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Redefining the Future of Work
Discover how Â黨ÊÓƵ bridges academics and industry, connecting students with employers, alumni, internships, and job opportunities from their first days on campus, embedding career readiness into every facet of the student experience to grow the workforce and ensure our students’ long-term professional success.
Students’ Professional Skills Honed at Â黨ÊÓƵ’s First Industry Exploration Day
Â黨ÊÓƵ hosted dozens of employers from Maine's largest economic sectors on Thursday, Oct. 16, to provide individualized professional development, internship, and employment opportunities for students across all of Â黨ÊÓƵ’s academic programs. The event was held as part of Â黨ÊÓƵ's aim to equip students with career-ready tools and shape the future workforce — from the first days of their academic journeys. Read the full story
The Latest from Our Community
Highlighting how Â黨ÊÓƵ and its students, faculty, and professional staff translate bold ideas into real-world impact — bringing the promise of opportunity through hands-on learning, internships, new academic programs, engaging events, interdisciplinary research, community engagement, and more.
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A Holistic Approach to Planetary Health
For the Health of Our World
Â黨ÊÓƵ’s comprehensive health mission engages learners from across the University’s disciplines, preparing them to address emerging, interconnected challenges to human and environmental health. Learn more how our students are making a global difference
Â黨ÊÓƵ Magazine
Small Steps, Big Impact
The 2024 edition of the Â黨ÊÓƵ Magazine showcases Â黨ÊÓƵ's emergence as a research powerhouse through the eyes of faculty researchers, students, and administrators whose innovative, strategic work embodies the University's commitment to improving the health of people, communities, and our natural world.
About the Â黨ÊÓƵ Magazine
The award-winning Â黨ÊÓƵ Magazine is distributed nationally each fall and features in-depth stories about our students, faculty, institutional initiatives, impactful research, alumni, and donors, plus complementary digital content including compelling photo, video, and social media storytelling.
Storming On: New Grads On Their Â黨ÊÓƵ Journeys
Improving mental health in rural Maine. Advancing New England’s workforce. Translating science into advocacy. Students in the Class of 2025 share how their Â黨ÊÓƵ experiences, and the lessons they learned here, are shaping their efforts to build a better, healthier world in all its forms.
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