Campus Announcements

Gendron signs two-year contract extension

University of Maine men’s ice hockey head coach Dennis “Red” Gendron has signed a second two-year contract extension, UMaine Interim Athletics Director Jim Settele announced today. The terms of the extension, which runs through June 30, 2021, remain unchanged from the current contract. Gendron has been UMaine head coach since May 2013, leading the Black […]

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Park Street entrance will be closed May 13–Aug. 30

A section of Rangeley Road will be closed May 13 through Aug. 30 during the installation of a roundabout at the intersection of Rangeley and Park Street by the Maine Department of Transportation. During this time, Munson and Long roads will be the best routes to use to reach the UMaine Police Department, Facilities Management and […]

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Cornell University professor to speak as part of ‘Life of Ideas’ series

Enzo Traverso, the Susan and Barton Winokur Professor in the Humanities at Cornell University, will speak March 29 at the University of Maine. Traverso’s talk, “Burdens of the Past: The Age of Left-Wing Melancholia,” will begin at 4 p.m. in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space at the IMRC Center in Stewart Commons. Refreshments […]

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UMaine to celebrate Diversity Week with several events

The University of Maine will celebrate Diversity Week with a series of events March 26–30. Highlights of Diversity Week include a public talk by politician Emily Cain on women who will run in 2018, panel discussions on feminism and the new immigrant experience, a lunch-and-learn on the misrepresentation of multicultural characters in film, diversity and […]

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2018 UMaine Business Challenge finalists announced

The UMaine Business Challenge presented by Business Lending Solutions, Maine’s largest college business plan competition, has announced this year’s finalists. The seven-year-old competition is open to student entrepreneurs from Maine colleges or universities with businesses headquartered, or soon to be headquartered, in the state. Vying for more than $20,000 in cash and prizes, the students […]

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Student group leading Sustain Maine license plate campaign

Maine Community Energy Advocates, a student-led organization, seeks to increase support for community-based sustainable energy and energy efficiency programs in the state by establishing a new specialty license plate. The project has been approved by the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and 2,000 pre-orders are needed to prove sufficient interest for the plates to go […]

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Find an environmentally friendly career at the Green Jobs Forum

Are you interested in installing solar swimming pool heaters? How about working in a yarn shop that supports sustainable fiber farming? People considering a career, internship or volunteer opportunities in the environmental sector are invited to the Green Jobs Forum from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 14 at the Bangor Public Library. Several businesses […]

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College of Education and Human Development ranked among top grad schools

The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development offers one of the top graduate programs for education in the country, according to the latest rankings by U.S. News & World Report. UMaine is ranked 75th on the annual list, released March 20. That’s up 26 spots from last year. In addition, the College […]

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Jerome Herrick named 2018 Outstanding Classified Employee

Jerome Herrick, a facilities maintenance worker CL1, has been named the 2018 Outstanding Classified Employee by the University of Maine Classified Employees Advisory Council (CEAC). The award recognizes classified employees’ exceptional service and dedication to UMaine, increasing the campus community’s awareness of the indispensable contributions that represented and nonrepresented classified employees make to the quality, […]

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