The University of Maine is ranked No. 43 in the Student Voting category of the 2018 Washington Monthly College Rankings out this week. For the first time in its college rankings, Washington Monthly used four measures of a college’s commitment to encouraging voting by its students, all focused on the institution’s active participation in Tufts […]
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Members of the University of Maine community are invited to join Facilities at a retirement open house for Donna Guerrette to celebrate her 37 years of service to the University of Maine System. The event will be held in Service Building A, Facilities Conference Room 109 from 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Aug. 23. Light refreshments will […]
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The University of Maine’s First Year Experience is recruiting volunteers to welcome UMaine’s Class of 2022 during Maine Hello on Friday, Aug. 31. Maine Hello is a campuswide event where returning students, faculty and staff welcome new students and their families as they arrive on campus. From 8 a.m.–4 p.m., volunteers will assist with greeting […]
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A smoke test of the sanitary sewer system in select areas of the campus will be conducted Tuesday–Wednesday, Aug. 21–22. This smoke test is a common process that will allow Facilities Management (FM) to locate breaks and defects by blowing smoke through portions of the sewer system. The odorless white to gray smoke is safe […]
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The Division of Lifelong Learning expects to welcome nearly 200 of Maine’s brightest high school students at Academ-e Orientation 2018 on Aug. 28 at Wells Conference Center. Academ-e is the University of Maine’s Early College program. Through a partnership between the Maine Department of Education and the University of Maine System, tuition is waived for […]
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The National Marine Fisheries Service and Sea Grant have awarded one of seven fellowships to University of Maine doctoral student Mackenzie Mazur. The fellowship will support Mazur’s research, conducted under advisers Yong Chen and Teresa Johnson, to develop a management strategy evaluation framework for the Maine lobster fishery in a changing Gulf of Maine. […]
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The University of Maine is on Money magazine’s list of 727 Best Colleges for Your Money in America. The listing is the latest of national rankings for UMaine, including Princeton Review and Fiske Guide this summer.
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The University of Maine Digital Communications Office offers weekly UMaine WordPress training at 10 a.m. Aug. 23 and 30, Sept. 6, 13, 20, and 27. The 90-minute sessions cover the basics of WordPress, including how to log in, create pages and edit header, footer and sidebar elements. Members of the university community are invited to […]
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Olivia Bogucki, a fifth-year University of Maine clinical psychology doctoral candidate, was awarded a scholarship through the 8th Annual Beck Institute Student Scholarship Competition. She was selected from a pool of more than 300 applicants to attend an intensive three-day workshop on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for depression and suicidality at the prestigious Beck Institute […]
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Amr Ismail, former University of Maine Cooperative Extension blueberry specialist, passed away Aug. 8. Ismail received his Ph.D. in plant science from UMaine, and remained there as a professor until 1984 before becoming executive vice president of the Maine Wild Blueberry Company in Machias and continuing to make advances in his career, according to his […]
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