Rising Tide Center

UMaine News Release, April 3, 2013 – Associate Professor of Higher Education Leadership Susan K. Gardner has accepted the position of Director of the ADVANCE Rising Tide Center effective April 1. Read more about personnel changes for the NSF funded ADVANCE project by clicking here.

UMaine News Release, March 18, 2013 – The University of Maine System Board of Trustees has approved promotion and/or tenure for 22 University of Maine faculty members.  All were nominated by President Paul Ferguson based on a peer and administrative review of their successful work in teaching, research and public service. Read the press release […]

USM News Release, Oct 31, 2012 – The University of Southern Maine has received an ADVANCE IT Catalyst award of $150,000 from the National Science Foundation.  The award will support conduct of a study to identify strategies for recruiting, retaining and advancing women faculty in STEM and Social-Behavioral Sciences at USM. Click here to read […]

UMaine News Release, November 27, 2012 – Professor of Entomology and Director of the School of Biology and Ecology Eleanor Groden talks about the impact of a colony of 20,000 live bees recently installed in Murray Hall. Read the story here.

Women in Academia, April 24, 2012 – Ten women faculty at the University of Maine have been featured on the Women in Academia website in a posting describing recent promotion and tenure awards. Read the story here.

June 10, 2011 – Read the summaries of the nine projects funded by the ADVANCE Rising Tide Center for 2011 by clicking here.

UMaine News Release, June 9, 2011 – Mary Madden, University of Maine associate  research professor in the Center for Education and Research, has been named the director of UMaine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center.  Click here to read the news release.

UMaine News Release, May 27, 2011 – The University of Maine’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center has announced its first round of grants aimed at fostering the professional development of UMaine female faculty members in the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines, along with social and behavioral science (SBS) disciplines. Click here to read the […]

University of Maine News Release, April 18, 2011 – Susan Brawley of the UMaine School of Marine Sciences and botany faculty received the Northeast Algal Society’s Frank Shipley Collins award at the organization’s 50th annual meeting over the past weekend.  The award honors exceptional and meritorious contributions to phycology and the Society. Click here for […]

On March 16th, the University’s Board of Trustees approved the promotion/tenure of 31 faculty. Click here for the full story.