Dear UMPI Community, We learned this morning that a case of COVID-19 has been identified within our campus community. Contingency plans were immediately set in motion and Maine Center for Disease Control protocols are in place. The residence hall student tested positive for COVID-19 as part of UMPI’s asymptomatic testing program. We are able to … Read more
Dear UMPI Community, With just a few days left before our shift to remote learning, UMPI is again in an exceptional situation. We’ve learned that our first known case of COVID-19 has been declared a false positive. Our testing provider made the highly unusual move of reversing the positive test result based on follow-up testing. The … Read more
Dear UMPI Students, First and foremost, my thanks to each and every one of you who took in-person classes and/or resided on campus this semester for contributing to a safe and secure environment. And my continued best wishes to those of you, wherever you have called home this semester, as you studied at a … Read more
Dear UMPI Community, I write to confirm that, as planned, all classes and campus offices and services will resume normal operations on Monday morning. My thanks to everyone for the immediate and remarkably efficient response to this situation. My special thanks to all of the Facilities Management crew who worked this weekend to ensure that our … Read more
Dear UMPI Community, We’d like to thank you all for your quick response and understanding this morning as we shifted to remote work and learning for the day. We are very pleased with how efficiently our contingency plans have moved forward since learning of our first known case of COVID-19. While you already know that … Read more
Greetings campus residents, I’m following up with some additional information regarding the positive Covid-19 test at UMPI. The individual who tested positive is NOT an on-campus resident, this individual is doing their isolation off-campus and is asymptomatic. We are currently working through our contact tracing process, and we will be asking a small group of individuals … Read more
Dear UMPI Community, We learned early this morning that one case of COVID-19 has been identified within our campus community. Our contingency plans have been set in motion with the individual placed in isolation and contact tracing procedures initiated. Maine Center for Disease Control protocols are in place. We are able to report that the … Read more
Dear UMPI Students, As Chancellor Malloy has stated, the University of Maine System students, faculty, and staff have done an amazing job maintaining safety measures to keep our community safe. We also want to recognize that COVID fatigue is real. This can include physical exhaustion and general tiredness, as well as decreased motivation and increased … Read more
Greetings UMPI Owls! I hope you are safe, healthy, and well. I want to thank you for doing all you can to help keep our campus and community a safer place. Next Monday, October 12, 2020 is Indiginous Peoples’ Day in Maine. In recognition of this day, UMPI offices are closed and classes … Read more
Dear UMPI Students, We are all very happy to have you all back on campus this fall. We are also very proud of the safety protocols you have been following to help keep our campus safe during these first few weeks of the semester. Due to that hard work and sacrifices everyone has made we are … Read more