For Gabriela Constantin, a second-year student from Romania, one of the best things about her chemical engineering major is the opportunity to gain work experience as part of her studies. Every October, companies recruit students through the College of Engineering’s Co-op Program. Constantin got an offer to spend the fall 2017 and summer 2018 working […]
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Miranda Roberts of Hermon, Maine spent five weeks last summer working in the office of a member of the Canadian Parliament. The only UMaine student to receive last year’s Canadian Parliamentary Internship, Roberts traveled to Ottawa with about 30 students from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, which partnered with UMaine for the program. From May 8 […]
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Cassie Vaillancourt ’12 (MBA) is using her business degree in the forest products industry. Vaillancourt, who earned a bachelor’s degree in forestry from the University of Maine in 2010, works as an operations planner in the supply chain department at Sappi North America in Skowhegan. “I am responsible for planning production of the mill’s three […]
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When Samuel Borer isn’t choreographing the University of Maine’s next School of Performing Arts dance performance, running an ultramarathon, protecting the nation from weapons of mass destruction or figuring out new ways to detect one of the physical world’s most elusive subatomic particles, he’s probably thinking about space exploration. Borer has wanted to be an […]
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Growing up in New York City, Zikomo Barr had no notion that he’d one day end up in Maine, pursuing a degree and career in post-secondary student affairs. “It’s not an industry or a field that you aspire to go into when you go to college. It’s something that you stumble upon or realize that […]
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Only months after completing his bachelor’s degree at Colby College and fresh from a stint as a field technician for the National Aquatic Monitoring Center based in Utah, Andrew Newcomb had no immediate plans to pursue a post-graduate degree. Until, that is, he got wind of a Ph.D. research assistant position at UMaine as part […]
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Outside her childhood home in Boulder, Colorado, Kimberley Rain Miner used to cover one eye to block from her sight the utility box located among trees and the boulders dropped by glaciers. Miner, now an Earth and climate sciences Ph.D. student at the University of Maine, imagined being in a completely natural environment. And for […]
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Colin Bosma gained perspective growing up at an elevation of 8,230 feet in the Rockies in Nederland, Colorado. Its motto: Life is better up here. And he has developed mindfulness — a judgment-free, moment-to-moment awareness of his present thoughts, sensations and environment — through his study of psychology. Mindfulness is central to research Bosma is […]
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This summer, Olivia Conrad, a fourth-year student from Yarmouth, Maine, majoring in food science and human nutrition, landed a sweet internship at one of Maine’s premier gelato companies. Conrad was the food safety intern at the Gelato Fiasco Flavor Foundry in Brunswick, Maine, where pints are produced, packed and shipped nationwide. She assisted the company […]
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University of Maine alumnus Cary James has been teaching chemistry at Bangor High School (BHS) for 17 years, and currently serves as the head of the school’s science and technology department. He has received numerous distinguished teaching awards, and his students have been recognized internationally for their academic achievements and innovations in the STEM fields. […]
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