Next month, visitors to a new exhibit at the Maine Discovery Museum in Bangor will be able to don a virtual reality headset and become immersed in a fish farm, seeing a 360-degree, panoramic, 3-D underwater world created by University of Maine new media senior Eric Morrison. Wearing a VR headset, a visitor will be […]
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When Alex Rahman decided to come to the United States to attend college, he had two goals. He wanted a university that believed in him enough to help him graduate debt free, and one that offered a challenging business curriculum and a diverse set of activities and work experiences outside the classroom, all preparing him […]
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University of Maine senior Han Nguyen found her passion in an Introduction to Chemistry course her first year on campus. The Vietnam native enjoyed the intellectual challenges the course presented and especially liked the related laboratory work. And Nguyen came to appreciate chemistry’s role in daily life — from the clothes we wear to the […]
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For Gabriela Constantin, a second-year student from Romania, one of the best things about her chemical engineering major is the opportunity to gain work experience as part of her studies. Every October, companies recruit students through the College of Engineering’s Co-op Program. Constantin got an offer to spend the fall 2017 and summer 2018 working […]
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Miranda Roberts of Hermon, Maine spent five weeks last summer working in the office of a member of the Canadian Parliament. The only UMaine student to receive last year’s Canadian Parliamentary Internship, Roberts traveled to Ottawa with about 30 students from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, which partnered with UMaine for the program. From May 8 […]
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When Samuel Borer isn’t choreographing the University of Maine’s next School of Performing Arts dance performance, running an ultramarathon, protecting the nation from weapons of mass destruction or figuring out new ways to detect one of the physical world’s most elusive subatomic particles, he’s probably thinking about space exploration. Borer has wanted to be an […]
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Growing up in New York City, Zikomo Barr had no notion that he’d one day end up in Maine, pursuing a degree and career in post-secondary student affairs. “It’s not an industry or a field that you aspire to go into when you go to college. It’s something that you stumble upon or realize that […]
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Only months after completing his bachelor’s degree at Colby College and fresh from a stint as a field technician for the National Aquatic Monitoring Center based in Utah, Andrew Newcomb had no immediate plans to pursue a post-graduate degree. Until, that is, he got wind of a Ph.D. research assistant position at UMaine as part […]
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Outside her childhood home in Boulder, Colorado, Kimberley Rain Miner used to cover one eye to block from her sight the utility box located among trees and the boulders dropped by glaciers. Miner, now an Earth and climate sciences Ph.D. student at the University of Maine, imagined being in a completely natural environment. And for […]
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Colin Bosma gained perspective growing up at an elevation of 8,230 feet in the Rockies in Nederland, Colorado. Its motto: Life is better up here. And he has developed mindfulness — a judgment-free, moment-to-moment awareness of his present thoughts, sensations and environment — through his study of psychology. Mindfulness is central to research Bosma is […]
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