Commencement

Connor Smart

Connor Smart: UMaine salutatorian and top student in Maine Business School

Connor Smart of Lincoln, Maine has been named the 2016 University of Maine salutatorian and the Outstanding Graduating Student in the Maine Business School. The honors student double majored in accounting and finance, and received academic achievement awards in business and accounting. Smart was the 2012 valedictorian of Mattanawcook Academy. In the spring 2015 semester, Smart […]

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Mosiac on the floor of UMaine's Buchanan Alumni House

Roscoe named 2016 Distinguished Maine Professor

University of Maine anthropologist Paul “Jim” Roscoe has been named the 2016 Distinguished Maine Professor by the University of Maine Alumni Association. Roscoe, a world-renowned leader in cultural anthropology, is a professor of anthropology, and a cooperating professor in UMaine’s Climate Change Institute and the School of Policy and International Affairs. Sponsored by UMaine’s classes […]

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UMaine's valedictorian and salutatorian medals

UMaine’s 2016 Valedictorian and Salutatorian

Nicholas Fried of Millerstown, Pennsylvania, is the 2016 University of Maine valedictorian and Connor Smart of Lincoln, Maine, is the salutatorian. The honors students will receive their degrees at UMaine’s 214th Commencement in Harold Alfond Sports Arena May 14. Fried majored in animal and veterinary sciences, with a minor in chemistry. This fall, he will […]

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Annabelle Wilson

Annabelle Wilson: A runner with her sights set on teaching in Maine

Annabelle Wilson did not take the well-traveled path to the University of Maine. Originally from Geelong in southern Australia, she was recruited to run cross country and track for the Black Bears. So how does a young woman from a “coastal surfing area” more than 10,000 miles from Orono like it here? “I’ve loved Maine,” […]

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Liz Wood

Liz Wood: On course and full speed ahead

When Liz Wood was young she sped up and down her Virginia driveway in her battery-powered Barbie Jeep. The 22-year-old biology major with a premed concentration and captain of the women’s basketball team is still a driving force. The last four years, two of her athletic goals included an America East conference playoff title and […]

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Fogler Library in fall

Ambassador Pamela White to give UMaine Commencement address, to receive honorary degree with community leader Leonard Minsky

United States diplomat Pamela White, the former ambassador to Haiti and The Gambia, will deliver this year’s Commencement address at the University of Maine on May 14. She and another UMaine alumnus, Leonard Minsky, community leader and retired president of Superior Paper Products Inc., will be awarded honorary doctorates as part of UMaine’s 214th Commencement. […]

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Jade McGuire

Jade McGuire: Education major passionate about travel, volunteering

This time last year, Jade McGuire was living aboard a cruise ship with 600 other college students from across the country as part of a Semester at Sea program that took her to more than a dozen countries spanning four continents. McGuire, a fourth-year University of Maine elementary education major and honors student from Augusta, […]

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Immediate Family to Hold Nine Degrees from UMaine Following Commencement

When Margaret McCollough graduates from the University of Maine at the institution’s 213th Commencement on May 9, her immediate family will hold nine degrees from the university. McCollough, who will earn a bachelor’s degree in sustainable agriculture, is the daughter of Catherine Elliott and Mark McCollough of Hampden, who met at UMaine in the 1980s. […]

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