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	Podcast:		Maine Things Considered
	Episode:		UMaine System Chooses National Science Foundation Leader To Head Orono Campus
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2018-04-11 05:20:04
	Description:		The chief operating officer for the National Science Foundation has been tapped to lead the University of Maine’s flagship campus in Orono. Joan Ferrini-Mundy will become UMaine’s next president on July 1, when current President Susan Hunter steps down from the post she has held for the last four years. Ferrini-Mundy made her public debut before an audience of students, faculty and the UMaine board of trustees, who gathered at a morning press conference in Orono. “I can barely wait for July when I will join you full time and when presumably it will be warmer,” she said. Ferrini-Mundy will also serve as president of the University of Maine at Machias as part of an arrangement reached last year with the Down East campus. She is leaving the National Science Foundation, a federal agency with a nearly $8 billion operating budget that worked with 2,000 institutions last year to support the investigation and discovery of 359,000 researchers, teachers and students. Ferrini-Mundy said UMaine is
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