Alumni

Media highlight UMaine students, alumni competing in 2022 Winter Olympics

The Boston Globe, USA Today Network, Bangor Daily News, Portland Press Herald, NBC Sports Chicago, News Center Maine, Courier-Gazette, WGME (Channel 13 in Portland) and KOBI (Channel 5 in Medford, Oregon) highlighted University of Maine students and alumni who will be competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The Sun Journal shared the Press […]

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Media report on Alumni Association’s MLK Day civil rights panel

The Portland Press Herald and WABI (Channel 5) reported on a civil rights panel hosted by the University of Maine Alumni Association and Greater Bangor Area Branch NAACP on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Watch a recording of the panel, “The State of Civil Rights in Maine,” online. News Center Maine also highlighted the event. […]

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Virtual MaineMBA Alumni Awards ceremony Jan. 20

Portland, Maine Mayor Kate Snyder will be the keynote speaker at the virtual MaineMBA Alumni Awards ceremony, which will be released as an event video at 5 p.m. on Jan. 20.  Other speakers participating in the inaugural event will be Dannel Malloy, Chancellor of the University of Maine System; Joan Ferrini-Mundy, President of the University […]

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Sun Journal, Piscataquis Observer advance Alumni Association’s MLK Day panel

The Sun Journal and The Piscataquis Observer advanced a panel hosted by the University of Maine Alumni Association in which multiple speakers, including Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey, will discuss the state of civil rights in Maine. The free, online event will be livestreamed on YouTube from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Monday, Jan. 17. Opening […]

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MLK Day Panel to Discuss ‘The State of Civil Rights in Maine’

Maine’s attorney general and four other individuals with differing personal and professional perspectives will address the topic “The State of Civil Rights in Maine” as part of eastern and central Maine’s 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. The free, online event will be livestreamed on YouTube from 9:30–10:45 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 17. The […]

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Media highlight Dunn joining UMaine ranks as a senior advisor

The Associated Press, Bangor Daily News and WABI (Channel 5) noted that retired Brig. Gen. Diane Dunn, a University of Maine alumna with 33 years of military service, was named senior advisor for special initiatives, reporting to UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy, effective Jan. 3. U.S. News & World Report, the Portland Press Herald and The […]

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Legacy Extension garlic project keeps growing in Maine gardens

For nearly a quarter-century, Dave Fuller has been teaching untold numbers of people ages 5 to 90 how to grow hardneck garlic. It’s been one of his areas of expertise as a University of Maine Cooperative Extension agriculture and nontimber forest products professional based in Farmington. He has provided hands-on training for commercial growers and […]

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Ryan Moore: A career in banking

Ryan Moore graduated from the Maine Business School in 2005 with a major in Marketing. He is currently finishing his Ph.D. in marketing with the University of the Cumberlands in Williamsburg, Kentucky. A native of Millinocket, Maine, Ryan is clearly the king of multitasking. “My undergraduate education gave me two things: my curiosity about marketing […]

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