WVOM-FM interviewed University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy on the George Hale Ric Tyler show. Ferrini-Mundy spoke about the economic root of declining enrollment, disruptions caused by the pandemic, current COVID-19 policies at UMaine and the university’s R1 designation.
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With the grand opening of the E. James and Eileen P. Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center (Ferland EEDC) at the University of Maine, a new chapter begins in engineering education to better meet the needs of students and employers, including the innovation to advance research and economic development. Upward of 500 people from throughout […]
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Samantha Hegmann-Wary, associate athletic director for compliance and senior woman administrator at the University of Maine, has been named UMaine interim athletic director, effective Sept. 1. She will serve through the national search to fill the permanent position held by Ken Ralph, who has been named athletic director at Southwestern University. “I look forward to […]
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A new lab to study how the latest artificial intelligence tools and techniques could bolster advanced manufacturing in northern New England will be launched with a $6 million award from the National Science Foundation to the University of Maine. UMaine will collaborate with the University of New Hampshire, University of Vermont, Southern Maine Community College, […]
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The Annual Maine Wild Blueberry Pancake Breakfast for the UMaine community, hosted by President Joan Ferrini-Mundy, will take place Aug. 5, 8–9 a.m. on the Mall, with a rain location at Wells Conference Center. Maine’s second annual Wild Blueberry Weekend will take place Aug. 6–7.
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Editor’s note: Story updated Aug. 1. A more than 150-year-old American elm tree at the University of Maine that was saved by pioneering research on Dutch elm disease and that inspired the establishment of a campus natural heritage fund has succumbed to rot in its trunk and will be removed from the Hitchner Hall landscape […]
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If passed by the full Congress and signed by the President, the FY23 federal budget will provide $53.3 million to the System in one-time funding to advance key university workforce development and innovation projects, many of them led by the R1 University of Maine, to address state needs Orono, Maine — Leaders across the University […]
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The University of Maine has once again been featured in the annual Fiske Guide to Colleges. The publication, authored by former New York Times education editor Edward Fiske and updated annually for nearly 40 years, highlights more than 300 of the “best and most interesting” schools in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain and Ireland, according […]
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A University of Maine researcher will serve as an expert witness at a Congressional hearing Tuesday afternoon examining the role of farmers and ranchers in solving climate change and increasing food production. Rachel E. Schattman will virtually participate in a hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Environment that begins […]
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The Maine Department of Education shared that University of Maine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy participated in a panel discussion on how Maine is paving the way for students and teachers to be successful in the world of computer science. “The more we can engage with computer science at the Pre-K through 12 level, the more ready […]
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