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In 2004,
UMaine leveraged $57 million in external grants and contracts as a
result of MEIF funding (a return of better than 5:1)
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There are
currently 739 jobs at UMaine supported by external grants and contracts
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Through formal
arrangements, UMaine supported 160 companies In 2004, providing
expertise, assistance and business development services. UMaine faculty
members and others also provided less formal assistance to countless
other businesses during the same time frame.
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The University
of Maine has more patents and patents pending than all of the other
Maine research institutions combined.
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UMaine's
estimated total student population this fall is 11,400.
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1,823 of those
students are first-year students, making this the largest entering class
since 1990.
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The new class
includes the largest number of out-of-state students since 1991.
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76 countries and 47 states (all but Oklahoma, North Dakota and
Hawaii) are represented in the UMaine student population.
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UMaine is a vital element of the state's economy. According to the
most current data available, UMaine contributes nearly $600 million
in economic output to the state's economy.
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For every dollar the state invests in the university, UMaine
generates $6.60 in economic activity.
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UMaine has just surpassed the $200 million mark in combined
endowment and holdings, a new high-water mark that is at or above
the level of most of UMaine's peer institutions regionally and
across the U.S.
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UMaine provides technical and research
assistance to well over 100 businesses each year.
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The UMaine Honors college continues to
grow and to be instrumental in UMaine's efforts to attract highly
qualified students. It started with 250 students four years ago, and
is now up to approximately 700 students.
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UMaine is one of just 151 institutions (4%) nationwide to be
classified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching as a “Doctoral Research – Extensive” university, the
highest classification possible.
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UMaine is one of the state’s top ten
employers and is a vital element in the economy of central Maine.
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UMaine attracts 92% of all federal research funding that comes to
Maine’s institutions of public higher education.
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More of Maine’s high school valedictorians and salutatorians enroll
at UMaine than all other Maine colleges and universities combined.
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Seventy-five percent of new
UMaine students who will enroll this fall report that UMaine was
their first choice of a college. More than half aspire to a graduate
degree, with three-quarters reporting that they feel either "well
prepared" or "very well prepared," according to a survey.
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Through University of Maine
Cooperative Extension and other outreach efforts, UMaine has a
physical presence and employees in each of Maine’s 16 counties. It
also has major outreach and research centers in Belfast, Walpole,
Presque Isle, Monmouth, Franklin and Jonesboro, in addition to
forest holdings statewide.
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Preliminary
data from an on-line survey of Summer Session students registered in
distance courses reveal that the majority of students are at home
(on-line) when taking their courses, while many also are located at UMS
Centers throughout the state or at their place of employment. A similar
survey was also conducted during the fall semester.
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UMaine is
responsible for about two-thirds of all graduate degrees in science and
engineering that are granted in Maine as well as all of the State's
doctoral degrees.
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UMaine's
graduate student population includes a number of students who have won
highly competitive fellowships including Fulbright awards, National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships, and EPA Star
Fellowships.
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UMaine's
Cooperative Ph.D. program in the biosciences has an off-campus
enrollment of 20 students and has produced doctoral degree recipients
who have completed their dissertation research at the Jackson Laboratory
in Bar Harbor and Maine Medical Center Research Institute in Portland.
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UMaine
graduate students studying through the statewide Institute for Molecular
Biophysics have access to a newly-acquired 4Pi Confocal Laser Scanning
Microscope, the world's most advanced optical microscope-capable of
revealing the nanostructure of genetic material within a cell in three
dimensions and the only such instrument in the United States.
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UMaine's
graduate program in Forestry was ranked fifth nationally in the last
Gourman report.
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UMaine has two
National Science Foundation Graduate-K12 Fellowship programs. The GK12
program under the direction of Prof. Susan Brawley recently received an
Award of Excellence from the New England Board of Higher Education.
Prof. John Vetelino directs the other GK12 program.
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UMaine Cooperative Extension has a physical presence and employees
in each of Maine's 16 counties.
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Cooperative Extension manages or participates in a variety of
regional or local programs related to ensuring the safety of the
food supply.
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Cooperative Extension conducted 104 workshops and distributed over
24,000 research-based publications related to health improvement in
2004; more than 6,000 Mainers attended Extension workshops related
to improving nutrition habits.
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More than 1,000 people attended 94 small and home-based business
workshops; small business clinic programming helped 188 Mainers
learn more about starting or growing a business.
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UMaine had enrolled 128 new international students who will begin
UMaine studies in the fall. Fifty-two of them will be graduate students.
Forty-eight countries will be represented by these new students.
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New countries that will be represented in the UMaine student
population include Mauritius, Bermuda, Mongolia, Ecuador and Peru.
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UMaine Gail
Werrbach of our social work faculty has a three year grant which allows
student exchanges with Spain, Belgium and Denmark. UMaine Social Work
students Alexandra Harkins and Justin Umel will study this coming year
in Belgium and Denmark, respectively. Two international students will
study social work at UMaine.
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Sixty-one UM
students will be studying abroad in the fall in 23 countries including
Malta, Turkey, Egypt, Japan and Taiwan.
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