College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences think reorganization may be the way
Posted on February 24, 2014 by Sidney Dritz in News
The dissolution of the former department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures occurred at around the same time that the college it was a part of, the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, embarked on a path towards larger organizational change. “This is my final year as dean,” explained Lynn Kuzma, dean of […]
Student senate finds less funds to allocate than anticipated
Posted on February 24, 2014 by Sidney Dritz in News
The Student Senate will be forced to turn away student proposals for funding soon, with funds running low and proposals running high. Student Senate vice-chair and senior economics major Will Gattis explained that when he was reviewing proposals for fund requests, he realized that the senate would not have enough funds to approve spending for […]
Students to ask Board of Trustees to divest
Posted on February 24, 2014 by Sidney Dritz in News
Money won’t be the only topic of conversation that’s green at the upcoming University of Maine System’s Investment Committee meeting of the UMS Board of Trustees this Friday. For the second February in a row, the question of financial divestment of fossil fuels is on the agenda for the BoT meeting. This time, a group […]
Direction Package pushes for metropolitan university identity
Posted on February 24, 2014 by Sam Hill in News
Members of the Direction Package Advisory Board largely agreed that USM’s future should be as Maine’s metropolitan university, as the group’s meetings come to a close this Friday. The board met for a preliminary roll-out of the work that had been done in the three sub-groups for the past two months last Friday. While each […]
First USM Career Week attended by few
Posted on February 14, 2014 by dakotawing in News
Attendance at Husky Career Week events last week at USM was limited. Student Success and Student Life on the Portland and Gorham campuses teamed up to plan this first-time week of events in anticipation of this Wednesday’s job fair. Rodney Mondor, student success coordinator for the Portland campus, said Career Week is a response to […]
Student government nominations go live
Posted on February 14, 2014 by Sam Hill in News
Nominations for this spring’s student government elections opened up last Monday, and the Student Government Association is waiting for student nominations to come rolling in. This year, the SGA is making promotion of the elections a top priority and focusing on making the process easier for students. “We want to get as many people nominated […]
Senate pushes for Direction Package details
Posted on February 14, 2014 by Skyla Gordon in News
At the Faculty Senate meeting last Friday, faculty members expressed concern to President Theo Kalikow about the purpose and conclusions of the Direction Package committee. The committee is scheduled to present its findings to Kalikow on Feb. 28. Many at the meeting were frustrated, saying that Kalikow wasn’t giving enough details pertaining to the initiatives […]
Scientific journal publishes student’s research
Posted on February 14, 2014 by hguaciaro in News
The work of an bioinformatics class offered at USM in spring 2013 will be published in Frontiers in Genetics, an online science journal, with USM undergraduate Jeffrey Thompson leading the co-authorship of the peer-reviewed paper. The article, entitled “Common features of microRNA target prediction tools” is in part the work of Thompson, a USM senior […]
Taking it to heart
Posted on February 10, 2014 by Sidney Dritz in News
When you love someone, you don’t literally give them your heart (we hope), so what is this feeling that is as important to our emotional lives as the blood pumping through our bodies? What is love? In a highly informal poll taken in the Woodbury Campus Center cafeteria at lunch time, not a single student […]
Tar sands oil debate hits USM
Posted on February 03, 2014 by dakotawing in News
The debate over tar sands landed on USM’s doorstep last Friday as hundreds gathered in the Hannaford Lecture Hall to discuss the transportation of the controversial resource. The event was sponsored by 350 Maine in partnership with the Natural Resource Council of Maine. 350 Maine is a grassroots organization dedicated to solving the crisis of […]
