Newspaper story details construction
A Saturday Bangor Daily News report provided details about recent and ongoing construction projects at UMaine. Elaine Clark, UMaine’s executive director of facilities, real estate and planning described the $70 million worth of construction during the current year, along with the ways in which the university has leveraged five percent of that total to bring in outside funding to support academic programming and other initiatives. Prof. Owen Smith also commented in the story, describing upgrades to Stewart Commons that will provide improved facilities for art and new media teaching and research.