UMaine System working on plan to reimburse students for room and board, following spring break

Water quality, economics focus of 2019 Libby Lecture in Natural Resource Policy 

Catherine L. Kling will present the University of Maine’s third annual Libby Lecture in Natural Resource Policy on Thursday, Sept. 19.

UMaine receives funds for remote sensing research for large-scale forest health assessment

State-of-the-art geospatial data collection and modeling to assess, monitor and forecast the quality, health and value of Maine forestlands is the focus of a new NASA-funded project led by the University of Maine.

Registration now open for the 2019 Maine Volunteer Leadership Conference

The 33rd edition of the Maine Volunteer Leadership Conference will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 15 at the University of Maine in Orono.

UMaine in Princeton Review’s ‘The Best 385 Colleges’

The colleges and universities profiled in this year’s “The Best 385 Colleges” represent nearly 13 percent of America’s 3,000 four-year colleges.

UMaine researchers explore the role of tone policing, calls for civility in student voice

Two University of Maine professors are out with new research examining how calls for civility and tone policing factor into the growing practice of student voice in preK–12 schools.

Latest Maine Policy Review now available

In the issue’s Margaret Chase Smith Essay, transplanted Mainer and college student Matthew Bourque reflects on the strength and character of Maine’s political tradition.

Bilingual signage — English and Penobscot — now at UMaine

The project, now in its first phase with the installation of 10 signs across campus and internal signage throughout the halls of UMaine’s Wabanaki Center, developed from conversations between the UMaine Wabanaki Center and Wabanaki communities in Maine over the last few years regarding the relative invisibility of Indigenous people, places, history and languages at the university, and the specific need for Penobscot language signage on the Orono campus.

Lord Hall Gallery hosts two summer exhibitions 

Two exhibitions that speak, in different ways, to the nature of life and the importance of transformation or change will be on display July 19 through Sept. 20 in Lord Hall Gallery at the University of Maine.

July star shows at the Emera Astronomy Center

The northern lights, rocketry, and the International Space Station will be some of this month's themes.