President Ferrini-Mundy

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Maine Day of Giving celebrates philanthropy as service on April 27

Maine Day of Giving on April 27, the time when University of Maine alumni and friends near and far unite in support of the College of Our Hearts Always as a way to participate in the traditional annual Maine Day of service, is setting fundraising records. More than $2.5 million in donations lead off this […]

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UMaine’s first equal opportunity director to receive honorary degree

The University of Maine will award an honorary doctorate to JoAnn Fritsche, UMaine’s first director of equal opportunity and also director of the Women’s Development Program, whose vision and leadership transformed the university’s curricula to be more inclusive, and led to the creation of a women’s studies program. Fritsche, of University Place, Washington, a longtime […]

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UMaine names 2022 Presidential Award winners

This year’s University of Maine Presidential Awards recognize outstanding achievement in teaching in Earth and climate sciences, research in the biophysics of flow-related biological and physiological functions in humans and animals, and impactful community engagement in nursing, particularly during the past two years of the pandemic. Karl Kreutz, director and professor of the School of […]

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Ferrini-Mundy interviewed by WGAN about Maine Impact Week

University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy was interviewed by Newsradio WGAN (AM 560/FM 98.5) about Maine Impact Week. Maine Impact Week is a week-long experience occurring in April of every year, culminating in the UMaine Student Symposium held on Friday. Events are hosted by groups all over campus and featured on the Maine Impact Week […]

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UMaine names 2022 valedictorian and salutatorian

Political science major Dominique DiSpirito of Woonsocket, Rhode Island is the 2022 University of Maine valedictorian and Maxwell Burtis of Brunswick, Maine, a mechanical engineering major, is this year’s salutatorian. Both are students in the UMaine Honors College. “Dominique and Maxwell are truly outstanding members of our community and their UMaine student experiences are what […]

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‘The Maine Question’ asks what being an R1 university means for UMaine

In February, the University of Maine received an R1 designation from the prestigious Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. This rank serves as the highest possible tier a doctoral research university can achieve in the Carnegie Classification, and it places UMaine among the top 4% of research universities nationwide. In Episode 7 of Season […]

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Aminata Sissoko: From Mali to the Mall

Aminata Sissoko loves doing paperwork. With her job in the University of Maine President’s Office, the global policy graduate student is not only perfecting her English, but she also is learning about the day-to-day work that makes organizations tick — work that she sees as vital to her future career in global organizations.  Sissoko was […]

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