South Portland Student Top Graduate in UMaine College
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Mikaela Martin of South Portland has been selected as the top graduating senior in the University of Maine College of Engineering. She will carry the college’s banner into UMaine’s Alfond Arena at the beginning of the university’s Saturday, May 12 commencement ceremony.
Martin, who will graduate from UMaine’s Honors College and will receive a civil engineering degree on Saturday, plans to enroll in graduate school at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst following graduation. At UMaine, she has served as chapter president of the local chapter of Chi Epsilon, the national civil engineering honor society. Martin is also a member of Tau Beta Pi, a national engineering honor society; Pi Mu Epsilon, a mathematics national honor society; and the honor society Phi Kappa Phi.
The daughter of Jane and Stephen Martin, she graduated from South Portland High School in 2003.