Campus Announcements

Next Blue Sky Listening Session Friday on Student Life

The next in a series of one-hour information-gathering sessions President Ferguson has organized to solicit input for UMaine’s strategic plan will take place Friday, Feb. 24, from 12-1 p.m. in the Buchanan Alumni House. The subject is Student Life. For a complete list of topics, dates and locations, visit this website.  Everyone in the university […]

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UMaine Administrator Takes Position in Connecticut

Executive Director of Facilities, Real Estate and Planning Elaine Clark will be leaving the University of Maine to become the vice president for real estate and infrastructure planning at the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities Board of Regents for Higher Education beginning March 1.

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Ryan Named UMaine Associate Vice President

Judith Ryan of Raymond, Maine, vice president for human resources and senior advisor to the president at the University of Southern Maine, has been named associate vice president for human resources and administration at the University of Maine.

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University of Maine to Host Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium

ORONO, Maine – The University of Maine will host this summer’s Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS), a biennial cultural event that will bring eight internationally recognized sculptors to the UMaine campus to create stone artwork for permanent display at eight locations in Orono, Old Town and Bangor.

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Campus Activities Scheduled for President’s Inauguration

The inauguration of University of Maine President Paul Ferguson will be Thursday, April 19 and a number of events on and off campus are planned as part of a Leadership Week, April 11-20. A website provides the latest information about the inauguration and related events. Beginning this week, Save the Week and other correspondence will […]

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UMaine Blue Sky Plan Listening Sessions Continue Friday

To solicit input for UMaine’s strategic plan, a series of one-hour information-gathering sessions will take place over the next several weeks.  The Friday, January 27 session on university sustainability will be held at noon in 102 York Complex. The subject area is Interdisciplinary Research Initiative. For a complete list of topics, dates and locations, visit […]

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Franklin Lewis Roberts, 1934-2012

Franklin Lewis Roberts, who for 33 years taught genetics, biology and evolution at the University of Maine, died on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. Roberts graduated from UMaine with honors in 1955.

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Harold Westerman Passes Away

Harold Westerman, former University of Maine football coach and athletic director, has passed away at the age of 94. Westerman spent 33 years at UMaine as an assistant football coach (1949-50), head coach (1951-66) and athletic director (1967-82). Under Westerman, the Black Bears won several conference championships and advanced to the Tangerine Bowl in 1965. […]

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Sydney Carroll Thomas 1954-2011

Former University of Maine College of Education and Human Development faculty member Sydney Carroll Thomas has died at the age of 57. Thomas, who left UMaine in 2008, was an associate professor of counselor education and also taught in the Honors College. According to an obituary in the Bangor Daily News, Thomas joined the UMaine […]

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