Reed Gallery presents For the Love of Art exhibit

The University of Maine at Presque Isle’s Reed Art Gallery will present For the Love of Art: Selections from the Carl and Alice (Graves) Hitchcock Collection through September 2022.

When Carlos Villoria was playing baseball for the University of Maine at Presque Isle, he didn’t know he’d someday work in Major League Baseball, he just knew he always wanted the sport to be part of his life.

Two hundred and thirty-five students graduated from the University of Maine at Presque Isle during the 2021-2022 academic year.

The University of Maine at Presque Isle will be piloting a new program this fall that provides students with hands-on, professor-guided research during their very first year of college.

Four hundred and sixty-nine students at the University of Maine at Presque Isle have been named to the Dean’s List for the spring semester, according to Dr. Ray Rice, UMPI President and Provost.

University of Maine at Presque Isle Geology Professor Kevin McCartney has had a busy year, returning this summer from a nearly 4-month Fulbright Fellowship to the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences in Lucknow, India, and publishing what he refers to as his “grand paper” in the science journal Marine Micropaleontology. 

Georgia-based artist Henry Dean is inviting local artists and community members to collaborate with him on an expansive art project titled “Light Trace 24,” a series of artistic installations that will track the 2024 total solar eclipse.

University Credit Union (UCU) renewed its athletic sponsorship agreement with UMPI’s Athletics Program with a three-year agreement for $10,500 in additional funding for venue improvements, equipment upgrades, and other activities.

University of Maine at Presque Isle Early College student Dorcas Bolese received several awards—including a first place Congressional Art Award—for work she’s done in classes with UMPI Art instructor Michelle Mishaan through UMPI’s Houlton Higher Education Center. Bolese, a senior from Yarmouth High School, has taken two of Mishaan’s art classes. She received a Congressional … Read more

The University of Maine at Presque Isle honored several employees for their years of service during the Employee Recognition event on May 26.