Student Life

Four people pose for a photo outside of the Versant Power Bangor Operations Center.

Business students power professional growth with summer internships at Versant

Four students from the University of Maine interned at Versant Power over the summer, powering professional growth in areas from accounting to human resources.  Maine Business School (MBS) undergraduate students Alanna Berube, Wyatt Byther and Bailey Clarke, along with graduate student Ernest Asane, were able to apply the skills they’ve learned in the classroom to […]

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Press Herald highlights UMaine research presented at Harborfest

The Portland Press Herald highlighted a presentation and demonstration completed by two University of Maine students at Camp Ellis Harborfest, a festival on a pier that dates back 30 years and returned annually three years ago. Ph.D. students Kaylyn Zipp and Joseph Dello Russo demonstrated how UMaine’s Pelagic Fisheries Lab takes samples from tuna heads […]

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Reasons to be Cheerful highlights Local Catch Network, UMaine graduate student

Reasons to be Cheerful published a story in collaboration with the Local Catch Network, which is based in the University of Maine School of Marine Sciences, that highlighted a UMaine graduate student who is studying the impact of Sea-to-School community programs. The story explores these types of programs, which integrate fresh seafood from Maine’s coast […]

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Business student co-develops award-winning AI chatbot for Sherwin-Williams

When Connor Daigle of Union, Maine attended a career event at the Maine Business School, he didn’t expect it would lead him to a top-tier internship and an award-winning team project. Daigle, who is double majoring in marketing and business information systems and security management, led his team to victory in Sherwin-Williams’ Eastern Division Internship […]

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Nolan Dries: Brewing innovation through internship 

From brewing beer to building a business model, Nolan Dries is getting hands-on experience with innovative entrepreneurship.  A junior from Windham, Maine, Dries landed an internship with Orange Bike Brewing Co. through the Innovate for Maine Fellows program. He’s not just learning about the booming non-alcoholic beer industry; he’s helping shape it.  “I’m piloting a […]

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Media highlight UMaine student research at annual fishing competition

The Harpswell Anchor and News Center Maine covered the annual Casco Bay Bluefin Bonanza at Port Harbor Marine in South Portland, where students from the University of Maine Pelagic Fisheries Lab took samples and recorded data from tuna caught during the competition to understand more about the highly migratory species. Money raised during the tournament, […]

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Chyanne Yoder: Turning the tide on disposable food containers 

Roughly 15% of plastic waste cleaned up along Maine’s coastlines comes from foodware. Chemicals used in plastic production often leach into the environment and pose health risks once absorbed into the body. Chyanne Yoder, a Ph.D. student at the University of Maine, aims to squash this source of pollution by supporting coastal communities’ efforts to […]

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TV 7 looks into Maine Sea Grant Atlantic salmon conservation

WFVX (FOX 22/ABC 7 in Bangor) joined the Maine Department of Marine Resources and interns and staff with the University of Maine-led Maine Sea Grant to look into how a team is helping preserve Atlantic salmon. An internship program funded through Maine Sea Grant and NOAA Fisheries helps the DMR preserve these fish.

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National PEO Scholar Award opportunity available for UMaine doctoral students

The Philanthropic Educational Organization (PEO) in central Maine, a local nonprofit, is seeking a doctoral scholar from the University of Maine in the final two years of their program to serve as a nominee for the National PEO Scholar Award.  The National PEO Scholar Awards were established in 1991 to provide a substantial one-time, merit-based […]

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Gov. Mills, UMaine President cut ribbon to reopen newly modernized Aroostook Farm, home of world-class potato breeding program

The research farm recently underwent a $3 million renovation funded by the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan so that the land-grant university could accelerate its development of new potato varieties, like the successful Caribou Russet, and the growth of Maine’s agricultural economy and workforce Gov. Janet Mills and leaders of the University of Maine and […]

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