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Iaryna Iasenytska

Iaryna Iasenytska: Outstanding Graduating International Student

Iaryna Iasenytska of Kyiv, Ukraine is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the Honors College. She is an international affairs major with a concentration in international security, with minors in Spanish and in legal studies. Her honors thesis is “One-Eyed Man and the Wicked Boar.” Last year, Iasenytska was a research assistant with the Marine […]

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Jordan Miner

Jordan Miner: Outstanding Graduating Student

Jordan Miner of East Baldwin, Maine is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Engineering. She is a biomedical engineering major with minors in electrical engineering and bioinstrumentation. Miner is a Maine Top Scholar who received two fellowships from the Center for Undergraduate Research to study Duchenne muscular dystrophy. She has been a student […]

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Miranda Snyder

Miranda Snyder: Outstanding Graduating Student

Miranda Snyder of Brimfield, Massachusetts is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Education and Human Development. The secondary education major with a concentration in English received highest honors for her thesis completed in December, “How Alumnae of a Middle and High School Feminist Organizations Perceive Their Involvement Related to Their Academic Self-Concept.” Snyder […]

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Fanny Wadling

Fanny Wadling: Outstanding Graduating International Student

Fanny Wadling of Nacka, Sweden is the Outstanding Graduating International Student for the second consecutive year — last year in the College of Education and Human Development; this year in the Maine Business School. In 2020, she received a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology and physical education, with a minor in business administration, and a concentration […]

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Anna Schumann

Anna Schumann: Outstanding Graduating International Student

Anna Schumann of Moers, Germany is the Outstanding Graduating International Student in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture. Schumann will receive a bachelor’s degree in molecular and cellular biology, with a double major in biochemistry and a minor in microbiology. The Presidential Scholar is captain of UMaine’s track and field team, competing in […]

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Caroline Strolic

Caroline Strolic: Outstanding Graduating Student

Caroline Strolic of Phoenix, Arizona is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She is an honors student majoring in art history with a minor in history. A member of the women’s swimming and diving team, Strolic has been team captain for the past two years, and a member of […]

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VillageSoup interviews West, UMaine valedictorian

VillageSoup talked with Bailey West, University of Maine valedictorian, about how a high school biology class motivated her interest in “the cellular and molecular underpinnings of human health and disease.”  West, a biochemistry major, will enter a doctoral program at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the fall.

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Bailey West

Bailey West: UMaine 2021 Valedictorian and Outstanding Graduating Student

Bailey West of Stockton Springs is the 2021 Valedictorian and the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, and in the Honors College. The biochemistry major and honors student is a Maine Top Scholar.  Her numerous honors include the 2021 Society of Toxicology Undergraduate Research Award and the George J. […]

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Drew Bennett

Drew Bennett: UMaine 2021 salutatorian

Drew Bennett of Brewer is the University of Maine 2021 salutatorian. Bennett is a mechanical engineering major with a minor in robotics. He has received Mid-South Engineering scholarships and the Thomas P. Hosmer Scholarship.  Throughout his time on campus, Bennett has been an undergraduate research assistant in the Advanced Manufacturing Center. Last year, he also […]

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