What: 15th Annual WMPG Fat Tuesday Celebration & Cajun Cooking Challenge
When: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, from Noon-3 p.m.
Where: Woodbury Campus Center, USM Portland Campus (Bedford Street)
Press Inquiries: Dale Robin Goodman (207) 780-4151, development@wmpg.org
Dave Bass, vice president for retail operations at Hannaford Supermarkets, presents a $250,000 gift from the Hannaford Charitable Foundation to USM President Selma Botman.
The Hannaford Charitable Foundation is supporting the improvement of athletic and recreational facilities at the University of Southern Maine through a lead gift of $250,000 for the conversion of a grass field into a lighted, synthetic field on USM’s Gorham campus.
Dave Bass, Hannaford Supermarkets vice president for retail operations, presented the gift to USM President Selma Botman during halftime ceremonies at a USM basketball game in the Warren G. Hill Gym in Gorham. The field, to be known as Hannaford Field, will open following completion of a $1 million fund-raising campaign.
Members of the USM community have been asking what we can do to help the people of Haiti. In her latest blog posting, USM President Selma Botman shares advice from The Center for International Disaster Information on how we can offer much-needed assistance. Read the President’s blog post.
AACSB Accredited
“We have now cleared a higher bar,” said Business Dean James B. Shaffer in announcing that AACSB International (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) has granted reaccreditation to the University of Southern Maine School of Business.
Founded in 1916, AACSB International is the longest serving global accrediting body for business schools that offer undergraduate, master, and doctoral degrees in business and accounting. It’s also one of the most rigorous and prestigious, accrediting only five percent of schools of business, or 579 institutions across 35 countries.
USM’s Political Science Student Associate and Associate Professor Ron Schmidt invite the campus community to join them from 8:30 -10:30 p.m. in Room 113 Masterson Hall, Portland as they watch and discuss President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union Address.
For more information, contact Professor Schmidt at 780-4581 or rschmidt@usm.maine.edu .
Read about USM Lewiston-Auburn College’s latest exhibit, “The Inspired Hand IV,” in the January 19 Bangor Daily News.
This year’s Miss Maine is USM student Susie Stauble. Learn more about her in a WCSH-TV story that ran on January 18, and wish her luck at the Miss America competition.
Read a January 16 Portland Press Herald article about USM student volunteers who helped Portland school children learn about Martin Luther King Jr.
Muskie Professor Charles Colgan presented his annual “Breakfast with Charlie” Maine economic forecast for USM’s Corporate Partners on January 13. His predictions for 2010 were carried on ABC News.com and Boston Globe on January 13, and in the January 14 issues of Mainebiz, istckanalyst.com, and the Portland Press Herald.
On January 15, the Kennebec Journal ran a story citing Colgan’s economic analysis of the past decade.
On January 13, the Portland Press Herald announced School of Business Dean James Shaffer’s new assignment as USM’s chief operating officer.
