and mission statements. There are also SHAC meeting agendas and minutes; funding requests; reports; and promotional material, including event posters, fliers, […]

Kannan Sockalingam '00, '02G with his wife Visa and their two kids

Gratitude Corner: Kannan’s Story

Kannan Sockalingam ’00, ’02G was an involved international student at UMaine while working on his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering. Two decades after graduation, Kannan remains involved with his alma mater by serving on the OIP Advisory Board and through his philanthropy. His friendships from his student days at UMaine remain strong. Last […]

2025 International Dance Festival. A celebration of dances from around the world. Free admissions. For more information call 581.3437 or visit umaine.edu/international. Saturday, February 22 2pm and 7pm. Collins Center for the Arts University of Maine.

Save the Date: International Dance Festival!

Rehearsals for the 2025 International Dance Festival are underway! The performers are excited to showcase their cultural traditions on stage at the Collins Center for the Arts on February 22 with the usual matinee and evening performances. This year we have 14 groups performing, representing 12 countries. It is amazing to see the progress each […]

Winter Programming and First Week of the New Semester

At the start of the holiday break, students took a trip down to the Stillwater River on a chilly winter night to check out the holiday lights put on by the town of Orono. After the New Year, OIP secured a number of tickets for a Men’s Ice Hockey game versus Denver University, bringing around […]

Alumni Visits!

Brothers Tega and Ruona Dibie stopped by Coffee Hour for a surprise visit! Tega earned a Bachelor’s degree in August 2014 and returned to UMaine in the Fall 2015 to pursue a Master’s degree in Spatial Information Science & Engineering. Ruona earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering in December 2015, and returned in 2017 to pursue […]

Nastasya Tsultsumova ’18

The University of Maine is proud to recruit outstanding and accomplished students such as the MBA student Nastasya Tsultsumova ’18. She joined the Maine Business School last fall fresh from the annual G(irls) 20 Summit in Beijing, where she represented her native Russia as one of 23 delegates. She has work experience in the corporate […]

Student Success Stories – Stephanie Littlehale

Stephanie Littlehale, an international affairs major with a minor in legal studies, will graduate in May 2012 with a GPA of at least 3.8, an admirable accomplishment for any student, but even more remarkable considering some of the challenges this first-generation college student has overcome since high school. As a high school student, Littlehale found […]

Student Success Stories – Casey Faulkingham & Aiko Van Landeghem

Aiko Van Landeghem & Casey Faulkingham For Casey Faulkingham of Houlton, it was a chance to live in a bustling European city and to work with children and refugee families from Afghanistan, Russia and Morocco. For Aiko Van Landeghem of Belgium, it was an opportunity to experience campus life and hometown culture in Maine and […]