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…
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…
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,…
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…
The Maine Legislature is finalizing a two-year State budget and with Black Bear support, it will make historic investments in the University of Maine to expand student enrollment, accelerate cutting-edge research and modernize mission-critical infrastructure. Amidst unprecedented inflation, Governor Mills and the Legislature’s Education Committee have endorsed a 4.5% increase to the University of Maine…
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…
Join us for an informative webinar with, Giovanna Guidoboni, inaugural Dean of Maine College of Engineering and Computing, which bridges engineering and computing programs for the benefit of all students across the University of Maine System. The University of Maine System Board of Trustees approved an initial engineering framework for the Maine College of Engineering…
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…
The Maine Department of Education and Educate Maine announced the 2023 County Teachers of the Year at a ceremony in the Hall of Flags at the Maine state capitol this week. Among the 16 members of the 2023 class were five teachers with degrees from the University of Maine or the University of Maine at…
The Alumni Association welcomed thousands of new graduates following the 2023 commencement ceremonies, as we hosted an Alumni Welcome Center tent and handed out gifts to UMaine’s newest, official alumni group. The tent also featured an Alumni-stamped backdrop for photos. The Association serves as a wonderful way for alumni to stay in touch with the…
Ken Olson ’68 retired in 2006 from a three-decade conservation career that included twenty years as chief executive of three nonprofit corporations, running black budgets every year. His fulltime charitable work began in 1971 when, at 25, he became the youngest person ever to direct the Appalachian Mountain Club’s combined Hut System, Pinkham Notch Camp, Saco…
Ecologist and conservation biologist Janet McMahon was bestowed the honor at the Maine Land Trust Network Annual conference held May 3 in Rockport, Maine (May 3, 2023, Topsham, Maine) – Maine Coast Heritage Trust (MCHT) has named Waldoboro resident Janet McMahon as recipient of the 2023 Espy Land Heritage Award, an annual award that recognizes an…