Student Life

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UMaine men’s rugby team wins first-ever national championship

The University of Maine men’s rugby club team won the 2024 National Collegiate Rugby DII Championship held at Maryland Sportsplex on Saturday, April 27. Over a span of two days, the Black Bears defeated four other teams in a bracket that included a total of 16 teams. It was the third consecutive year the UMaine […]

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UMaine recognizes top student research and creative projects at 2024 symposium

More than 1,000 student researchers, co-authors, faculty, staff, event sponsors and community members celebrated student achievement at the 2024 University of Maine Student Symposium for Research and Creative Activity on April 12. Among the 350 projects featured, 35 earned awards.  The ninth annual symposium connected the public with UMaine student researchers and scholars who presented […]

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Mainebiz highlights UMaine’s history, innovative advancements

Mainebiz highlighted the University of Maine in an article about how colleges and universities in Maine have a long history of advancing and innovating their campuses despite economic downturns. During the 2008 recession, UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center partnered with a private company to use composite technology in bridge construction. The university’s Aroostook Farm […]

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PenBay Pilot coverage of STEM fest includes UMaine students, faculty member

Coverage from the Penobscot Bay Pilot of the 2024 Owls Head Transportation Museum STEM fest, held April 26-27, featured the work of three University of Maine undergraduate engineering students and instructional laboratory and lecture demonstration specialist David Sturm from the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The four worked together to use an electrostatic generator to […]

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Senior capstone projects featured by WABI

WABI (CBS 5 in Bangor) featured a brief segment on senior capstone projects from computer science and new media students at the University of Maine on Friday, April 26. Students presented and displayed their year-long projects on the last day of classes at the Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center. This year’s projects for computing […]

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Bangor-area media highlight Maine Day Meal Packout

WABI (CBS 5 in Bangor) and WFVX (Fox 22 in Bangor) highlighted the Maine Meal Packout event, held on Tuesday at the University of Maine Memorial Gym. Organized by the Honors College, hundreds of students and others volunteered to pack more than 56,800 meals that will be donated to food banks and pantries around the […]

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UMaine student’s Rubik’s Cube prowess featured by WABI

University of Maine student Aedan Bryant showed off his Rubik’s Cube solving skills on two segments from WABI (CBS 5 in Bangor) ahead of a Rubik’s Cube tournament in Skowhegan. He participated in one segment filmed on campus, and participated in a Q&A hosted at the studio. Bryant participates in competitions around the U.S., ranks […]

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Students pack and donate 56,800 meals during Maine Day Meal Packout

Around 300 students and other volunteers at the University of Maine assembled 56,800 meals for people in need during Maine Day Meal Packout on Tuesday, April 23 in the Memorial Gym.  Maine Day Meal Packout is organized by Honors College staff and the Honors College Student Activities Board. Honors College students have been packing meals […]

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College of Education and Human Development recognizes academic excellence

More than 225 people attended the University of Maine College of Education and Human Development’s annual Student Recognition Ceremony on Friday, April 19 at Wells Conference Center. During the event, the college celebrated undergraduate students who are graduating this spring with academic excellence honors (cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher). Seniors who have been active […]

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Celebrate sustainability with Earth Week 2024 at UMaine

The University of Maine will celebrate Earth Week 2024 through April 27 with a slate of events on- and off-campus organized by various groups and organizations.  Earth Week events include a nature walk and talk, a campus clean up, a garbage art gallery, musical performances, academic discussions pertaining to environmental issues and a pop-up thrift […]

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