Black Bear alumni, faculty, staff, and students are among Maine’s most productive innovators and entrepreneurs. In this month’s column, we hear from John Belding ‘96, director of UMaine’s Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC), an engineering support and research center specializing in precision manufacturing. Over the past several years, the AMC has completed a series of major…
Editor’s note: story updated Oct. 7, 2022. A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Oct. 1 at the University of Maine for a $28 million project to renovate Coburn and Holmes halls, two of the oldest buildings on campus, both of which have been unoccupied for more than a decade, and develop them into boutique hotels.…
Members of the classes of 1951, 1953, 1957, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1970, 1971, and 1972 returned to campus to celebrate reunions with classmates and friends September 8-10. Reunion-goers enjoyed several open houses, opportunities to meet with and hear from current students, tours of buildings and facilities including the new Ferland Engineering Education and Design…
Black Bear alumni, faculty, staff, and students are among Maine’s most productive innovators and entrepreneurs. In this month’s column, we hear from Caitlin Howell ‘06, ‘08G, associate professor of biomedical engineering, a member of the University of Maine System Science Advisory Board, and research scientist at UMaine’s VEMI Lab. Howell, who studied biology at UMaine,…
Don’t miss your chance to join us in Orono for Homecoming 2022 October 14-15. Come cheer on the Black Bears when they take on the Monmouth Hawks at 1:00 on Saturday, and participate in other campus activities. Registration is open and available here.
First-year students and their families got a Hearty Maine Hello and warm welcome on move-in day as they moved into their dorms. Students, faculty, and staff came together to help get students settled and acclimated to campus on August 26th. The fall semester began on Monday, August 29th.
Giovanna Guidoboni, associate dean for research and professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Missouri, has been named dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Maine, effective January 16, 2023. She will fill the position left by Dana Humphrey who retired August 31 after 36 years with the college.…
The E. James and Eileen P. Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center (Ferland EEDC) opened last month with over 500 people from throughout the state attending the grand opening. The state-of-the-art facility will have the capacity to increase engineering enrollment by a third — 600 additional students a year — to meet the demand of students…
Alumnus Merritt David Janes ’04, Broadway actor, is returning to UMaine and gathering some of his friends and colleagues to perform on the CCA stage. Each will sing their favorite songs from the shows and roles they’ve performed on Broadway. Even more special is knowing Janes and several of his classmates originated Broadway Rocks while students at…
Black Bear alumni, faculty, staff, and students are among Maine’s most productive innovators and entrepreneurs. In this month’s column, we hear from Orion Schwab, a rising senior and computer science major at UMaine who spent the summer as a fellow in the Innovate for Maine program run by the Foster Center for Innovation. Innovate for…
Four Maine Business School alumni joined Bangor Savings Bank as management trainees. The management program will take each alum through six months where they will rotate through all of the bank’s departments, implementing bank projects, working on their professional brands, leadership, and leadership skills. The trainees include Emily Colter ’22, Sierra Dorney ’20, ’22G, Braden…
This summer welcomed a new group of students to the Intensive English Institute (IEI) at UMaine from Chile, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, and Ukraine. Because English language learning is so much more than being in the classroom, the institute works to provide additional cultural exchange, community building and community integration to its students.…