The Associated Press, Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News, WLBZ (Channel 2), Mainebiz, WVII (Channel 7) and 92.9 FM The Ticket reported the University of Maine has received a $1.5 million, three-year award from the Harold Alfond Foundation to support UMaine Athletics. The Alfond Foundation will give $750,000 in unrestricted funds to UMaine Athletics to […]
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Editor’s note: Story updated Oct. 31. The University of Maine has received a $1.5 million, three-year award from the Harold Alfond Foundation to support UMaine Athletics. The award establishes the Alfond Fund in the University of Maine Foundation, focused on creating a centralized fundraising structure for UMaine Athletics and continuing support of the football program. “Through the years, Harold Alfond and […]
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A private memorial service for University of Maine Professor Gordon S. Hamilton will be held Nov. 3, 3–5 p.m., at Buchanan Alumni House. At the request of the family, the service is by invitation only. A video tribute to Dr. Hamilton is expected to be released later in November. A memorial fund in Dr. Hamilton’s […]
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The University of Maine’s Homecoming 2016 will be celebrated with several events on campus Friday through Sunday, Oct. 14–16. A special highlight this year will be the dedication of the Professor Michael H. Lewis Painting Studio in the Wyeth Family Studio Art Center on campus. The dedication event begins at noon Saturday, Oct. 15 in […]
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University of Tennessee researcher David L. Greene will speak about the history of carbon emission regulations and creating a sustainable future during the 15th annual Geddes W. Simpson Lecture. Greene, a Senior Fellow of the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and a research professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering […]
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The Bangor Daily News published a University of Maine Foundation news release announcing entrepreneur David Sklar ’63 has joined the Charles F. Allen Legacy Society with a $1 million planned gift. UMaine Foundation President Jeffery N. Mills and UMaine President Susan J. Hunter recently presented Sklar with a certificate recognizing him as a new member […]
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University of Maine Foundation treasurer and former board chair Darryl Brown passed away June 18. He was 71. Brown received two degrees from UMaine, and the Darryl and Penny Brown Scholarship Fund is held at the University of Maine Foundation. A University of Maine Foundation announcement on his passing is online.
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The University of Maine Department of Political Science has announced the first awardees of the John M. Nickerson University of Maine Scholarship. The five selected students will each receive close to one year of in-state tuition for the 2016–17 academic year. Each of the students was awarded scholarship support after being chosen by the faculty […]
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The University of Maine Annual Fund office will be conducting the institution’s first Maine Day of Giving May 4, 2016. The 24-hour-long event will take place during the University’s annual Maine Day – traditionally a day of service for University students, faculty and staff, also on May 4. In this way, alumni and friends of […]
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The Bangor Daily News published the opinion piece, “What the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature will bring to UMaine,” by Laura Cowan, an associate professor and chair of the English department at the University of Maine; and Gregory Howard, assistant professor and graduate coordinator of the master’s program in English at UMaine. “The million […]
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