Ellen Mallory, University of Maine Cooperative Extension specialist and associate professor of sustainable agriculture, was awarded $11,902 grant for food research from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The project is supported by the USDA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) and is titled, “Investigating Diversity as a Climate Resilience Strategy for Potato and […]
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Ian Mette, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Maine, had the most downloaded article of 2015 in the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. The paper, “Turnaround, Transformational, or Transactional Leadership: An Ethical Dilemma in School Reform,” appeared in the December 2014 issue of JCEL. It was downloaded more than 1,500 […]
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The second University of Maine forum to update the UMaine community about the preliminary FY17 education and general (E&G) budget was held Jan. 20 in Neville Hall. The forum is part of ongoing campus engagement to receive input and answer questions about the early stages of UMaine’s budget development process. Among the updates presented in the second […]
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Throughout January, Fogler Library is showcasing books published by University of Maine faculty in 2015. Authors come from fields as diverse as communication sciences and disorders, physics and astronomy, English, anthropology, political science, psychology, communication and journalism, mechanical engineering, civil and environmental engineering, and mathematics and statistics. The exhibit is in the first floor hallway […]
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Summer 2016 courses are available for viewing on MaineStreet. Registration will begin Feb. 1 for students looking to fit in another course, graduate early, or boost their GPA. UMaine Summer University is an opportunity for students to further their academic goals on campus or online. Think 30 credits per year — Summer University will help […]
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Robert Glover, an assistant professor of political science and Honors at the University of Maine, has been named an Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation (ENACT) Faculty Fellow by International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University. The new program aims to create a nationwide network of university professors and researchers who […]
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UMaine’s rollout of the Maine Matters program and the Flagship Match financial aid packages reaffirms UMaine’s commitment to making higher education affordable for Maine students, and bringing the best and the brightest into the state — future leaders, community members and workforce. Maine Matters is aimed at reducing the cost of higher education for middle- […]
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University of Maine President Susan J. Hunter is scheduled to appear on “Bill Green’s Maine” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12 on WLBZ (Channel 2 in Bangor) and WCSH (Channel 6 in Portland).
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History graduate student Edward Andrew Kobylarz digitized and transcribed a wide selection of documents from the Paul W. Bean Collection as a part of a summer internship in Fogler Library’s Special Collections Department. Color scans and searchable text allow researchers a new way to access letters, pamphlets and other documents that provide a glimpse of […]
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The Political Science Department, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and University Training Center for Reading Recovery and Maine Partnerships in Comprehensive Literacy are among the latest programs to upgrade to the university’s new website template. The new umaine.edu and related pages debuted in late August. For more information on the UMaine website conversion, contact Mike […]
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