Mt. Desert Student Top Graduate in UMaine College
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — Benjamin Briggs of Mt. Desert has been selected as the top graduating senior in the University of Maine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He will carry the college’s banner into UMaine’s Alfond Arena at the beginning of the university’s Saturday, May 12 commencement ceremony.
Briggs, who will receive a chemistry degree on Saturday, plans to enroll in meidcal school at Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine following graduation. At UMaine, he is a member of the Senior Skulls Honor Society and a brother of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
He shares credit for his UMaine success with others in the UMaine community, including two chemistry professors.
“I have been influenced positively by the support and guidance of my research advisors Alice Bruce and. Mitchell Bruce,” Briggs says. “They have helped me develop into a true ‘scientific thinker.'”
The son of Daniel and Florenda Briggs and Suzanne and J.F. Burns, Briggs graduated from Orono High School ins 2002.