What's New at the Graduate School

  • To: Department Chairs, Graduate Coordinators, and Administrative Assistants From: Dean Sandweiss and Associate Dean Delcourt Date: January 15, 2013 RE: Open Nominations for 2013-14 Financial Awards The Graduate School is currently accepting nominations for competitively-awarded fellowships, assistantships and scholarships for the 2013-14 academic year (see HERE for 2013-2014 Award Nomination Guidelines ). The nomination deadline for the fellowship and assistantship awards is February 8,...
  • The Graduate Student Government is hosting a workshop on Friday, January 25th from 1-3 p.m. in 57 Stodder Hall titled: "Job Search Tools and Etiquette: Preparing for Non-Academic Careers".  Career Advisors from the UMaine Career Center will cover the tools and skills necessary to compete in today's job market and will answer questions such as: What is the difference betweeen a CV and a resume? What resources do I use to find a non-academic job? How and when do I negotiate bene...
  • Posted January 14, 2013   Four History doctoral students have recently published in major journals. Joesph Miller and Robert Gee are current students, while Katherine O’Flaherty and Stefano Tijerina are recent graduates. Joseph Miller’s paper “General William Hull’s Trials: Was This Early PTSD? One Possible Explanation for the Unprecedented Surrender of Detroit, 1812” was recently published in the Canadian Military Journal. Miller is a new doctoral student i...
  • Skylar Bayer, a Doctor of Philosophy student in Marine Biology, is the January 2013 Graduate Student of the Month. Graduate School: Where are you from originally? Bayer: I am from the Greater Boston Area and Cape Cod. Graduate School: What undergraduate institution(s) did you previously attend? Bayer: I did my Master of Science in Biological Oceanography in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MIT-WHOI) Joint Program and I received my Bachelors of Scien...