UMaine News

Hometown: Hampden, Maine Abby Elkins is a third-year elementary education student interning with EPSCoR this summer. “I’ve always loved going to school and had a passion for learning. My teachers always inspired me, and I wanted to be able to give back and teach future generations. I love helping others and teaching new things. This […]

Hometown: Westchester County, New York Sara Shelley is a rising senior wildlife ecology major. She’s considering a career working to conserve endangered species. She wants to spread awareness about the importance of all species and educate the public about ways it can help. Shelley’s a member of the UMaine Dance Team and has taken supplies […]

Hometown: Portsmouth, Rhode Island Kathleen Brown is a rising senior majoring in ecology and environmental sciences. She studied in Greenland and Iceland in spring 2018 through a University of Maine and School for International Training (SIT) scholarship. Brown investigated the ecological impact of invasive flatfish at the University of Iceland’s Research Centre in the Westfjords, […]

Hometown: Poland, Maine Hope Kohtala, a parks, recreation and tourism student, who will graduate in 2019, just spent a semester in Northern Wales. “Living in Northern Wales was an amazing experience for me. It not only opened up new opportunities, such as learning a new language or playing a new sport called Gaelic football, but […]

Hometown: Hampden, Maine Third-year ecology and environmental sciences student Abigayl Novak, who has a dual concentration in ecosystem ecology and sustainability, environmental policy and natural resource management, is a summer lab technician intern in Alicyn Smart’s new Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab. “My passion is for plant physiology with a focus on plant hormones, but in […]

Hometown: Frenchville, Maine Food science and human nutrition student Emily Lavertu is on a mission to help others with Type 1 diabetes like herself. She is the junior camp coordinator at Cary Medical Center’s Camp Adventure, a camp for Type 1 diabetics ages 13–17. Emily plans to graduate in 2020, and her goal is to […]

Hometown: Dumfries, Virginia Logan Sauer, a wildlife ecology student, enjoys being in the wilderness and learning about the world around him and organisms in it. He just returned from a semester in Townsville in Queensland, Australia (where this photo was taken) through International Studies Abroad. “We met an Aboriginal man and went through this whole […]

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Yarmouth, Maine In 2015, Nicholas Richmond graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Earth sciences and now he’s pursuing a master’s in Earth sciences in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences. Richmond won the American Geophysical Union’s 2018 Spring Virtual Poster Showcase for his research on 3-D bedrock channel evolution. “The more we learn […]

Hometown: Clifton Park, New York Danielle St-Pierre graduated in May with a degree in food science and a minor in chemistry. She is enrolled in an accelerated Master of Science food science program at UMaine. “I enjoy studying complex interactions between different compounds in food. This is part of what drew me to study kombucha (fermented, effervescent […]

Hometown: Windham, Maine Nursing major and four-time National Collegiate Wrestling Association champion Samantha Frank marched at Commencement in May. She recently concluded her career as a Black Bear grappler with a 44–0 record. “Wrestling is a good practice run for life. Nursing is really hard. The biggest thing for me is I have strong faith […]