General University of Maine Publications

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Report

Publication Date

12-31-2021

Abstract/ Summary

The State of Maine’s investment in the Maine Economic Improvement Fund (MEIF) is a vital and ongoing commitment to advancing the research mission of Maine’s public universities. With the flagship University of Maine leading the way, the University of Maine System multiplies the impact of MEIF funding several times over by advancing knowledge and research that leads to job creation and economic growth for the benefit of all Maine people. The importance of the UMS research mission has never been more clear than through the ongoing pandemic and public health emergency. COVID-19 has changed the world, and public research universities across the globe stepped up to rapidly respond in myriad ways unique to their research missions. In Maine, the research capacity of our public university system, bolstered by decades of MEIF and other investments, has been an important foundation for our ability to help lead Maine’s fight against this global pandemic. Even as our universities successfully transitioned to remote teaching and learning, talented faculty and researchers, staff and students stepped up to serve our state, with university laboratories, centers and facilities pressed into service in new ways to protect public health and solve the problems that Maine’s communities and companies faced in the pandemic.

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