Office of Public Affairs

Submit USM News

We welcome your submissions for news stories about the endeavors of our USM students, faculty and staff, and programs, to share with USM audiences and our surrounding community. The Office of Public Affairs staff strategically reviews news submissions to best determine levels and types of coverage. To help get news published, please fill in all the information below as thoroughly as possible. Thank you!

Upon receiving a news submission, if more information is needed, someone from the Office of Public Affairs will respond as soon as possible.

*Please note this form is not for emergency communications.

For scholarly research and publications, we also encourage faculty to share their work on the Digital Commons. 

A sentence or two summarizing this news tip at a glance.
Please include all of the details necessary to compile a news item (who, what, where, when). You may write this as a news brief for editing, or just provide a list of the facts for us to write a brief.
Enter any links related to this news story if applicable.
Please feel free to share suggestions for any specific audience you think it would be strategically important to reach and the Office of Public Affairs will determine the best method of publicity.
If you have questions, please contact us. Photos are preferred for news stories and must be high quality. If images include visible faces, a photo release form is required: https://usm.maine.edu/marketing/photo-release
Files must be less than 8 MB.
Allowed file types: gif jpg jpeg png.