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January 22, 2024

Announcing the 2024 DMP and UMaine Alumni Award Honorees

A brilliant UMaine entomologist and community servant, and a highly accomplished educator, mentor and advocate in the field of social work in Maine lead an impressive class of honorees that will be recognized by the University of Maine Alumni Association at our Alumni Achievement Awards Dinner in April. Alumni Career Award From his twenty years of…

January 18, 2024

Ticks & Beer; how UMaine Alumni are teaming up for a cause

Tired of ticks? Raise a glass at Orono Brewing Company to support tick research featuring Alumni Jim Dill ’72, ’74G and Abe Furth ’07 News release Jan. 18, 2024 Written by: Ashley Yates, News Writer Contact: Shelby Hartin, 207.581.3745; shelby.hartin@maine.edu Orono Brewing Company is serving one of Maine’s pest experts Jim Dill twice by brewing his…

January 10, 2024

John Diamond ’77, ‘89G named President Emeritus

ORONO – Former University of Maine Alumni Association President John Diamond ‘77, ‘89G has been awarded the title of President Emeritus from the University of Maine Alumni Association Board of Directors. The term “Emeritus” is a title awarded to only a few select individuals in recognition of distinguished and extraordinary service.  Diamond, who earned a…

December 20, 2023

Black Bears Inside the Beltway

UMaine’s Congressional Internship Program marks 65 years By Allen Adams ’14 [To view story in the MAINE Alumni Magazine, click here]  The University of Maine’s Congressional Internship Program recently marked its 65th year of providing UMaine students with the opportunity to work in the offices of a Congressional delegation.   That longevity speaks for itself, yet…

August 18, 2023

Remembering the Maine Gay Symposium

A UMaine club’s planned event led to the most contentious public controversy in the university’s history [To view story in the MAINE Alumni Magazine, click here] In 1973, a week or so into his freshman year at the University of Maine, Dan MacNaughton spotted a flyer in the Hilltop Commons dining hall.  U of Maine Gay…

August 10, 2023

Athletic Training Enhancement Campaign

Building New England’s Premiere Athletic Training Program: Enhancing Well-being. Ensuring Peak Performance. Saving Lives. UMaine’s Athletic Training program is the only program in the state featuring: • Full integration with and routine access to Division 1 athletics. • 100% passage of the national certification examination on the first attempt over the last two years, compared to the…

July 19, 2023

Alumni Association Honors Black Bear, Block M, Class Correspondent Awardees

Block “M” Award Each year the Alumni Association presents the Block “M” Award to deserving individuals who, over a period of years, advance the strength and success of their alumni class, Chapter, and/or Alumni Interest Group. No more than six awards may be given annually, and only alums are eligible. Patricia Fraker ’57 has assumed many leadership roles,…

July 19, 2023

Stephanie Tillotson ’23 Awarded $8,500 Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship

Stephanie Tillotson ’23 of Cumberland Foreside, Maine, has been awarded a Fellowship worth $8,500 by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi—the nation’s oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Tillotson is one of 62 recipients nationwide to receive a Phi Kappa Phi Fellowship. Tillotson received a bachelor’s degree in Spanish from the University of Maine. As a Phi Kappa…

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June 14, 2023

Alumni Association Board Welcomes New Members

Six alumni have joined the UMaine Alumni Association Board of Directors, as four board members reached the end of their six-year terms.  New board members pictured left to right: John Yates ’80, Marie Tobin ’94, Tanner Adams ’15, ’16G, Connor Bray ’23, Travis Noyes ’96, and Ashleigh Briggs ’09. John Yates ’80 is the Ernest…

May 26, 2023

Alumna Melissa Crowe ’96 Publishes New Book

Alumna Melissa Crowe ’96 published a new book, Lo. Lo maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and offers an intimate portrait of the woman—tender, hungry, hopeful—who manages to emerge. In a series of lyric odes and elegies, Lo explores the notion that we can be partially constituted by lack—poverty, neglect, isolation. The…