UMaine News

The staff at Fogler Library is reminding faculty members that it maintains a webpage expressly for them, with links to useful internal and external services and information. News items about the status of any library project requiring faculty input, new books on order and announcements of new databases on trial can be found there. There […]

The University Bookstore at the UMaine is joining with the American Library Association in its observance of “Banned Books Week” Sept. 25-Oct. 2 and encouraging public participation by reading a book under attack by would-be censors. A news release has additional information.

Contact: Amanda Ashe, 581-1480 UMaine’s Office of Research & Sponsored Programs will hold an informational workshop, “ORSP102: The Pre-Award Process,” Wednesday, Oct. 13 from 9-10:30 a.m. in Soderberg Lecture Hall, Jenness Hall. ORSP holds a series of workshops throughout the year for faculty and researchers about the process of securing and managing extramural funding and […]

Contact: Jesse Moriarity, 581-1454 The UMaine Foster Center for Student Innovation is holding two discussion sessions, today from 6-7:30 p.m., and Sept. 22, from 4-5:30 p.m., to discuss and advise prospective entrepreneurs on small business creation. Today, Martha Broderick, a practicing attorney and professor of business law in the Maine Business School, will discuss the […]

UMaine President Robert Kennedy was named Saturday night the winner of the 10th Wilma Award, which is given by UMaine’s Collins Center for the Arts to a member of the community or a business who has made substantial contributions to the center and to the promotion and enhancement of cultural activities in Maine. The award […]

The UMaine Tackle Football Club home opener is Saturday, Sept. 18 at 5 p.m. at Morse Field against Clarkson University’s Holden Knights. Gates open at 4 p.m. This inaugural Yankee Collegiate Football Conference game will be preceded by pre-game Youth Day activities for young fans and the NFL pass, punt and kick competition at 11 […]

Contact: Lauren Wagner, 581-1796 The UMaine Bodwell Center for Services and Volunteerism’s Civic Passage program is recruiting students and university employees with a little free time and a desire to help others. Current volunteer project sites include the Maine Mental Health Association in Bangor, which needs some painting done in the afternoon on Sept. 15, […]

A performance by experimental music percussionist and UMaine alum Paul Bosse, who studied music and art, will follow the Without Borders VII: Intermedia exhibit reception Thursday, Sept. 16 from 5-7:30 at the Lord Hall Galleries. Bosse is scheduled to perform at 8 p.m. on the fire extinguisher bells exhibit between the Sculpture Building and Murray […]

Contact: Alan Parks, 581-2320 ORONO — The University of Maine’s TRIO-Student Support Services program, helping Maine’s first-generation, low-income and students with disabilities achieve bachelor’s degrees, has received renewed funding — almost $3 million from the U.S. Department of Education. Program Director Alan Parks estimates the five-year grant will assist 400 students in each of the […]

President Barack Obama has nominated University of Maine alumnae Pamela Ann White, a Career Minister with the Senior Foreign Service, to be the State Department’s U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia. White, who received a B.A. in Journalism at UMaine in 1971, has served since 2008 as the USAID Mission Director in Liberia. […]