Editor’s note: Story updated April 20. Allyson Eslin of Bangor has been named the valedictorian and Joshua Patnaude of Sanford the salutatorian at the University of Maine for 2017. Between them, the two top students will receive a total of four degrees at UMaine’s 215th Commencement in Harold Alfond Sports Arena May 13. Eslin, who […]
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University of Maine Ph.D. student Brie Berry’s interest in sustainability was sparked during the two years she spent in a rural area of the West African Republic of Mali as a Peace Corps volunteer. “I joined the Peace Corps to experience what it was like to live in another place with a very different culture,” […]
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When Kyle Goupille first decided that he wanted to play an instrument, he chose the trombone. But he was in fifth grade and at that time, too short to reach all the slide positions on the trombone. “My mother wisely pointed out that there are just three valves on the trumpet — and (that I […]
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University of Maine ROTC cadet Victoria Hernandez’s role models are her parents. Her father immigrated to the U.S. from Honduras in the late 1980s. Her mother followed a few years later. Successfully building a better life as her parents did for the family requires discipline, focus and faith. Hernandez found her own version of the […]
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As president of the University of Maine Class of 2017, Maine Business School senior Devin Greenlaw is helping his classmates leave their mark on their soon-to-be alma mater. The class is raising $10,000 to endow a scholarship fund in the University of Maine Foundation to benefit the descendents of Class of 2017. “Our children and […]
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Leadership has long been part of the student experience for University of Maine senior Kevin Bois. At Westbrook High School, Bois was involved in student government and Key Club. At UMaine, he took his leadership to another level. For the past four years, Bois has served in University of Maine Student Government. And for the […]
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For second-year University of Maine student Nina Mahaleris from Augusta, Maine, UMaine was close to home and provided generous financial aid. Best of all, after the first semester, she also found all the learning and engagement opportunities she desired in the UMaine student experience. “It definitely surprised me,” says Mahaleris, a double major in journalism […]
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The Maine forest products industry has been a part of Walker Day’s life for as long as he can remember. Growing up in the small western Maine town of Lovell, Day watched as his father and grandfather spent the majority of their professional careers in forestry. “They both had a very big impact on how […]
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MeiWa Li has her sights set on a career in health care services. The University of Maine junior from Hong Kong is an accounting major who interned at athenahealth last summer in Belfast. The fast-growing company, which provides cloud-based services for managing electronic medical records, medical billing, patient engagement and care coordination, assigned Li to […]
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Brady Davis, a University of Maine senior in the Maine Business School and Honors College, was awarded a Mitchell Scholarship upon graduating from Freeport High School in 2013. At UMaine, Davis became involved with the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions by way of the Honors College’s Sustainable Food Systems Research Collaborative project, […]
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