UMaine News

The next in a series of one-hour information-gathering sessions President Ferguson has organized over the next few weeks to solicit input for UMaine’s strategic plan will focus on Research from 10-11 a.m. today, Feb. 1, in the McIntire Room of Buchanan Alumni House. An afternoon session also today, from 2-3 p.m. at the Foster Center […]

The next in a series of one-hour information-gathering sessions President Ferguson has organized over the next few weeks to solicit input for UMaine’s strategic plan will take place will take place from 10-11 a.m. today, Jan. 30, in the McIntire Room of Buchanan Alumni House. The subject area is Academic Programs. For a complete list […]

The University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, in conjunction with the Maine Community Action Association, today released a county-by-county report on poverty in Maine (PDF) revealing that, based on recently released figures from the U.S. Census, 12.9 percent of the state’s population was living in poverty in 2009-2010, up from 12.4 percent in […]

An Associated Press story about a report on poverty in Maine, prepared by UMaine’s Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy, which will be released Thursday, was noted on the website of Bangor TV station WABI. The report found that the 2010 poverty rate of 12.5 percent was up from 11.4 percent in 2009. Contact: […]

Former University of Maine President Hugh Edwin Young died Jan. 2 in Madison, Wisc. He was 94. Young, a UMaine alumnus, served as president from Oct. 1, 1965 – June 30, 1968. The Newfoundland native earned his undergraduate degree in education in 1940 and a master’s in economics in 1942 from UMaine, and a doctorate […]

A new University of Maine Center on Aging statewide survey of more than 230 older adults shows that legal needs of aging Maine residents continue to increase at a time when free or low-cost legal aid is scarce.

The University of Maine Foundation has hired a national firm, AGB Search of Washington, D.C., to manage the recruitment and selection process for the replacement of president and CEO Amos E. Orcutt, who is retiring in 2012.

The University of Maine Wabanaki Center, part of the Division of Lifelong Learning, has announced the dates for three lectures, part of its Wabanaki Scholars Series titled “Bringing Wabanaki perspectives to the forefront of education.”

Len Kaye, director of the University of Maine Center on Aging, was featured in a Channel 5 (WABI) interview with Joy Hollowell on the often underappreciated role of male caregivers who spend time will ill family members. Comments from Kaye included in a UMaine news advisory about how holiday celebrations can negatively affect elders and […]

A lecture and reception scheduled by UMaine’s School of Policy and International Affairs for Monday, Dec. 5 at the Buchanan Alumni House with H.E. Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States in Washington, D.C., has been postponed indefinitely. Contact: Peter Fandel, (207) 581-1835