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Everything you need to know about 2026 commencement

UMaine announces 2026 Presidential Award winners

UMaine will honor five faculty members, recognizing excellence in research, teaching, innovation, public engagement and extraordinary impact.

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Student research team helping coastal businesses adopt reusable takeout containers

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Showcasing ingenuity, UMaine students test communication skills by presenting work to the community

Students to assemble 80,000 meals for pantries statewide during Maine Day Meal Packout April 29

Meet UMaine Machias’ 2026 valedictorian and salutatorian

Amid teacher shortage, schools statewide look to UMaine for professional, experienced future educators

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From ‘Sea-to-Sky,’ UMaine students learn about our dynamic Earth in Iceland

Faculty Focus

UMaine English professor Caroline Bicks talks new book: ‘Monsters in the Archives’

An old predator may be a new threat to lobster. UMaine research will get to the bottom of it.

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At UMaine, NIH leader says AI could reshape medicine and expand rural care

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UMaine’s Guidoboni, Neivandt elected to prestigious AIMBE College of Fellows

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Merely Players: UMaine’s Original On-stage Bear Pair

UMaine leading international study to develop rapid noninvasive disease detection for Atlantic salmon farms

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Appalachian Adventure: Father-daughter team hikes famous footpath from Georgia to Maine

Meet the 2026 Outstanding Graduating Students

UMaine students gain real-world guidance as they prepare to enter Maine’s blue economy

UMaine’s Witter Farm connects K-12 students to Maine’s agricultural future

Why are some seals more resistant to disease? A UMaine student investigates

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UMaine to host Early College Discovery Day for high school students April 30

Celebration of life to be held for Stephen Butterfield at UMaine

Buffalo Wild Wings GO opens in Wells Central

UMaine conference featuring former ambassadors goes global in Maine April 18

Passamaquoddy language keeper to deliver lecture on Doctrine of Discovery April 14

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CNN interviews MacRae on Bangor ranking among best cities for air quality

Parade, New York Post and other media feature Bicks new book on Stephen King

Martha Stewart interviews Singh on removing a tree stump

Media feature Staudinger’s new research new threat to lobsters

‘Maine Calling’ features Isenhour on the growth of “re-use” for Earth Day

Black Bear Profiles

Hamidah Aldarwish: Outstanding Graduating International Student

Ella Boxall: Outstanding Graduating Student

Dianne Brindisi: Outstanding Graduating Student

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UMaine education researchers share latest studies at AERA annual meeting

Ph.D. student presenting at statewide nutrition and dietetics conference at UMaine

Glover earns Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award

Maine Press Association awards scholarships to two UMaine students

UMaine faculty featured in the 2026 edition of Farmers’ Almanac

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