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About 40 members of the USM community marched in the 2022 Pride Portland! parade in a return to form after the event was postponed for two years by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a collaboration between USM and Gorham Savings Bank, the Promise Scholarship Program provides paid internship opportunities for underserved students.

With an estimated half a million documents, photos, political campaign items, oral interviews, and artifacts, USM’s LGBTQ+ Collection is believed to be the largest in Maine.

USM's Ed Reichert was 20 years ahead of the Tony Awards in recognizing Robyn Hurder's star quality.

Veterans Services staff led a group of walkers on a four-mile route around Portland's Back Cove with five stops along the way to honor members of the USM community who died during active military duty.

Regulating cryptocurrencies, protecting pollinators, and repatriating cultural objects to their countries of origin were some of the topics that delegates debated at the Maine Model United Nations Conference.

Edmondson comes to USM from Penn State, which enrolls nearly 90,000 students, where she was a tenured full professor in the College of Education, and most recently led a regional campus, where she added eight degree programs to meet local workforce needs and colleagues described her as “our champion every day.” She will live on USM’s Gorham campus.

The University of Southern Maine celebrated its 142nd Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 7th with more than 900 graduate and undergraduate students marching across the Cross Insurance Arena stage, marking the university’s first in-person commencement in three years.

The once-tiny ASL Interpreting program has grown.

His second try at college proved to be the success he was looking for.