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Vision

To make Maine the best state in the nation in which to live, work, and learn.

Mission

To serve as the gateway to the University of Maine research, education, and outreach resources, programs, and services, by acting as the front door for the university engagement in Portland and beyond, through comprehensively serving the education and business needs, preparing the knowledge-and-innovation workforce, and being a major contributor to societal advancement and economic development.

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Center for Undergraduate Research (CUGR)

CUGR facilitates faculty-mentored research, scholarship and creative activities for undergraduate students across all academic disciplines. Its primary mission is to increase, improve and enhance undergraduate students’ participation and experiences in research, scholarship and creative activity. Undergraduate research allows motivated and interested students to become critically engaged in a culture of independent learning and participate in the creation of new knowledge.
Three female students using a microscope

Margo Lukens

Margo Lukens is a professor in the UMaine Department of English, where she teaches colonial to 19th-century Anglo-American and a variety of Native American literatures. Her research interests include Wabanaki literary and storytelling history, Native American and First Nations drama, innovation, and decolonization.
Portrait of Margo Lukens

Oisin Biswas

Oisin is a graduate biomedical engineering student whose work at the VEMI Lab consists of developing a quick method of surface contamination identification, with potential applications in autonomous vehicles. He was recently awarded a Maine Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) graduate research fellowship for research aligned with the priorities of NASA’s Earth and space science strategic enterprises.
Photo of Oisin Biswas in front of stone building

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