UMaine Machias News

Theme: Life at UMM Send us your smiling faces! We want quality pictures of you and your friends enjoying all that UMM has to offer. In the lab. On the beach. In the book arts studio. In the classroom. In the community. In the residence hall. Wherever life at UMM happens! Contest will be judged […]

The second in the annual Roque Island series of lectures on Environmental Conservation will be presented on Wednesday, November 15th at the University of Maine at Machias.  Dr. Nicholas Fisichelli will present a lecture “Seeing the Future Forest Through the Trees: Potential Changes and Management Responses.”  The lecture, sponsored by the Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative […]

On Wednesday, November 8 at 5:30 pm, the Psychology and Community Studies Department at the University of Maine at Machias will host a screening of the documentary film SEED: The Untold Story. The film will be followed by a discussion with two renowned Maine food sovereignty activists, Jim Gerritson and Will Bonsell. Supported by funds […]

University of Maine at Machias will host a Veteran’s Day luncheon from 11 am – 1 pm in the Reynolds Center Conference Room on Monday, November 13. Sponsored by the university’s Student Accessibility Services and Student Activities, the event is free and open to the public. RSVPs are requested, but not required.  Entertainment will be […]

The holiday classic, The Nutcracker, will be performed by the Robinson Ballet in the Performing Arts Center on Saturday Nov. 18 at 3:00 and 7:00 pm. Tickets are $12 adults/$6 students/seniors, and $3 children 12 and under. Tickets will be available beginning November 6. Call 255-1409 between 10:00 – 4:00 Monday-Friday.

The Alumni Spotlight shines this month on Arlena Ryan from Jonesport, Maine, who graduated from the University of Maine at Machias in 2016 with a major in College Studies and Business Management. She is currently working as an administrator at Sunrise Care Facility. Tell us a little bit about what you are doing now: Sunrise Care Facility […]

Poet and book artist Emma Sovich is visiting UMM this week and working with our creative writing students to make broadsides in the book art studio. On Wednesday, November 1, she will deliver a reading of her poetry at 6 pm in Merrill Library. Free and open to the public. Come support our visiting writer […]

UMM engineering student Philip Parent and faculty member William Otto are featured in this story on Maine Public. It highlights one of the ways that the One University initiative is changing the path through college in really important ways, and how UMM is a key part of that change. So many great, hands-on programs here […]

UMM senior Olivia Streit earned the first place award in the poster competition at the annual Maine GIS Education Conference on Friday. Her poster, entitled “GIS Modeling of Shoreland Zoning Regulations to Support Municipal Compliance,” focused on the complex geospatial models she built during her summer internship in a project for the Washington County Council […]