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UMaine's valedictorian and salutatorian medals

UMaine’s 2016 Valedictorian and Salutatorian

Nicholas Fried of Millerstown, Pennsylvania, is the 2016 University of Maine valedictorian and Connor Smart of Lincoln, Maine, is the salutatorian. The honors students will receive their degrees at UMaine’s 214th Commencement in Harold Alfond Sports Arena May 14. Fried majored in animal and veterinary sciences, with a minor in chemistry. This fall, he will […]

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Aaron Putnam on a glacier in Bhutan

Putnam blazes ice age career path

Aaron Putnam has been awarded one of most prestigious grants for an early-career scientist. Early career indeed. Putnam has been on the job at the University of Maine for about eight months as the George H. Denton Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences. In May, he’ll take the reins of a […]

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Play, programs focus on challenges Iranian women face

The University of Maine will host several public programs centered around a free performance of a play that offers historical and contemporary insight into the plight of women in Iran. “The Poets and the Assassin” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7 in Minsky Recital Hall on campus. The play portrays struggles Iranian […]

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Maine Sea Grant awards funds for three UMaine research projects

The Maine Sea Grant College Program has awarded funds to University of Maine faculty for three new research projects representing more than $500,000 in investment from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and matching sources. Hamish Greig, an assistant professor of stream ecology in the School of Biology and Ecology, plans to study the fate […]

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College of Education and Human Development announces 2015–16 faculty, staff awards

The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development has announced the 2015–16 faculty and staff awards. The awards are: Teaching Excellence Award — Susan Bennett-Armistead, a full-time associate professor of literacy; and Dick Young, a part-time lecturer Research and Creative Achievement Award — Sandra Caron, professor of family relations and human sexuality Faculty […]

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UMaine digital humanities research on the Holocaust receives NEH grant

A University of Maine-led digital humanities research project to study and, ultimately, “map” how Holocaust survivors use spatial terms to describe their experiences has been awarded a more than $73,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. UMaine Professor of History Anne Knowles was awarded the NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant for the project, […]

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30th annual Maryann Hartman Awards to be presented April 5

The 30th annual Maryann Hartman Awards at the University of Maine will celebrate the achievements of three Maine leaders — Maine Attorney General Janet Mills; calligrapher and book artist Nancy Ruth Leavitt of Stillwater, Maine; and Joyce Taylor Gibson, dean of the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn College. The Young Women’s Social Justice Award will […]

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Fifteen UMaine faculty members receive tenure and/or promotion

Tenure and/or promotion for 15 University of Maine faculty members has been approved by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees. The faculty were nominated by UMaine President Susan J. Hunter based on a peer and administrative review of their successful work in teaching, research and public service. “The caliber of these faculty members […]

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Innovate for Maine program matches interns with growing companies

The University of Maine’s Foster Center for Student Innovation is seeking motivated, innovative Maine companies that want to make a difference for the state through the Innovate for Maine Fellows program. The Innovate for Maine Fellows program connects the best and brightest Maine college students with the state’s most exciting, growing companies as a way […]

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