April 10, 2018 Dr. Ferrini-Mundy, the chief operating officer of the $7.8 billion National Science Foundation and a New Hampshire native, has provided campus-based academic leadership as an associate dean, and served as professor of mathematics at two land grant universities.Dr. Joan Ferrini-Mundy will be the 21st president of the University of Maine and the read more Dr. Joan Ferrini-Mundy to lead University of Maine and University of Maine at Machias