As a third generation Black Bear, Emily Carbonetti’s connections to the University of Maine run deep. Her mom’s family was from Augusta, and her grandfather and both of her parents graduated from UMaine.
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On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Julia Van Steenberghe’s parents’ living room in Old Town was transformed into a veritable TV studio, with ring lights surrounding her as she gave probably the biggest interview of her life so far.
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Cindy Soule, a 4th grade teacher at Portland’s Gerald E. Talbot Community School, is the 2021 Maine Teacher of the Year. A lifelong Maine resident, Soule has a Bachelor of Arts degree in social work from the University of Maine (‘92) as well as a master’s degree in special education from the University of Southern Maine.
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Emma Richardson, a first-year master’s student in human development from Blue Hill, Maine, was awarded a 2020 University of Maine Student Symposium award for her project, “The Co-Parent Co-op.”
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University of Maine graduate student and alumna Maylinda Boynton of Belfast, Maine learned a lot about performing arts at UMaine.
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Bangor High School science teacher and University of Maine alumnus John Cangelosi (’96, ’12G) is one of 107 educators nationwide to receive a 2020 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST).
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The Portland Press Herald, the Penobscot Bay Pilot, the VillageSoup and the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel reported on the finalists for 2021 Maine Teacher of the Year, including two University of Maine alumnae.
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Cindy Soule, a fourth-grade teacher at Portland’s Gerald A. Talbot Community School, and Heather Webster, an English teacher at Medomak Valley High School in Waldoboro, are two of the three finalists for 2021 Maine Teacher of the Year.
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Katelyn Ellis of Dixfield, who will graduate this summer with a Bachelor of Arts in kinesiology, is one of the first students to earn their degree from the University of Maine under the Maine’s Top Scholar (MTS) program.
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The 2020–2021 Margaret Chase Smith Public Affairs Scholarship has been awarded to Tom Adams, a University of Maine secondary education major from Falmouth, Maine.
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