Hometown: Orrington, Maine After graduating with a marine science degree from Maine Maritime Academy, Jaelee Vanidestine headed to Alaska, where she collected data for commercial stock assessments for the International Pacific Halibut Commission. Seeking additional knowledge and skills, Vanidestine returned to Maine to earn a Professional Science Master’s (PSM) degree in marine sciences. “I applied […]
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Hometown: Voorhees, New Jersey Alex Bromley, a junior food science and human nutrition major, traveled this past summer to Viterbo, Italy, where she took professor Amy Blackstone’s Sociology of Food course. She engaged in a cross-cultural comparison of social, political, economic and environmental dimensions of food, focusing on contemporary issues, practices and debates in Italy […]
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Hometown: Holden, Maine Meet Grace Smith of Holden, Maine, who was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina and moved to Maine at age 8. This summer, the junior molecular and cellular biology and biochemistry double major with a minor in computer science, who also is in the Honors College, interned at the Novartis Institute for […]
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Eben Lenfest, a senior from Smithfield, Maine, majors in mechanical engineering and minors in ocean and marine engineering and robotics. Last summer, as a result of working with assistant professor Andrew Goupee at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, he secured an internship at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. He worked on […]
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Hometown: Monmouth, Maine This summer, a senior chemistry major Angus Koller interned in the American Chemical Society Summer School in Nuclear and Radiochemistry at San Jose State University, and was named the program’s Outstanding Student. “I love chemistry because I’ve always been curious about the world around me, and chemistry gives us an amazing insight into […]
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Balancing a variety of classes is challenging — especially across three different schools, and with a job on the side. Zoe Vittum, a junior at Brewer High School, takes classes there as well as through the Early College program at the University of Maine and its equivalent at Husson University. After finishing the majority of […]
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Hometown: Hampden, Maine Sarah Boomer, a senior nursing major who will graduate in December plans to work in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or as a labor and delivery nurse. She hopes to find a job in the Portland or Bangor area. “Nursing is in my blood. My mom is a neonatal nurse practitioner, […]
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Hometown: Scituate, Massachusetts Alex Kenney, a sophomore music education major with a vocal concentration, was born in Vienna, Austria. He’s also lived in Russia and Kazakhstan. This summer, Kenney interned at the Latvian Academy of Culture through the American Latvian Association in Riga, Latvia. “Music has been a part of me my whole life. Ever […]
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Lt. Col. Jon Velishka takes another sip of coffee. When giving a 9 a.m. lecture to University of Maine graduate students on complex issues of national security and foreign policy, it helps to be well caffeinated. “You have to come back to a framework,” Velishka tells the class. “You have to come back to something […]
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Hometown: Milford, Connecticut Max Mauro is a junior environmental sciences major with a concentration in sustainability, environmental policy, and natural resource management. This summer, when he interned at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration campus in Milford, he shared a bit about working on “The GoPro Project,” which involved monitoring fish activity in the Long […]
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