Student Life

UMaine Dining brings back Luke’s Lobster to hungry Black Bear football fans

Continuing its dedication to providing local food to its visitors, University of Maine Dining announces that Portland-based Luke’s Lobster will once again be available at the Homecoming Black Bear football game in the concessions area. Luke’s Lobster will offer its Maine-style 4-ounce and 6-ounce lobster rolls, 8-ounce bowls of New England-style clam chowder along with […]

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MBS Corps to host March Against Domestic Violence on Oct. 13

The Maine Business School (MBS) Corps at the University of Maine will host its tenth annual March Against Domestic Violence at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13 beginning outside of Cumberland Hall. The march will occur along Long Road and the Mall and conclude at Fogler Library. Speakers at the event will include Amanda Cost, executive […]

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UMaine’s Wilde-Stein Club celebrates 50 years at Orono

The University of Maine will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the LGBTQ+ student club, Wilde-Stein, with online and on campus events in October.  Wilde-Stein was an early LGBTQ+ student club founded in September 1973. It was one of many student groups that appeared on college campuses across the United States during the gay liberation movement. […]

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UMaine hosting upcoming college softball, baseball championships 

The University of Maine will host the 2024 America East Softball Championship and the 2025 America East Baseball Championship. That last softball championship hosted at UMaine was in 2010. The 2024 competition follows the opening of the university’s new softball complex. UMaine previously hosted baseball championships in 2022 and 2018.  Read the full story on […]

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UMaine students help make Fields Pond Audubon Center more accessible

Students from the University of Maine Construction Engineering Technology program replaced an aging footbridge at the Fields Pond Audubon Center with a new, more accessible pathway made of stone, gravel and crusher dust. The path makes it easier for people with physical disabilities, particularly those related to mobility, to travel from the nature center to […]

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Media feature ‘Finish Strong’ adult degree completion program

The Portland Press Herald, Maine Public, the Bangor Daily News, Spectrum News, WFVX (Channel 7) and The Bethel Citizen featured the new “Finish Strong” adult degree completion program launching in spring 2024. The program is a collaboration between the University of Maine, the University of Maine at Machias and the University of Maine at Fort […]

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Intermedia students projecting animated art on walls of Fort Knox

Graduate students from University of Maine Intermedia Programs will project digital animations on the walls inside Fort Knox from 10:30 a.m.–noon Saturday, Sept. 30.  The artwork in the exhibition, titled “A Work of Light and Shadows,” was created using specialized software and projectors to create a digital skin that can be applied to irregular surfaces […]

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Learn to take stunning photos of research with any camera on Oct. 3

The University of Maine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture will host its inaugural science communication workshop, Visual Storytelling Essentials at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 3 at the Bumps Room in the Memorial Union.  This workshop will teach participants to take photos and videos that they can use to show the beauty of […]

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McGillicuddy Humanities Center welcomes fall 2023 undergraduate fellows

This semester, the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center (MHC) welcomes four new undergraduate research fellows: Chapman “Chappy” Hall, Iris Loehr, Sarah Renee Ozlanski and Katherine Ritche. This new cohort will join current fellows Paige Allen, Sebastien Chamberlain, Abigail Roberts and Willow Wind.  MHC undergraduate fellows receive an award of up to $8,000 over the […]

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