Welcome from Dean of Students
Dear Huskies, Welcome to the University of Southern Maine! Whether you are a new or continuing student you are an important part of our campus comRead More…
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Welcome from President Cummings
By: Glenn Cummings, USM President To our new and returning students, welcome to the fastest growing, most exciting university in Maine. Those oRead More…
City of Portland decides to forgo USM’s offer to house asylum seekers
By Lydia Libby, Web Editor In a release Wednesday, President Cummings notified the USM community that the City of Portland has declined the universRead More…
Working on Wellness: Beware of the bugs
By Lisa Belanger, Director of Health Services With the arrival of spring, Ken and Ethan are eagerly anticipating the end of the semester and are taRead More…
Sustainability and Me: How to be a sustainable college student
By Shereen Toolabi, USM EcoRep As the semester comes to an end and I finish up my undergraduate career, I realized that throughout my four years atRead More…
Four winning entries: Poems for the Earth contest
GRACE SLEEMAN Malachi The bees let me pet them if I was patient. If I sat by the lavender gardens long enough, they would crawl over my skRead More…
Meet the Student Body President Candidates
Three USM students are running for Student Body President in this week’s elections, running from April 8 through 11. Shaman Kirkland JunioRead More…
Working on Wellness: Let’s talk about sex
By Samar Post Jamali, Family Nurse Practitioner To quote the forever amazing Salt-N-Pepa: “Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby.” As a nurse practitionRead More…
Letter to the Editor: Dear President Cummings and Provost Uzzi
By Nikki Farmer, USM Student I’m writing to express my frustration at USM’s inaction on real Maine issues. For example, Maine’s high rates of dRead More…
Photo Gallery: USM students present Unlock’d
From March 1 to March 10 USM theatre students put on the production of Unlock’d, a modern-ish musical romance. The production was also a collaboraRead More…
Working on Wellness: Resilience
By Janis Mallon, Ph.D. University Health & Counseling Services Depression and anxiety rates are trending up among teens and young adults. More Read More…
Guest editorial: Food insecurity on college campuses
By: Hawraa Rikan, Food Studies Intern The food industry produces massive amounts of surplus each year, yet food insecurity remains an issue throughRead More…
Sustainability and ME: Eating sustainably in Maine
By Oona Molyneaux, USM Eco-Rep Are you interested in living more sustainably? Do you like food? If your answer is yes, this article is going to be Read More…
Working on Wellness: Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea … oh my!
By: Lynn Howard, MSN, ANP-C, FNP-C USM Health & Counseling Services When these symptoms are present it is near impossible to function. What is Read More…
Snow day on a deserted campus
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Working on Wellness: Perfectionism
By Conan Deady, USM Health & Counselling Intern Are you a perfectionist? If so, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Psychologists have long soRead More…
Guest Editorial: Queer Representation in Digital Media
By Cameron Ramich, USM ‘20 Queer representation in all sorts of media is something that LGBTQIA+ activists have been fighting for, for years. GorRead More…
USM weekly events highlights: February 21-28
By: Maureen Puia, PR/Events Promotion Associate February 21 Thursday evening, 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., don’t miss the opening reception for locaRead More…
USM Events Feb. 15 – Feb. 21
Looking for something to do? Check out these events for the week of Feb. 15 to Feb. 21 from Maureen Puia at the Office of Public Affairs February 1Read More…
Men’s Indoor Track & Field ranked tenth nationally
By Cullen McIntyre, Sports Editor Winning has become a habit over the past couple years for USM’s Men’s Indoor Track & Field team. Having wRead More…
Working on Wellness: Love thyself
By Amy Hinshaw, FNP-BC It’s February. We are being bombarded with visions of glittery hearts, deep red roses and cherubic cupids. Our minds are iRead More…
Sustainability & ME: Sustainable laundry
By Hanna Lima, USM Eco-Rep Doing laundry is unavoidable. What most of us probably don’t think about is the impact doing laundry has on the enviroRead More…
USM’s daycare dilemma
By Katie Letellier, Staff Writer In 2009, USM closed it’s daycare for students, faculty and staff due to university-wide budget cuts. The daycareRead More…
People of USM: Maryann Russell
By Ryan Farrell, Staff Writer Mental health has become a reoccuring conversation piece over the past couple of years. Since many students deal with sRead More…