The University of Maine’s 2018 valedictorian is Graham Van Goffrier of Norwell, Massachusetts and the salutatorian is Brianna DeGone of Turner, Maine. They will be honored at UMaine’s 216th Commencement in Harold Alfond Sports Arena May 12. Van Goffrier will receive a bachelor’s degree in physics, with minors in electrical engineering, mathematics and nanotechnology, and […]
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In January 2017, while Cameron Fudge was a student at Southern Maine Community College in Portland, he took a weeklong biomedical training course taught by Kristy Townsend, an assistant professor of neurobiology at the University of Maine. The course, which was offered to SMCC students, focused on investigating fatty liver disease and took students through […]
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The University of Maine Career Center will host International Career Day on April 4. An International Career Panel will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the Career Center, located on the third floor of the Memorial Union. Professionals will speak about their career path and discuss the future and importance of international careers. Panelists scheduled […]
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SPIFFY, the Maine Business School’s student investment club, has won first-place in a worldwide portfolio competition. The competition was part of the Quinnipiac Global Asset Management Education (GAME) VIII forum March 22–24 in New York City, in which 1,500 students from more than 160 colleges and universities had the opportunity to interact with industry leaders […]
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Applications are now being accepted for the 2018–2019 Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Scholarship. The $3,500 scholarship is open to undergraduate students of all majors who are conducting independent research on a topic related to public policy. To be eligible for the scholarship, students must be a Maine resident currently enrolled at UMaine and taking […]
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The UMaine Business Challenge presented by Business Lending Solutions, Maine’s largest college business plan competition, has announced this year’s finalists. The seven-year-old competition is open to student entrepreneurs from Maine colleges or universities with businesses headquartered, or soon to be headquartered, in the state. Vying for more than $20,000 in cash and prizes, the students […]
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Twenty-one University of Maine faculty have received tenure and/or promotion. The faculty members were nominated by UMaine President Susan J. Hunter based on a peer and administrative review of their successful teaching, research and public service, and approved by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. “UMaine’s world-class faculty are at the heart of […]
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Abstract submissions for the 2018 University of Maine Student Symposium on April 17 are now being accepted. The UMaine Student Symposium, a campuswide celebration of achievement in student research and creative activity, will be held at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the […]
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Exploring national parks as a teen during a family cross-country trip made a lasting impression on Kayla Greenawalt. “It made me want to be around that environment and protect the environment,” says the University of Maine ecology and environmental sciences major. Greenawalt, who returned from a research trip to the Falkland Islands with Ph.D. student […]
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The Portland Press Herald interviewed Stephanie Welcomer, a professor of management at the University of Maine, for an article about the retirement of York Hill Farm’s cheesemakers. John and Penny Duncan, makers of award-winning goat cheese, quietly retired in October after four decades in the business, according to the article. Welcomer, whose work focuses on […]
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