Bear Pair Jeffrey Rogers ‘16 and Emma Hutchinson Rogers ‘19 have been loyal and active members of the President’s Club since 2020 by utilizing the recent alumni introductory rate program. While at UMaine, Emma excelled as an Honors College student, majored in English, and held the position of Vice President for All Maine Women and President of the Honors College Student Advisory Board. Meanwhile, Jeff pursued a finance and financial economics double major and actively participated in Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. He also served as the President of the Student Portfolio Investment Fund (SPIFFY) and President of the Senior Skulls, an organization in which he continues to contribute as a member of the Alumni Interest Group Board of Directors. Currently, Jeff is a member of the UMAA Board of Directors, UMACSM Board of Directors, and previously served as President of Black Bears of Portland.

Gifts from colleagues, family, and friends in memory of Jennifer Gutmann Tyne, the late faculty member of UMaine’s Math department, have grown into an endowed scholarship that will support undergraduate students studying math at UMaine with preference for graduates of Orono High School and students with a track record of service to others, especially the indigenous communities.

Over her 20-year teaching career, Jennifer impacted the growth and development of a generation of students and earned the Presidential Teaching Award in 2019, the highest teaching award at the University of Maine. This scholarship reflects Jen’s strength, commitment, compassion, love, and service to all which she modeled throughout her lifetime.

This semester, the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center (MHC) welcomes four new undergraduate research fellows: Chapman “Chappy” Hall, Iris Loehr, Sarah Renee Ozlanski and Katherine Ritche. This new cohort will join current fellows Paige Allen, Sebastien Chamberlain, Abigail Roberts and Willow Wind. 

MHC undergraduate fellows receive an award of up to $8,000 over the course of two semesters to pursue an independent research or creative project in the humanities in collaboration with a faculty member. The awards are supported through the Clement and Linda McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fund created in 2010 by generous donors Clement ’64 and Linda McGillicuddy and four indiviual awards: Sandra Merrill Peters and John G. Peters Humanities Fellowship Fund, Kathy Olmstead’s Echoes of Maine Humanities Fellowship Fund, Liam Rioridan Humanities Fellowship Fund, and David ’64, ’67G and Alison ’71 Wiggin Humanities Fellowship. These funds are held at the University of Maine Foundation.