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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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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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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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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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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The three finalists for the University of Maine System chancellor position will begin to make campus visits on Jan. 17, with the three finalists visiting UMaine Jan. 18-20.
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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, 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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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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J. Norman Wilkinson, who taught performing arts at the University of Maine for 35 years, has died at the age of 81. Born in Liverpool, England, according to an obituary in the Bangor Daily News, Wilkinson also was an actor, playwright and Maine Masque theater director. His survivors include his wife of 54 years, Dorothy, […]
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