Black Bear profiles

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Isaiah Bedsole: Internship teaches aspiring marketer crucial SEO skills

While Isaiah Bedsole loved learning about marine science, he felt the tug toward marketing during his career at UMaine. He dove into completing a marketing minor in the Maine Business School and became enthralled with Search Engine Optimization (SEO). His summer internship with Mainely SEO gave him applicable skills for a future career in marketing. […]

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Angelina Buzzelli: Addressing affordable housing shortage through additive manufacturing

Angelina Buzzelli, a University of Maine MBA student and Graduate Assistant at the UMaine Advanced Structures and Composites Center, is contributing research at the national level to address the shortage of affordable housing in the U.S. through innovative 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, technology. Buzzelli recently shared her research with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and […]

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Nico Soucy

Nico Soucy: Finance student lands NYC internship

During the summer of 2021, Nico Soucy got a little bit closer to his dream of living and working in New York City. The Finance and Financial Economics double major from Sabattus, Maine, landed a summer internship in the Big Apple with WOW Payments. Their offices are located in the heart of New York’s Financial District. […]

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Brian Sanchez

Brian Sanchez: Pathways graduate excels in NROTC, engineering

Brian Sanchez, a first-generation college student at the University of Maine, 3,000 miles from his home in Soledad, California, became a top performer in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) and in the Department of Mechanical Engineering through grit and a determination to succeed.  Sanchez, now a junior and midshipman third class, joined UMaine […]

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Rachel Breault and Caitlin Galvin

Rachel Breault and Caitlin Galvin: Higher education grad students spend summer gaining valuable work experience 

Last spring, Caitlin Galvin was pretty stressed. A graduate student in the University of Maine’s student development in higher education master’s program, she was applying for a summer internship through NODA, the national Association for Orientation, Transition, and Retention in Higher Education.  “It’s very competitive,” says Galvin of Pawling, New York. “Many schools sign up […]

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Cameron Houde: Insuring the future

Cameron Houde, a management and marketing double major from Dayton, Maine, spent the summer as part of the Cross Insurance Emerging Risk Management Trainee Program. Based in Portland, Maine, the paid 10-week summer program is open to full-time students entering their junior or senior year. Read Houde’s story online. Contact: Melanie Brooks, melanie.brooks@maine.edu

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Solomon Iluyomade

Solomon Iluyomade: Banking internship benefits

Solomon “Solly” Iluyomade is a MaineMBA student from London, England. He is spending the summer as a product management and digital banking intern at Bangor Savings Bank. He’s putting his finance and business analytics skills to work at the bank’s waterfront Bangor location. A 2021 graduate of the Maine Business School and former UMaine basketball […]

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Nicholas Martinez

Nicholas Martinez: Returning to college to help others like him

A speech language pathologist changed Nicholas Martinez’s life. Now he’s going to do the same for others. When Martinez was a child growing up in Pleasant Point, Maine, a speech language pathologist worked with him to manage his stuttering disorder. The experience inspired him to pursue a master’s degree in communication sciences and disorders at […]

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Peg Ayer, Carole Goldberg and Yvette Hule

Carole Goldberg: A career in education, response services

Carole Goldberg (‘66) grew up in Windham, Maine, and was most interested in playing softball, basketball and other sports. Fortunately, she had a coach, Marguerite L. “Peg” Ayer (B.S., ‘54; M.Ed. ‘61), who had graduated from the University of Maine and encouraged Goldberg to enroll. After graduating from UMaine, Goldberg traveled the world, first as […]

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