For Ethan Howe, investing is about more than the money: it’s about the challenge, the thrill of taking risks, and the community that he has built around it. Aside from his involvement with student investment funds on campus, he has used his knowledge of the market to lead a UMaine team in a global competition,…
Professor Pankaj “Pank” Agrrawal, Ph.D. has proven his deep care and commitment to the success of UMaine students. Pank created the Student Essentials Fund here at the Foundation in 2019 and continues to contribute to its value as a way to support students with expenses associated with their degree progress. Because of his generosity, business students can…
Karen and Tom Guter met over fifty years ago while both were students at UMaine. They later worked together in Fogler Library, as students, for Dr. James C. MacCampbell (Dr. Mac). Dr. Mac served as the Head Librarian at UMaine from 1962-1982. He saw the library as “obviously, its center of learning.” During his tenure…
As far as art goes, ceramics are exceptionally bulky. Ceramics classes need space for clay, drying shelves, kilns and a variety of glazes. For university art programs, the equipment-heavy ceramics can often fall by the wayside, even if interest is high. Thanks to a generous donation from Sam and Sarah Goos, whose daughter Ariel studied…
Since established in 1989, the ten Libra Professorships at the University of Maine have been transformational in attracting and supporting outstanding faculty. Libra Professors, among the best and brightest in their fields of study, have provided exceptional educational opportunities for thousands of UMaine students across disciplines over the last three decades. The design of the…
Our student gratitude story this week features Crispin Kamundala, a 4th-year political science student with a double minor in legal studies and foreign affairs. He received the John M. Nickerson scholarship. The John Mitchell Nickerson University of Maine Memorial Scholarship Fund at the University of Maine at Orono was established in 2014 by the University…
Chanthu Millay’s art is raw and intimate: a technicolor self-portrait in painstaking detail, a metal sculpture comprised of pieces of her old prosthetic leg, a ceramic sculpture depicting the emotions she experienced as her family’s lone survivor of the violent Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. Millay’s art wasn’t always so personal. Her education at the…
Makaila Bailey, a student in the Environmental Horticulture Program, has had a significant impact on our campus. This past summer, she started working to propagate the Campana elm tree, which lived next to Hitchner Hall for over 150 years. Before it had to be removed in August for safety, she was a part of the team collecting…
Orono, Maine — University of Maine alumni donors Phillip and Susan Morse have committed $10 million for naming rights to the multipurpose arena that is part of the UMaine Athletics Master Facilities Plan. The contribution is part of the private fundraising campaign underway to meet the $90 million challenge grant for UMaine athletics as part of UMS…
Anonymous donors’ $55,000 gift to create the Native American Cultural Sustainability Fund at the University of Maine Foundation provided the seed funding to assist a collaborative hire between Native American Programs and UMaine Extension. Tony Sutton began the fall semester as Assistant Professor of Native American Food Systems at UMaine. Sutton’s position will focus on…
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