Kevin Coughlin, vice president for enrollment management and services at Florida International University with a more than 20-year career in student recruitment and retention, has been named vice president for enrollment management at the University of Maine, effective June 16. “We look forward to the national leadership and vision Kevin will bring to student recruitment […]
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Diane Dunn, senior advisor for special initiatives in the University of Maine Office of the President, has been named chief of staff to President Joan Ferrini-Mundy, effective March 23, 2023. The UMaine alumna with 33 years of military service has been a senior advisor reporting to the president since January 2022. In her role as […]
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Jason Harkins, a University of Maine associate professor of management, has been named executive dean of the Maine Business School (MBS), effective April 1, 2023. Harkins had been serving as interim MBS executive dean since July, and as associate dean since 2020. “At the conclusion of a national search, we are pleased that Jason will […]
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The annual Penobscot River Educational Partnership (PREP) virtual conference this year is dedicated to the late Betsy Webb, longtime Bangor School Department superintendent and Libra Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development. Webb was executive director of PREP from 2020 until she passed away last November. UMaine is a higher […]
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The University of Maine will conduct its annual emergency communications system test at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 22, complete with the outdoor sirens sounding for several minutes. The sirens are part of UMaine’s multifaceted emergency communications system established in 2007 that allows university safety and communications professionals to use several mechanisms to quickly communicate […]
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The University of Maine and area law enforcement teams will participate in training exercises from 8 a.m.–4 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, in the University Credit Union facility on Rangeley Road. For more information, contact UMaine PD, 207.581.4040.
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UMaine’s Events & Hospitality Office was named the 2022 Planner’s Choice winner for Expos and Trade Shows in the United States by Unique Venues. Unique Venues is an industry leader in working with unique planners like universities, arboretums, museums and other unique spaces. Runners-up in this category were MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey […]
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Deborah Bouchard and Meggan Dwyer from the University of Maine Aquaculture Research Institute (ARI) chaired a session about Maine’s aquaculture sector at Aquaculture America, the largest national aquaculture conference, Feb. 23–26 in New Orleans. Speakers from the University of Maine, Educate Maine, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Long Cove Sea Farms, Colby College, and […]
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Two memorial events will be held this spring to honor the life and scholarship of Professor Ngo Vinh Long, who died this past October after a brief illness. On March 17, 3–5 p.m., friends and colleagues of Ngo Vinh Long will have a celebration of his life, work and legacy during the Asian Studies Association […]
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A memorial service for F. Philip Dufour, a former University of Maine administrator who passed away on Feb. 20, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 1 at Our Lady of Good Hope Catholic Church, 7 Union St., Camden. Dufor held many positions with the university from the late 1960s to 1991, including director […]
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