Campus Announcements

Boss Selected to IOCCG Committee

Oceanographer Emmanuel Boss became a member of the International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group Committee at its 20th annual meeting March 3–5 in France. Boss is a professor in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences. Other members hail from South Korea, South Africa, Ghana, Italy, India, Germany, Japan, France, Australia, People’s Republic of China, Canada, […]

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2015 Francis Crowe Society Induction Ceremonies May 9

University of Maine graduates and distinguished engineers will be inducted into the Francis Crowe Society during two ceremonies on Saturday, May 9. The College of Engineering will host a ceremony from 9 to 11:30 a.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts. The School of Engineering Technology will host a ceremony from 10 to 11 […]

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New Scholarship Honors Retiring Director of Student Financial Aid

Friends and colleagues of Gianna Marrs, retiring director of the University of Maine’s Office of Student Financial Aid, have created a scholarship in her name. The scholarship was created to celebrate Marrs’ retirement after 29 years of service to UMaine. Jeffery Mills, president and CEO of the University of Maine Foundation, announced the scholarship at […]

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Service Projects, Barbecue, Oozeball Set for Maine Day, April 29

University of Maine students, faculty and staff will take part in Maine Day, the annual campuswide spring cleanup tradition, on Wednesday, April 29. UMaine community members will complete service projects aimed at sprucing up the campus, enjoy a free barbecue, and compete for the oozeball — mud volleyball — championship. About 40 projects will include […]

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2015 Rezendes Ethics Essay Winners Announced

John William Mukose, a third-year chemical engineering major and Honors College student, is the winner of the 2015 John M. Rezendes Annual Ethics Essay Competition. Mukose of Kampala, Uganda received $2,800 and a commemorative sculpture for his essay, “The Ethics of Using Indoor Residual Spraying of DDT to Control Malaria in Uganda.” Afton Hupper, a […]

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College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture Presents Student, Faculty Awards

The College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture has presented its 2015 top student and faculty awards: Undergraduate Awards: Stephanie Wood, Wallace C. and Janet S. Dunham Prize; Riju Shrestha, Outstanding International Student; and Gwendolyn Beacham, Frank B. and Charles S. Bickford Memorial Prize. Graduate Awards: Kaitlyn O’Donnell, Norris Charles Clements Graduate Student Award; Noah […]

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Softball Squad Hosts Friends of Jaclyn Day

The University of Maine softball team will host a Friends of Jaclyn Day at its noon game Saturday, April 25, with the University of Hartford, at Kessock Field. The FOJ Foundation, based in Cortlandt Manor, New York, works to improve the quality of life for children battling pediatric brain tumors and other childhood cancers, as […]

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Two-Day Event to Focus on Saving Endangered Native Languages

“Saving Endangered Native Languages” is the theme of the spring 2015 University of Maine Humanities Symposium April 24–25. Language activists and tribal representatives from native communities in the northeastern United States and Canada along with university partners will discuss the challenges and opportunities for language revitalization during the two-day event on campus. Jessie Little Doe […]

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Professor Emeritus Alan Langille Passes Away

Alan Langille, who joined the University of Maine’s Plant and Soil Sciences Department as an assistant professor in 1967, passed away April 19, 2015. Langille spent 39 years at UMaine, retiring in 2006. During the last decade of his career, he taught and developed a field research program in turfgrass science, establishing UMaine as an […]

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