BDN highlights UMaine commencement speakers
The Bangor Daily News reported on the speakers announced for the UMaine and University of Maine at Machias commencement ceremonies for 2022 graduates and 2020–21 alumni, May 6–8. Jacob van de Sande, a land protection project manager for Maine Coast Heritage Trust, will address the UMaine Machias commencement ceremony that begins at 11 a.m. May 6 in the Performing Arts Center. Alumna Shontay Delalue, senior vice president and senior diversity officer at Dartmouth College, will address UMaine’s Graduate School Commencement that begins at 4 p.m. May 6. Nadia Rosenthal, scientific director and professor, The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, will give addresses at the 220th Commencement ceremonies for 2022 undergraduates. Those ceremonies begin at 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. May 7. Alumna Ukeme Awakessien Jeter, a partner at Taft, a national law firm, will address the commencement celebration May 8 for alumni of the Classes of 2020 and 2021. All UMaine ceremonies are in Harold Alfond Sports Arena.