The Harold Alfond Foundation announced April 9 an award of $5 million to the University of Maine System to establish a Maine leadership endowment fund to support the System’s efforts to recruit and retain top executive leadership for the University of Maine. Distributions from the endowment will help the System fund a nationally competitive compensation […]
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The University of Maine’s 2018 valedictorian is Graham Van Goffrier of Norwell, Massachusetts and the salutatorian is Brianna DeGone of Turner, Maine. They will be honored at UMaine’s 216th Commencement in Harold Alfond Sports Arena May 12. Van Goffrier will receive a bachelor’s degree in physics, with minors in electrical engineering, mathematics and nanotechnology, and […]
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The new Engineering Education and Design Center (EEDC) will be sited on the current location of the Machine Tool Lab on campus. The site selection was approved by UMaine President Susan J. Hunter, based on the recommendation of an 11-member university building committee, working with the (EEDC) design team of WBRC Architects Engineers, based in […]
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A fisheries scientist whose research informs commercial and recreational resource management, a popular mechanical engineering professor whose classroom contributions include development of new curricula and educational software, and a soil scientist whose leadership and expertise benefit policymakers and the public are the recipients of the University of Maine’s top faculty honors this year. Yong Chen, […]
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Investigative journalism in a “post-truth” age will be the focus of a lecture by the editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team on April 20 at the University of Maine. Patricia Wen, who leads the nation’s oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative unit, will speak on “Getting It Right: Investigative Journalism in a ‘Post-Truth’ Age” as […]
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Frank Drummond, an internationally recognized entomologist whose decades of research on insect pests, bees and reproductive biology of the blueberry plant have contributed to the growth of Maine wild blueberry production, has been named the 2018 University of Maine Distinguished Maine Professor by the UMaine Alumni Association. The Distinguished Maine Professor Award, sponsored by UMaine’s […]
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Maine singer-songwriter David Mallett will be the second featured guest of the Framing Maine conversation series at the University of Maine on April 7. “Framing Maine Two: An Evening of Song and Story with David Mallett,” will take place at 7 p.m. in Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall. Mallett is a Maine native […]
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An expert on connecting cutting-edge environmental science with public policy will speak at the University of Maine’s second annual Libby Lecture in Natural Resource Policy on Tuesday, April 10. Noelle Eckley Selin, an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Institute for Data, Systems and Society and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary […]
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From sessions on religious and ethical respect for water resources, rivers and fish passage, to building resilience to sea level rise and citizen science, the 2018 Maine Sustainability & Water Conference March 29 at the Augusta Civic Center will feature an expanded agenda on urgent topics affecting Maine, New England, the country and globe. The […]
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Twenty-one University of Maine faculty have received tenure and/or promotion. The faculty members were nominated by UMaine President Susan J. Hunter based on a peer and administrative review of their successful teaching, research and public service, and approved by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. “UMaine’s world-class faculty are at the heart of […]
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