This week, the University of Maine Alumni Association will host over 200 alumni and friends on campus at Senior Alumni Reunion events. Senior alums are those celebrating 50 years or more since graduation. The three-day event features an All-Alumni Dinner on Thursday evening at the Black Bear Inn, followed by the annual Senior Alumni Luncheon […]
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Daisy Domínguez Singh, formerly interim associate dean and chief librarian at the City College of New York Libraries, has been named dean of libraries at the University of Maine, effective Oct. 11. Domínguez Singh fills the position left by dean Joyce Rumery, who retired earlier this year after 36 years at UMaine. “Daisy’s experience in […]
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The University of Maine Institute of Medicine will host its First Annual Distinguished Science Lecture at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 6 at the Buchanan Alumni House. UMaine alumnus D. Allan Butterfield, associate vice president for research for centers and institutes and for research priority areas at the University of Kentucky, will deliver the lecture and discuss […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteers program will host its annual field day 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Sept. 10 at Rogers Farm demonstration garden, 914 Bennoch Road, Old Town. All activities will be held outdoors. Workshops and demonstrations for the “Let’s Eat!” field day include “Farm Flatbreads” with Rob Dumas, University of Maine […]
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Stephen Bocking, professor emeritus from the Trent School of Environment at Trent University, will deliver the 2022 Geddes W. Simpson Lecture, titled “How the Arctic Became Global,” at 1 p.m. Oct. 13 in the McIntire Room at the University of Maine Buchanan Alumni House. Bocking taught at the Trent School of the Environment from 1994–2022, […]
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Four University of Maine students recently completed the General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) summer internship program. Katie Arsenault, Parker Swanson, Max Moore and George Bradbury worked across the yard in various departments. Arsenault is a senior majoring in management with concentrations in business information systems and international business. She interned with BIW’s Human Resources […]
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The University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) will welcome industry leaders from around the world for the American Floating Offshore Wind Technical Summit (AFloat) in the wake of President Joe Biden’s attention on floating wind in the Gulf of Maine. The ASCC will host the 2022 AFloat Conference from Sept. 12–13 at […]
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The University of Maine Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center, Alumni Association and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will host a free public discussion about “The Future of Humanities” on Oct. 14 at 3 p.m. at the Collins Center for the Arts. The event, which will take place during Homecoming 2022, will celebrate the […]
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Intermedia Programs has launched its annual faculty exhibition “ARTworkers,” which will be on display through Sept. 16 at the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center (IMRC). The exhibit features a mobile research lab by Susan Smith, director of Intermedia Programs, and advised by Ali Abedi, professor of electrical and computer engineering and cooperating professor of […]
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The University of Maine is one of five international sites of the 2022 Raising Indigenous Voices in Academia & Society (RIVAS) conference, acknowledging the contributions of Indigenous Peoples globally, Oct. 20–25. RIVAS supports the scholarship of Indigenous academics and speakers whose cultures help shape linguistics, archeology, cultural anthropology and other academic disciplines, and also acknowledges […]
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