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Doug Allen

Allen named 2020 Gould Award winner

Professor of philosophy Doug Allen, who is internationally recognized for his lifelong civil rights, peace and social justice scholarship, teaching and activism, is the recipient of the 2020 Steve Gould Award. The award was created in 1981 by the family and friends of Steve Gould in memory of “a man of honest and passionate concern […]

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Fogler Library

2020 Presidential Awards announced

Two faculty members in the School of Marine Sciences and one in the College of Engineering are the recipients of 2020 Presidential Awards at the University of Maine. Sara Lindsay, associate professor of marine sciences, received the Presidential Outstanding Teaching Award. Bob Steneck, professor of marine sciences, received the Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award. […]

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Alumni Hall

Four inaugural Presidential Fellows named

Four faculty and staff members have been named University of Maine Presidential Fellows in a new leadership program launched by President Joan Ferrini-Mundy to advance three themes tied to UMaine’s strategic plan — fostering learner success and research learning; research-practice partnerships; and telling the UMaine story. The themes for 2019–20 are designed to engender universitywide […]

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Community Learning for Maine website launch event announced

The nonprofit Rural Aspirations Project will host a virtual launch for its new website, Community Learning for Maine (CL4ME) on Thursday, May 14 from 4–5 p.m. on Zoom. The University of Maine College of Education and Human Development helped develop the site, with associate professor of educational leadership Catharine Biddle serving in an advisory role […]

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Research buoy

Girgis helps design novel low-cost environmental monitoring buoy 

Joshua Girgis ’18 earned his degree in mechanical engineering and headed to the Darling Marine Center to work with Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center director Chris Davis and others to design an environmental monitoring buoy. The goal is to build a buoy that gathers real-time information about ocean temperature, salinity and productivity so oyster and seaweed […]

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Noah Falkner

Falkner selected for Critical Language Scholarship

Noah Falkner was selected in March as a recipient of the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS). He is the first student ever from the University of Maine to receive the award.  Falkner, a graduate student in the School of Policy and International Affairs (SPIA), had planned to study Mandarin Chinese in Tainan, […]

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UMaine students receive Boren Awards

Two University of Maine graduate students have been awarded the Boren Fellowship and one undergraduate student is an alternate for the Boren Scholarship. The Boren Awards fund the intensive study of language and culture abroad by U.S. undergraduate or graduate students who plan a career in public service. The $24,000 fellowship funds 37 to 52 […]

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