Irja Hepler started working at the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Composites Center (ASCC) before college, when she landed an internship as a sophomore in high school. Now Hepler, a civil engineering major from Orono, is a senior at UMaine. “I really like math and I especially like applying it to the real world, […]
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A family connection brought Bradley Denholm to the University of Maine from Kempton Park in Johannesburg, South Africa. The opportunity to contribute daily to projects designed for Maine businesses kept him here. That connection was Denholm’s grandfather, William “Bill” Bacigalupo, who graduated from UMaine in 1966 with a degree in mechanical engineering. Nearly 50 years […]
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Jarred Haynes of Westbrook, Maine had the experience of a lifetime this summer studying abroad in Kerambitan, Bali, in Indonesia. The sophomore anthropology major studied through the School for International Training (SIT) Biodiversity and Conservation Studies program, which focused on biodiversity, resource-use patterns, and conservation initiatives in the surrounding community. Haynes, who also has an […]
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Hannah Nadeau of Litchfield, Maine spent her summer immersed in research to help solve the issue of food waste. And her interest in nursing brought a unique perspective to the project. “Nursing is a passion for me because every day I will get to help others. I cannot wait for the highs and lows that […]
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Earning a bachelor’s degree in three years and getting a head start on a dream career is the focus of two University of Maine students. For Ben Leary, a chemical engineering major, the Early College partnership between UMaine’s College of Engineering and Thornton Academy, a private school in Saco for grades six–12, was crucial to […]
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When Brenda Boucher LaFrance returned to Orono in August to move her youngest daughter, Grace, into a residence hall at the University of Maine, it was deja vu. Not just because she is an alumna, but because she has done this two other times, with three of her older children. Brenda and Jim LaFrance of […]
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When Stephanie Mulligan was a sophomore at University of Maine, she started writing a poem about her experience working on the Lucky Catch, a lobster fishing tour boat out of Casco Bay. “I loved every day,” she says. “I loved the people I met from all over the world — they were always excited to […]
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Virginia Hugo-Vidal had the opportunity this summer to study abroad in Kosovo through the Rochester Institute of Technology’s Kosovo Peace and Conflict Summer Program. The sophomore international affairs and political science double major, of Buxton, Maine, spent a month in Kosovo, taking classes and attending seminars on topics like the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, […]
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Six University of Maine students were part of a group of eight students who interned this summer with the Atlantic Salmon Ecosystems Research Team, part of the NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center based at the Woods Hole Laboratory on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and the Maine Field Station in Orono. The students worked on rivers, at […]
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“My roots are, and will always remain, in the shadow of Katahdin, in Millinocket,” says Andrea Steward. And this summer she had the chance to expand on those roots with global outreach through a social work practicum with Democracy International in Bethesda, Maryland before graduating in August with a master’s degree in social work. Democracy […]
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