Eligible faculty and UMPSA unit members who have 10 years of full-time equivalent years of service and are at least 62 years old are eligible for a Special Retirement Incentive and/or Health Premium Incentive. (Log in using your MaineStreet ID.) More information is available by emailing retirement@maine.edu.
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Movie fans are invited to be part of a worldwide judging contingent for the 17th annual Manhattan Short Film Festival at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2, at the Collins Center for the Arts at the University of Maine. More than 100,000 moviegoers in more than 250 cinemas on six continents are expected to judge the […]
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The Maine Public Broadcasting Network will air a talk given by Robert Ford, former U.S. Ambassador to Syria at 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25 as part of its “Speaking in Maine” public affairs lecture series. Ford spoke at the University of Maine earlier this week, hours before airstrikes were initiated in Syria against ISIS. During […]
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Neil Comins, a University of Maine professor of physics and astronomy, and Marcella Sorg, a medical and forensic anthropologist at UMaine, will be part of a panel discussion about how science is represented on film Sept. 15 at the Penobscot Theatre in Bangor. “Good, Bad and Ugly: Science in Film,” begins at 7 p.m. and […]
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Judy Walker, an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Maine, received a three-year $174,000 grant from Next Generation Foundation of Maine to support the expansion of an innovative graduate-level training program in speech therapy telepractice. The UMaine Speech Therapy Telepractice program, which started in 2011, uses a […]
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The University of Maine will conduct its annual emergency communications system test Thursday, Sept. 18, beginning at noon. Three outdoor sirens will sound for several minutes shortly after noon. They are audible throughout campus and, under certain conditions, in surrounding communities. The sirens are part of UMaine’s multifaceted emergency communications system established in 2007 that […]
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The Black Bear Orono Express no longer has a route through Talmar Wood. The closest stop to Talmar Wood is on Rangeley Road. In addition, during construction on the Memorial Gym circle Sept. 8–Oct. 20, the UMaine stop for Concord Coach Lines will be at the Alfond Arena entrance facing Alfond Stadium.
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University of Maine executive vice president for academic affairs and provost Jeffrey Hecker has announced new appointments in the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate School that have resulted from a reorganization of research and graduate studies at the University of Maine. Effective, July 1, 2014, vice president for research Carol Kim […]
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Ryan Low, executive director of governmental and external affairs for the University of Maine System, has been appointed interim vice president for administration and finance at the University of Maine, effective Sept. 2, 2014. Low will serve a one-year term, ending Aug. 31, 2015. This spring, a search will be conducted to fill the position […]
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University of Maine President Susan Hunter and Judy Ryan, UMaine vice president for administration and finance, announced today that Ryan will retire Sept. 12. Ryan joined the University of Maine in 2012 as associate vice president for human resources and administration. In April 2014, she replaced Janet Waldron, senior vice president for administration and finance, […]
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