The UMaine System school says it is ending the Russell Scholars program and eliminating several management positions, but would not say how many employees would be laid off.
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Maine’s tour guide to outer space is signing off after 25 years
During his tenure at the University of Southern Maine’s Southworth Planetarium, Edward Herrick-Gleason has narrated thousands of sky tours and astronomy shows and established himself as local media’s go-to expert for all things astronomical.
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Graduation season begins as hundreds receive degrees from the University of Southern Maine
The University of Maine System handed out thousands of degrees in ceremonies in Orono, Augusta, Farmington, Fort Kent, Presque Isle, Portland and Machias.
Posted inMaine, Politics, Schools & Education
College graduations begin in Maine even as protests disrupt ceremonies around the U.S.
Protests have mostly been small and peaceful on Maine campuses, where students have joined the call to end to the war in Gaza and for their schools to divest from defense funds.
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USM students in Portland join nationwide campus protests in support of Palestine
Roughly 30 people, mostly students, demonstrated peacefully Wednesday at a rally organized by Maine Students for Palestine, which includes students at schools throughout the state.
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USM Lewiston campus holds vigil for Oct. 25 victims
Students, staff, faculty and administrators at University of Southern Maine Lewiston-Auburn College reflected Tuesday on the Oct. 25 mass shooting which took 18 lives.
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WMPG documentary to premiere at USM
“An Extraordinary Place,” a 30-minute documentary film about WMPG Radio, the renowned radio station affiliated with the University of Southern Maine, will premiere at the WMPG 50th birthday party at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 14, at the McGoldrick Center for Career & Student Success on the campus of the University of Southern Maine in […]
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USM opens new career center on Portland campus
The McGoldrick Center will house the University of Southern Maine’s student career development services and function as a place for business engagement, among other uses.
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USM tapped to develop ethics training in age of artificial intelligence
The University of Southern Maine has received a federal grant to develop an ethics training program for scientists, engineers and students.
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School year in Maine begins with familiar staffing shortages
Special-education teachers are in especially short supply.