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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Thröstur Eysteinsson spent his childhood exploring Iceland’s bountiful natural world. His grandfathers were active volunteers in the country’s forestry societies, which he later joined while working as a high school science teacher. As he learned more about the history of forestry in Iceland, his interest grew. He quit his job as a teacher and enrolled […]
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Melissa Garand of Manchester, Maine interned abroad in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria this summer, working full time as a graduate international student services intern at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG). “As with many others my age, I grew up during the years of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and general American involvement in the greater Middle […]
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Rachel Hobbs and J. Andrew Cormier spent their summers as interns at the Challenger Learning Center of Maine in Bangor, working with youth in STEM-focused summer camp programs with the hope of encouraging campers to aspire to higher education and careers in these fields. Hobbs, of Presque Isle, Maine, is a fifth-year secondary education major […]
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Emma Pooler thrives on making a difference. And that’s what she did last spring as a legal intern for the Child Protection Unit (CPU) at the Office of the Maine Attorney General in Bangor, helping represent the Department of Health and Human Services and caseworkers for child protection and custody cases. “I was really lucky […]
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Hadley White of Goffstown, New Hampshire, spent her summer in Presque Isle working as a resident director and French instructor for Upward Bound, a program that helps first-generation and low-income college-bound high school students succeed in higher education. The fourth-year secondary education and French student with a minor in Franco-American studies loved the challenges of […]
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Caleigh Charlebois of South China, Maine spent her summer at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, researching variation in mechanisms of DNA inheritance. “I am fascinated by the way that the tiny machineries of life lead to bigger machineries, and the implications of that on an organismal level,” says Charlebois, a zoology major who also […]
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Tyler-Ann Harris of Indian Island, Maine had the chance this summer to work with the International Rescue Committee in Sacramento, California as a Volunteer Coordination and In-Kind Donation Intern. “I have a passion for working with systems, particularly systems that are based in human sciences. Having a career of getting to make positive, lasting changes […]
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