The candidates will each visit Maine beginning next week to meet with faculty and students.
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Head of UMaine System has financial stake in firm seeking multimillion-dollar contract for Orono campus
The system’s audit committee recommends James Page recuse himself if company linked to James W. Sewall wins the contract to provide energy to UMaine.
Secret recordings point to improper influence by top UMaine official in lucrative power contract
A university official was said to be coaching ConEdison, the winning bidder for a multimillion-dollar energy deal involving the Orono campus and an abandoned Old Town paper mill.
UMaine professor placed on leave in wake of complaints
The university is investigating the behavior of English professor Robert ‘Tony’ Brinkley.
UMaine System 2 years ahead of its goal of sourcing 20 percent of its food locally
The university system is getting 23 percent of its food from local growers and producers, and is on track to spend $1.5 million on goods from 134 Maine food producers this fiscal year.
Maine researchers explore link between climate change and Lyme disease
Academic and health care investigators are learning more about the complex web of factors driving the expansion of tick habitat, including global warming.
Colby College hires former UMaine football coach Cosgrove
Longtime University of Maine coach Jack Cosgrove, 62, will return to sidelines after coaching the UMaine Black Bears for more than two decades.
How and why Hillary Morin Peterson happened upon a whole new species of wasp in Harpswell
She was doing battle with invasive moths (using science).
UMaine’s Old Town mill project will ensnare taxpayers, companies warn
Two that lost a bid to create renewable energy at a vacant paper mill file appeals, saying ConEdison Solutions hasn’t outlined the cost of a venture likely to exceed $100 million.
In death, Maine writer Elizabeth Ilgenfritz leaves a legacy
Scholarships in her honor will help midcoast writers follow their passion.