2023

Fall:
UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy
Keynote Address: Dr. Habib Dagher, P.E. – Executive Director, Advanced Structures & Composited Center

Spring:
UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy
Keynote Address: Bob Bennett ’77 – CEO of EngageSmart
*with special guests of UMaine MBS students

2022

Fall:
Keynote Address: Richard Corey, PhD, MFA -Director of the Vemi Lab. “‘Tech-quity’ and inclusion: Making Ride-share Accessibility a Reality”

Spring:
Paul Mayewski – Director and Professor Climate Change Institute
Peter Madigan ’81 – Board Chair – William S. Cohen Institute for Leaders & Public Service, Adjusnt Professor of Leadership Studies.

2021

Fall:
Keynote Address: Rod Sparrow ’71 – Past President and Owner Leaktite Corporation. “How lessons learned as a UMaine business student and football player helped turn the 5-gallon bucket into a brand powerhouse.”
UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy

Spring:
Dannel Malloy – Chancellor, University of Maine System

Panelist Discussion
The UMaine System Transforms: Harold Alfond Foundation Grant Update

Moderator: UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy

Co-Principal Investigator, UMS TRANSFORMS

Panelists:

James Thelen, General Counsel and Chief of Staff to the Chancellor Co-Principal Investigator, UMS TRANSFORMS

Kimberly Whitehead, Vice President and Chief of Staff
Project Director, UMS TRANSFORMS

John Volin, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Lead, Student Success and Retention Initiative

Ken Ralph, Director of Athletics, University of Maine Lead, Black Bear Athletics Initiative

Dana Humphrey, Dean, University of Maine College of Engineering Lead, Maine College of Engineering, Computing, and Information Science Initiative

Leigh Saufley ’76, Dean, University of Maine School of Law Lead, Maine Center for Graduate and Professional Studies Initiative

2020

Fall:
UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy “The 2020-2021 Academic Year: New Challenges, New Successes”
C. Ann Merrifield ‘73, ‘75G – Current biotech board leader, former senior biotech executive. “From UMaine to a Biotech Career”

Spring:
UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy
Gary N. Tanguay ‘86 – Anchor/Talk Show Host, NBC Sports Boston

2019

Fall:
UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy
Dan Christensen ‘77 – Past President/CEO of the Hancock Natural Resource Group, Boston

Spring:

Ken Ralph, Direct of Athletics University of Maine “The State of Black Bear Athletics: Where we are and where we are going.”

Joseph VanBuskirk, Senior Sports Marketing Manager, New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. “New Balance in the global, local, and Maine environments.”

2018

UMaine President Joan Ferrini-Mundy

Andrew Graff ’86
Dean François Amar, Ph.D.
Kim Dao ’14

2017

Dean Dana Humphrey, Ph.D., P.E.
Christopher Gordon ’85

Dr. Susan J. Hunter ’50H
Mike Flynn ’97

2016

James S. Ward IV
Kris Burton
Jean Praderio George ’80
Susan J. Hunter ’50H

Karlton Creech
Jack Cosgrove ’78, ’84G
Joe Harasymiak

2015

David D. Hart, Ph.D.
Caroline L. Noblet, Ph.D.
Kate Beard-Tisdale, Ph.D.
Spencer Meyer, ’14 Ph.D.

Carol Kim, Ph.D.

2014

Susan J. Hunter ’50H

Jeffrey E. Hecker, Ph.D.
Dana Humphrey, Ph.D.
Ivan Manev, Ph.D.

2013

David Fiacco
Lauri Sidelko
Steve Trimper
Mark Cavanaugh

Karen Brandt Byers ’73G
Sandra Lawrence ’71
Ann Merrifield ’73, ’75G

2012

Dr. James H. Page
Paul W. Ferguson, Ph.D.