The Maine State Archives Bicentennial Moments project posted a 30-second video about the origins of Maine’s land grant university. The video includes historical and current photographs and the following script: “The United States Land Grant College Act of 1862 resulted in Maine having 210,00 acres to sell and to use the money to finance the […]
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Two University of Maine online graduate programs have been ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. The MaineMBA ranked No. 47 in online master of business administration programs and the online graduate program in education tied for No. 60. The MaineMBA ranking is up from No. 90 in 2019 […]
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2019 was a year to remember at the University of Maine. Here’s a look back at a year of adventure and achievements in research, athletics, the arts and more.
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Joan Ferrini-Mundy, president of the University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias, will speak on the Maine Public radio show “Maine Calling” on Jan. 7. The show, airing at 1 p.m., will focus on the recently released 10-year Strategic Economic Development Plan for the state of Maine. Discussion will cover the plan’s major […]
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Josette McWilliams has been named executive assistant to University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy, effective Jan. 6. McWilliams, a UMaine alumna who was a first-generation college student, comes to the university from Colby College, where she served as executive assistant to the dean of the college for two years. “I’m pleased and humbled to return […]
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Natascia La Verde of Belfast, Maine has received a 2020 University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) New England Region Outstanding Student Award. The award honors an undergraduate enrolled in a program offered through a division of professional, continuing or online education who has demonstrated outstanding achievement and an unusual will to learn — not […]
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The University of Maine’s Graduate School Commencement Ceremony will be held on May 8 at 4 p.m. in Harold Alfond Sports Arena. New to the ceremony this year: All candidates for advanced degrees, including doctoral candidates, will receive their hoods and have their degrees conferred during the Friday afternoon ceremony. All graduate students interested in […]
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The Emera Astronomy Center at the University of Maine is offering free guided meditation sessions in the M.F. Jordan Planetarium to help students and faculty de-stress during finals week. Participants can experience an amazing sunset as they travel from the Grand Canyon to the North Pole, then relax under a night sky filled with stars […]
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Aydrea Walden will bring her one-woman show, “The Oreo Experience: A Total Whitey Trapped in a Black Chick’s Body,” to the University of Maine on Dec. 9. The 8 p.m. show in Minsky Recital Hall is free and open to the public, and is based on a blog of the same name, which has been […]
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Leadership, civility and peace as reflected in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?” is the focus of the 2020 Dorothy Clarke Wilson Peace Writing Prize, sponsored by the Wilson Center. Submission deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13. The winner will read the selected essay at UMaine’s annual […]
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