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2024 News Releases

51Æ·²è2024 News: Advancing Access, Innovation, and Leadership

​In 2024, the 51Æ·²è (UNE) made significant strides in enhancing educational access, leadership, and community engagement.​ Highlights from the year include our free tuition initiative, leadershup appointments, and athletic achievements.

Two 51Æ·²èdental hygiene students provide dental education to a child at a local social services center
UNE, Opportunity Alliance partnership providing low-income families access to much-needed dental care
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Graduating 51Æ·²èOnline student credits degree program for prestigious fellowship
Several medals bearing the Deborah Morton Society seal are splayed out on a table
51Æ·²èto Honor Two Maine Women During 2024 Deborah Morton Awards
A student presents a slideshow to a room of people
Marine Sciences students present at Saco Bay Tackle Seminar
Medical students examine an x-ray in a lab
51Æ·²èand University of Vermont forge collaboration to enhance rural health care
A 51Æ·²èstudent leads a group of teenagers through field games
51Æ·²èBusiness Students Lead Recreation Workshops for Oxford Hills Teens
A business student watches a class lecture
51Æ·²èlaunches three new majors to drive business innovation
A child examines a sensory board
Smiles and Imaginations Abound at Annual OT Adaptive Expo
Two female students sit in front of a computer with large numbers of data appearing on a TV screen
51Æ·²èannounces new School of Computer Science and Data Analytics
2024 University Awards Aiden Hosien
51Æ·²è Honors Top Students with 2024 University Awards
Portrait of Harry Filippakis
51Æ·²èreceives $100,000 Department of Defense grant to combat rare kidney cancer
A photo of a group of students posing at the PSI CHI induction
51Æ·²èPSI CHI Honor Society inducts 19 members for 2023-24
Norm O'Reilly
51Æ·²è hires Norm O’Reilly as inaugural College of Business dean
Members of UNE's Community pose in front of a mural inside the Alfond Forum
'Here Comes the Sun': 51Æ·²èCelebrates Installation of New Biddeford Solar Array
Three students and a professor assemble part of a wheelchair together
51Æ·²èoffering expanded, accelerated options toward careers in occupational therapy
COM students
Four 51Æ·²èmedical students awarded prestigious substance use disorder fellowship
Thomas Judge LifeFlight of ME
Thomas Judge addresses emergency health care challenges at special provost lecture
Aerial of the Biddeford Campus
51Æ·²èstudents to debate issues of Biddeford’s past at historic Meetinghouse April 25
President James Herbert addresses the DEI celebration attendees
51Æ·²èhosts inaugural diversity, equity, and inclusion celebration
Students instruct a child how tp play with the marble run they built by hand
51Æ·²èOccupational Therapy program to host annual Adaptive Projects Expo on April 23
A group photo from the Take Back the Night event
Nor’easters unite to ‘Take Back the Night,’ end interpersonal violence
Portrait of a woman smiling in front of the forest
Meet Katelyn DeWater, UNE's latest recipient of the Goldwater Scholarship
A medical student smiles with her classmates in a 51Æ·²èlab
Gov. Mills honors contributions of Maine’s medical school
Cameron Wake addresses audience at climate talk
UNE’s Cameron Wake calls for collective action at annual climate solutions event
Portrait of John Mohan
UNE's John Mohan presents at regional marine research conference