Campus Announcements

Ladenheim Receives Award for Promoting Service-Learning

University of Maine faculty member, Honors College preceptor and folklorist Melissa Ladenheim has received Maine Campus Compact’s Donald Harward Faculty Award for Service-Learning Excellence. The award recognizes the accomplishments of faculty members in making public service an integral part of their teaching, forging strong and reciprocal community partnerships, and advocating for service learning. The award […]

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UMaine Extension Raspberry Video Wins National Award

David Handley, University of Maine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist at Highmoor Farm in Monmouth, has been judged a winner in the National Association of County Agricultural Agents Communications Awards Program for a video on raspberry pruning. He will be recognized in mid-July at the Communications Awards Luncheon in Charleston, S.C. In addition, […]

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UMaine Hosting Sculpture Symposium Workshop for Teachers

The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS) will host a workshop for Maine teachers on Saturday, April 28 at UMaine. This biennial cultural event will bring eight internationally recognized sculptors to the University of Maine campus this summer to create stone artwork for permanent display at area locations.

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Promotion and/or Tenure for 29 UMaine Professors

The University of Maine System Board of Trustees has approved promotion and/or tenure for 29 University of Maine faculty members. The professors, who represent the broad spectrum of UMaine academic programs, were nominated by University of Maine President Paul Ferguson after an extensive process reviewing their work in teaching, research and community service.

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Fall 2011 Deans List

Recently the University of Maine recognized 1,947 students for achieving Deans List honors in the Fall 2011 semester. Of the students who made the Deans List, 1,689 are from Maine, 203 are from out of state, and 55 are from foreign countries. Please note that some students have requested that their information not be released; […]

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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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