Abby Cadorette, a Senior Ecology and Environmental Science major at UMaine, is grateful for the scholarships that have helped her during her time at UMaine. She explained that “[My scholarships] alleviated the stress of covering college costs, and has allowed me to...

While working part-time on farms and in greenhouses, University of Maine senior Ross Sousa of Somerset, Massachusetts learned firsthand how disease can ruin crops. Memories of farmers’ plight, combined with a passion for plant pathology and finding more sustainable...

Our student gratitude story this week features Crispin Kamundala, a 4th-year political science student with a double minor in legal studies and foreign affairs. He received the John M. Nickerson scholarship. The John Mitchell Nickerson University of Maine Memorial...

Chanthu Millay’s art is raw and intimate: a technicolor self-portrait in painstaking detail, a metal sculpture comprised of pieces of her old prosthetic leg, a ceramic sculpture depicting the emotions she experienced as her family’s lone survivor of the violent Khmer...

Makaila Bailey, a student in the Environmental Horticulture Program, has had a significant impact on our campus. This past summer, she started working to propagate the Campana elm tree, which lived next to Hitchner Hall for over 150 years. Before it had to be removed...

Louis Rosenthall has possessed a desire to help other people since he was young. He comes from a family of nurses, and has seen how hard nurses work to make a positive difference. By the time Louis was a freshman in high school, he knew that he wanted to be a part of...