Alumni

UMaine Career Fair Featured on WLBZ

WLBZ (Channel 2) covered the University of Maine Career Center’s 17th annual UMaine Career Fair at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. About 120 employers from Maine and around the country with job and internship opportunities exhibited at the fair. Several graduate and professional schools, as well as branches of the military, also were represented […]

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UMaine Advanced Manufacturing Center, Maine MEP Announce Partnership

The University of Maine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC) has entered into a new agreement with the Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership (Maine MEP) that will expand the center’s capacity, Maine MEP announced. The partnership, which will place a Maine MEP project manager at AMC, will promote closer collaboration between the organizations with the goal of enhancing […]

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UMaine Career Fair Postponed

Due to the predicted snowstorm, the University of Maine Career Center has postponed its 17th annual UMaine Career Fair. The fair, which was previously scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 28, is now scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 11. The fair will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. All previous […]

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Marine Sciences exchange students

School of Marine Sciences Program Gives Students a Global Perspective

Kathleen Marciano’s interest was piqued last spring when professor Fei Chai announced in class that summer marine science internships were available in China. Marciano and friend and classmate Timothy (TJ) Goodrow decided to apply. In May, they learned they had been accepted and in mid-June, the University of Maine students boarded a plane destined for […]

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UMaine Career Fair Jan. 28

Editor’s note: Due to the predicted snowstorm, the UMaine Career Fair has been rescheduled to Wednesday, Feb. 11. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the New Balance Student Recreation Center. All previous employer registrations will be honored. The University of Maine Career Center will hold its 17th annual UMaine […]

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Media Report Gendron to Donate Portion of Salary to Standbrook Fund

Several media outlets, including the Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News, WABI (Channel 5) and WVII (Channel 7) reported University of Maine men’s ice hockey coach Red Gendron will annually donate 5 percent of his salary to the Grant Standbrook Maine Hockey Forever Fund. Tom and Sally Savage have pledged $1 million to match endowment […]

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Bangor Metro Highlights Entrepreneurial Graduates

Several Bangor Metro entrepreneurial award recipients are graduates of the University of Maine. Abe and Heather Furth, who graduated in 2004, own Verve, Woodman’s Grill and The Orono Brewing Co. “Brewery tourism is growing, and we hope that our brewery will help bring more people to Orono. We think this will help Orono become the […]

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Hall of Famer Touts Teammates, UMaine in BDN

After being inducted into the National Football Foundation College Hall of Fame, University of Maine graduate and football all-star John Huard spoke highly of his Black Bear teammates in a Bangor Daily News article. “The University of Maine was phenomenal and our guys were really close … I just reflect back to the fact that […]

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