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21 Mar 2024

University receives $25,000 gift from Kennebunkport Resort Collection

posted in: Career & Employment Hub, Press releases, University news, USM Foundation |

The Kennebunkport Resort Collection gift will name the parenting room on the third floor of the McGoldrick Center, a floor dedicated to cultivating student leadership opportunities and connections, with additional spaces set aside for USM’s Diversity Center, student organizations, Promise Scholars, and the Student Government Business Office.

The glow of flashlights capture the eerie mood of an alien invasion in the Theatre Department's production of "The War of the Worlds."

15 Mar 2024

Media or Martians? Radio play ponders which of them is the real invading army

posted in: Department of Theatre, Office of Admissions, University news |

The Theatre Department chose “The War of the Worlds” as its first radio play to be produced at the University’s new recording studio.

Westbrook High School student Makayla Morello looks at a book with two students in an elementary school classroom

15 Mar 2024

USM partnership puts high schoolers on the path to teaching

posted in: Office of Admissions, School of Education and Human Development, Teacher Education, University news |

One day last year, while stressing about finding a future career, Wade Leavitt wondered what it would be like to teach. He was a … Read More

Supporters of the new Crewe Center for the Arts sign the project's last structural beam.

13 Mar 2024

Community celebrates major construction milestone on the new Crewe Center for the Arts

posted in: College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Department of Art, Department of Theatre, Office of Admissions, Osher School Of Music, Press releases, University news, USM Foundation |

University leaders, arts faculty and students, and founding donors were joined by Consigli Construction Co., Inc. and other members of the project design/build team to mark a major milestone in the evolution of a building project when the last structural beam is put in place.

Archival photos helped jog the memories of former players who attended a reception to celebration Paula Hodgdon's induction into the Maine Field Hockey Association Hall of Fame.

7 Mar 2024

Hall of Fame induction opens a floodgate of gratitude for Paula Hodgdon

posted in: Department of Athletics, Office of Admissions, University news |

Former players jumped at the chance to congratulate and thank Paula Hodgdon at a reception to celebrate her most recent hall of fame induction.

OSWLI Executive Director Christina McAnuff and Gina Guadagnino, chief of staff to the USM president, display a newly signed charter establishing USM's first alumni chapter of the Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute.

7 Mar 2024

Olympia Snowe Women’s Leadership Institute creates first alumni chapter at USM

posted in: Communication and Media Studies Department, Equity, Inclusion, and Community Impact, Office of Admissions, Press releases, Tourism and Hospitality, University news |

The Institute was the creation of its namesake, Olympia Snowe. In 1979, when she was only 31 years old, Snowe became the youngest Republican woman ever to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.